As you can understand, a newsletter needs content. With a worldwide community of presumably several hundred (more or less active) scarab workers, we are sure that there are many stories, techniques and notes to be shared between us. Please don’t be shy, and send your stories for inclusion in future issues of this newsletter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or to the private email address of one of the editors. Possible subjects include:


- Field adventures
- Book reviews
- Interesting websites
- Stories on visited collections (private as well as institutional)
- Stories / reports on meetings, seminars,
- Designs for collecting and curating equipment
- Techniques for collecting and curating
- Stories about/ biographies of past collectors
- In Memoriams
- Notes on ecology, behavior, distribution, etc.
- Scarab jokes and cartoons (please mind copyright on the latter)
- Photography techniques
- Various announcements
- Miscellaneous (coins and stamps with scarabs, use of scarabs as food / toys / jewelry / religious objects,...)

All submissions will be judged solely on their merit, quality and general interest, and not on who submits them. Nevertheless, we would especially like to encourage colleagues from demographic groups which are traditionally underrepresented in entomology to submit relevant content. If you feel uncertain about the quality of your English, please remember that we are willing to help you with that. If you want to do more than submit content, please let us know!