Our National Junior Insect Bug Club students have been thoroughly enjoying their On-Line classes and have been allocated their first assignments for the year.
Students have a segment in their classes called 'Featured Entomologists' where students learn about the work of professional entomologists both in Australia and
overseas.

This week, after learning about the great works of the late myrmecologist Edward O Wilson, students will follow up with their own ant surveys of their own properties.
Each different observed ant species is allocated a number, photographed and plotted on a large 'Property Map' to describe where on the property it was found.

A great way to introduce students to diversity.

 The Institute recently went up into the High Country south of Eildon to do an aquatic insect survey at the Jim Bullock Reserve.

Some interesting Ephemeroptera and Odonata were collected in order to add to the holdings of the Victorian Regional Insect Collection. The trip was also an opportunity to test out the new shelter annex designed to piggy back onto the NIOE van.

All in all, a great trip into some spectacular country.

For the past 8 days, all of our email servers were not able to send out emails and one server in particular was being used to send out 200 spam emails daily.

This server has been permanently shut down. We have decided to migrate all our website and email hosting to our own new servers dedicated only to our usage.
There will be a delay of a few days as we move all our data across and hopefully, all should back to normal by mid next week.

Class A of the National Junior Entomology Bug Club is nearly full for the Tuesdays slot. A second Class B may open if demand continues for a Wednesday Class. Parents...enrol quickly!