Our Objectives

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To advance and disseminate entomological knowledge in all its aspects, particularly but not exclusively, in relation to the Australian fauna. We achieve this by:

Publishing a journal, a news bulletin and a series of miscellaneous publications
Organising scientific meetings of members
Awarding research grants to financial members

Awarding prizes to students for papers or essays on entomological topics
Awarding prizes for taxonomic illustrations and photographs of insects or allied forms

Announcements

17 January, 2012

Australian Entomological Society – 43rd AGM & Scientific Conference and Australasian Arachnological Society – 2012 Conference

For detailed information and registration details visit the Conference Website

17 January, 2012

Are you interested in being a Volunteer for Australia’s Biodiversity !

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), in partnership with the Australian Museum (AM), has developed an online Volunteer Portal for keen members of the community to help digitise, among other things, entomological collections of Museums. All from the comfort of your own computer.

See: http://volunteer.ala.org.au/

The aim of the project is to encourage online, or virtual, volunteers towork on the monumental task of transcribing specimen labels, field notes, and expedition diaries from various Australian museum collections, into digitised records. So far volunteers have completed 3500 individual tasks of around 6600 currently online. More volunteers are needed so please sign up and lend a hand. Current projects involve transcribing labels for Cicadas and Hawk Moths, and field notes from the Scott Sisters, with projects for Leaf Hoppers and Plume Moths soon to be online.