The ESBC serves professional entomologists, amateurs, educators all those with interest in entomology in BC and elsewhere. 🦋: @entsocbc.bsky.social
- Tweets1.2K
- Following170
- Followers1.9K
- Likes315
ALT Landscape photo with farm equipment in foreground and the Vaseux Cliffs in the background.
ALT Cover of Boreus, Newsletter of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, January 2026 Vol. 45(2) Cover Photographs Emerald Ash Borer damage to white ash wood found in 2025 by Troy Kimoto and the Canadian Forest Service (Pacific and Great Lakes Forestry Centre). 1. Agrilus planipennis larval galleries and exit holes via visual survey, Fraxinus sp. Surrey, BC, Troy Kimoto 2. Agrilus planipennis galleries via branch sampling, Fraxinus sp. Vancouver, BC, Troy Kimoto
ALT Composite photo showing incoming president Michelle Tseng (left) and outgoing president Michelle Franklin (right) with award winners at the 2025 ESBC meeting. Award winners from left to right: Nathan Earley, Hannah Friesen, Bennett Klinger, Julie Sieg (not pictured)
ALT Program Title Page: BETTER TOGETHER CELEBRATING PARTNERSHIPS FROM MICRO TO MACRO Entomological Society of British Columbia 2025 Conference and AGM Page also shows a stylized drawing of a blue darner dragonfly
ALT A new entomological society of British Columbia (ESBC) t-shirt design. The design features a adult dragonfly perched on cattail, and below the water a dragonfly nymph perches on the same cattail. Watching from behind a rock is a giant waterbug.
ALT Attendees of the 2024 ESBC meeting seated in a conference room watching one of many scientific presentations.
ALT Cover of Boreus, Newsletter of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, September 2025 Vol. 45(1)
ALT The Entomological Society of British Columbia and the University of British Columbia’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest invite you to participate in an Insect BioBlitz event Where: Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Maple Ridge, British Columbia. See map below for the designated survey area. Parking is available at the main entrance to the Research Forest. Directions are available at: https://www.mkrf.forestry.ubc.ca/about/directions/ Full details at: https://t.co/d25roT2Z0e When: 9 AM–6 PM on Saturday July 5th and Sunday July 6th, 2025. Observers may participate for any amount of time during the event hours. There is a trail map of the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest below. Below the map are logos for Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and the ESBC.
ALT The Entomological Society of British Columbia and the University of British Columbia’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest invite you to participate in an Insect BioBlitz event Where: Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Maple Ridge, British Columbia. See map below for the designated survey area. Parking is available at the main entrance to the Research Forest. Directions are available at: https://www.mkrf.forestry.ubc.ca/about/directions/ When: 9 AM–6 PM on Saturday July 5th and Sunday July 6th, 2025. Observers may participate for any amount of time during the event hours. How: Participants join the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Insect BioBlitz iNaturalist project at: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/malcolm-knapp- research-forest-insect-bioblitz and upload observations of insects and other arthropods. Contact: [email protected] There is a trail map of the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest below. Below the map are logos for Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and the ESBC.
ALT Uplands Park Insect BioBlitz Day: Bug Walk Sunday June 22nd, 1:30 pm Refreshments 1-3:30 pm Night: Light Sheet Saturday June 21st, 10 pm - midnight Meet at the Beach Drive entrance to Cattle Point Image of a treehopper adults and nymphs photo credit: Charles Van Arsdall Join the project on iNaturalist all weekend long! June 20-22 QR code linking to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/uplands-park-insect-bioblitz-june-2025 Logo for Friends of Uplands Park Logo for CICADA UVIC
ALT Join Us Online! April 8, 2025 12 - 1 pm PST. There are approximately 37-39 bumble bee species in British Columbia, and most are wide-ranging and live in a variety of habitats across the vast provincial landscape. This project aims to collect quantitative data that can be used to assess the conservation status of all bumble bees in the province. Data collection involves establishing long term (> 10 years) bumble bee monitoring routes throughout the province, and concurrently build a community of trained volunteers who, once per year, would survey these routes within the areas they live and work. In 2022, 2023, & 2024 we asked government staff to participate in this community bumble bee monitoring project. Join us to hear about these and other exciting results and how you can join Team Bee for one day of surveys, learn about bees and their threats, and help survey bumble bees during the summer of 2025.