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General Meeting February 2025
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker - Professor Ary Hoffmann AC
Professor Hoffmann will be giving a talk on the “Translocation of Matchstick Grasshoppers into Urban Environments”.
Professor Ary Anthony Hoffmann AC is an Australian entomologist and geneticist who is the chair of ecological genetics and Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Annual General Meeting April 2024
This is the Entomological Society of Victoria Annual General Meeting for 2025.
The AGM will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker - Dr Andrew Wootton
Andrew will giving an talk on Varroa Mite and the challenges faced by the Australian Bee Industry.
Andrew is an accomplished Master Beekeeper certified by the Eastern Apicultural Society of North America. He serves as an executive committee member of the Victorian Apiarists Association (VAA) is also an active member of the State Quarantine Response Team (SQRT) and has participated in multiple deployments with Agriculture Victoria and the NSW Department of Primary Industries to manage the Varroa mite incursion in Australia.
General Meeting June 2025
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker - Dr Richard Marchant
Richard will be giving a talk on “Aquatic insects in the diet of platypus”.
Richard is a stream ecologist with most interest in the ecology of benthic inverterbates, particulalrly aquatic insects. He have studied streams and rivers in many parts of Victoria, and southern NSW and has been a curator and senior curator at Museum Victoria since 1981.
General Meeting August 2025
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker - Members Night (speakers list to follow!!)
General Meeting October 2025
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker - Dr Gunter Maywald
Gunter will be giving a talk on “The biology and systematics of the eucalypt leaf beetle genus Trachymela”.
Gunter is an expert on Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) and boasts an amazing collection comprised of over 5000 specimens of Trachymela, 3500 Paropsisterna, 2000 Paropsis, plus small numbers of other paropsine genera. Nearly all the specimens were collected by Gunter during his trips across Australia, including Western Australia and Tasmania, and with the bulk of the samples from Queensland and New South Wales.
General Meeting October 2024
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
If you wish to present an item at the Members' Forum at this meeting, please advise the Secretary
Tonight we have two items on the agenda
Speaker - Member Jeni Kalowsky
Jenny will be presenting on the “Biology of Asaropoda albiceps (Rayment)”, Amegilla Anthophorid bees, which will cover pollination on mistletoes, roosting behaviour of males, nesting females in the soil, natural enemies and their life cycle
2. “Members Night” - Our amazing Society members will be giving talks on topics that interest them.
General Meeting August 2024
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.
Speaker: Mengjie Jin
Mengjie will be presenting on her PhD project on the phylogeny and taxonomy of Australian Prioninae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), and will also be providing an introduction on her recent book - Australian Longhorn Beetles volume III.
Mengjie Jin obtained her PhD in Zoology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2020. Prior to that, she was a visiting student at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, from 2015 to 2020, working on phylogeny and taxonomy of Australian longhorn beetles (Prioninae and Cerambycinae).
General Meeting June 2024
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom
An email will be sent to member with all the details (including a Zoom link) prior to the meeting.
Pre meeting dinner 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book. If you wish to present an item at the Members' Forum at this meeting, please advise the Secretary
Speaker: Wendy Clark
Wendy’s talk is “Macro Photography Using Natural Light'.
Wendy has been a professional photographer for 30 years and has been teaching photography for the past 10 years via her business – ‘Master Your Camera’, First and foremost Wendy is a Field Naturalist with a love of all things in Nature, and her particular passion is for invertebrates which she loves to photograph. She has been a member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria for 50 years, including being President at one time.
Annual General Meeting April 2024
This is the Entomological Society of Victoria Annual General Meeting for 2024.
The AGM will be will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: Dr Nick Porch from Deakin University
He will be making a talk on the recent paper that he co-authored regarding impacts to rainforest litter invertebrates caused by the 2019-2020 giigafires https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aec.13375)
General Meeting February 2024
The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: Gio Fitzpatrick
Gio will be coming along to talk about the amazing transformation taking place at Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve, which is the old Elsternwick Park Golf Course. The golf course is being transformed back into a wetlands, which is what the area was like before colinisation
General Meeting October 2023
The members meeting will be held via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: John Walter from the Upper Campaspe Landcare Network.
John will be giving a presentation on “Pollinator Corridors - Pathways to Greater Diversity".
Pollinator corridors are vital as they promote biodiversity, support crop pollination, enhance genetic diversity, offer recreational and educational value, and ultimately contribute to human well-being by safeguarding food production and ecosystem health.
General Meeting August 2023
The members meeting will be held via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Tonight is a “Members Night” where our amazing Society members will be giving talks on topics that interest them. Should be an amazing set of presentations.
General Meeting June 2023
The members meeting will be held via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: Cormac Farrell, Head Beekeeper at the Parliament of Australia.
Cormac will be giving a presentation on "Beekeeping at the Australian Parliament".
Annual General Meeting April 2023
This is the Entomological Society of Victoria Annual General Meeting for 2023.
The AGM will be held via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: Professor Seirian Sumner from University College London.
She will be making a talk on “The Secret World of Wasps”.
General Meeting February 2023
The members meeting will be held via Zoom.
A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.
Speaker: Ying Luo from ANU.
She is studying a group of leaf mining micro-moths (Gracillariidae), and investigating their host plant usage and diversity! Her presentation will be on “Rediscovering leaf mining insects in Australia”.