Events:
Regular Meetings
ESQ general meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month* at 1pm at the Ecoscience Precinct in Dutton Park, Brisbane (see maps below). There is no need to sign in to the ground floor Seminar Room 1.
There is limited street parking available so Public transport is recommended. Visitors are always welcome.
*except January, February and July
Next meeting: No regular meeting in October...Instead we are having a social event!
Night at the Museum: 10 October 2023 at 5:30-7:30pm
Instead of our regular meeting, we are having a special evening event for members with canapes and drinks, and a chance to see two new insect exhibits at the Queensland Museum. To coincide with our 100 years celebration, the Queensland Museum has developed a new insect exhibition entitled "Insect Agency". The exhibit explores the wide variety of ways that insects benefit the planet and us. From maintaining healthy ecosystems, pollinating our crops, controlling pests, providing inspiration for new technologies and perhaps holding the key to our food security, the exhibition will spread the 'good news' about insects. The exhibition will be a visual feast and include over 1700 insect specimens from around the Australia and the world. Almost one hundred high resolution, intricately detailed images will adorn the exhibit, enabling the visitor to 'look closer' at even the most common insects. Members will also have the chance to see the new "The Butterfly Man of Kuranda: The Dodd Collection" exhibit. Join us for an evening of wonderment!
This is a ticketed event, $10 per person. Tickets available from Eventbrite.
BugCatch :
“Bug-Catch” is a program of collecting trips run by the Entomological Society of Queensland. The object of the trips is to utilise the specialist insect collecting and identification skills of Society members to assist in compiling lists of invertebrates for protected areas (National Parks, Forest Reserves, State Forests, etc), in addition to sharing knowledge with other members. Members are asked to supply lists of species collected, for use in faunal databases.
Past Bug-Catches have been held at Bribie Island National Park, Koala Bushlands Burbank, Beerwah State Forest, Franke Scrub, D'Aguilar National Park, Stockyard Creek, Springbrook/Ankida Nature Reserve, and most recently the QTFN Aroona Homestead.
Past Bug-Catches:
Aroona BugCatch March 2019: The Queensland Trust for Nature Aroona property lies to the west of Ipswich in the Little Liverpool Range.
Springbrook BugCatch: November 2016: Springbrook Plateau. Springbrook is a high wet tableland lying between Lamington and the Gold Coast and is about 90 minutes drive from Brisbane on good roads. We were guests of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society at their Ankida property which has several hundred hectares of rainforest with running creeks and waterfalls.
Stockyard Creek BugCatch January 2016 Report...
During the Stockyard Creek BugCatch weekend, Geoff Monteith and Kathy Ebert ran a workshop for ESQ members and local landholders on how to survey dung beetles. Landowners and some ESQ members trapped dung beetles in the district and all catches were later combined and sorted in Brisbane. These BugCatch results, when combined with the rest of the survey, resulted in almost 4000 specimens of 35 different species from 60 different sample sites. All species were photographed and the data were used to plot detailed distribution maps for each species. The overall report gives valuable feedback to the local landowners on the diversity on their properties, as well as giving them the opportunity to see the benefits of participating in a collaborative scientific survey exercise. The results of the survey are available at the following link:
A survey of the dung beetles from the Upper Lockyer Valley (70MB)
Crohamhurst BugCatch November 2015 Report....
Mt Glorious BugCatch September 2014 Report...
Mt Mee BugCatch March 2014 Report...
Franke Scrub BugCatch October 2013 Report...
Other external events and conferences
Bugs Alive Conference: Invertebrate education, display, husbandry and conservation, 1-4 December, Kuranda, Far North Queensland
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ICE 2024 Kyoto, XXVII International Congress of Entomology: 25-30 August 2024 in Kyoto Japan
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