I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

https://fieldnatsact.com/event/march-monthly-meeting-speaker-donald-hobern-exploring-local-biodiversity-with-a-malaise-trap/

https://www.meetup.com/canberra-python-meetup-group/events/313087616/

#entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

The 10th iBOL 2026 conference site is online and registration is open!

https://dnabarcodingconference.com

To sign up for e-mail alerts, go to the website and click on the link on the bottom right-hand corner, above the social media links.

#iBOL2026 #DNAbarcoding #iBOL #InternationalBarcodeOfLife #biodiversity #monitoring

The #CentreForBiodiversityGenomics / International Barcode of Life Consortium (#iBOL) / #BOLDSystems is now releasing weekly #Frictionless data packages (tab-delimited) of all public #DnaBarcode data:

http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/datapackages

This may be more convenient than the old download formats, but it's 1.0 GB zipped / 10 GB unzipped.

The packages lack image URLs and taxon ids, which I need, but I plan to change https://bold-au.hobern.net/ to use them if this gets fixed.

#Biodiversity #BIOSCAN