Keep up to date with events
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.
Speaker: Wendy Clark
Wendy is from “master Your Camera” and is a photography teacher. She will be coming along to talk about how to use your camera to best photograph invertebrates.
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.
Speaker: Mengjie Jin
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).
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.
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.
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.
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”.