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<\/a><\/p>\nThe American Entomological Society<\/a>! Just the style alone gives it some serious historical weight, making it look like one of those embossing seals you pound into paper. And double bonus, a bad-ass eastern Hercules beetle unabashedly unfurls a timeless Latin motto “Festina Lente”, (advance deliberately). I love this logo so much I swiped its style for my Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group<\/a> logo. It’s the standard-bearer of all entomological society logos, in my view.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My second favorite logo has got to be that of\u00a0 SOLA<\/a>: Just bask in the beetle-themed glory of this outstanding coat-of-arms! From the legs forming the outer edge to the crossed scarab antennae and locking horns. I earnestly hope somewhere this exists as a brass plaque. Or is tattooed on somebody’s elytra.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Royal Entomological Society<\/a> provides no concrete reason why its logo features a stylopid strepsipteran<\/a>, but I forgive them because their logo features a stylopid strepsipteran<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Society of Southwestern Entomologists<\/a> rocks out with the ironclad beetle, one of my favorite desert beetles. This particular species was apparently described by one of their first society presidents.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I love how the The Arachnological Society of Japan <\/a>logo has a spare set of pedipalps at the bottom, because you never know when you’ll need them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Entomological Society of Canada<\/a> not only is in Latin, but proudly displays a grylloblattid<\/a>, also known as an ice crawler, which lives on snowy mountaintops. A bold and colorful design for such an obscure and furtive creature!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What other society can boast that their logo is an animated firefly gif?<\/em> None, other than the Entomological Society of Pennsylvania<\/a>. Do they sell glow-in-the-dark blinking t-shirts? If so, I am wanting one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The mecopteran Boreus elegans<\/em> gets star treatment on the Entomological Society of British Columbia<\/a>‘s logo, a perfect fit for snow-covered BC. They even have a detailed write-up on their distinctive Official Insect<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are so many other geopolitical regions with their own invert-themed logos, and I have barely touched on spiders, mites, and other inverts. Any good ones I’ve missed? If there’s one thing that entomological, arachnological, and other invertebrate societies have in common, it’s a tendency to put obscure organisms front and center on their official seals. This post will be first in a series of these gloriously earnest … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\nI love that the International Society of Hymenopterists<\/a>\u00a0 has outfitted the vespid on their logo with a planetary thorax. A very classy design, sadly this is the largest image I could find.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Maine Entomological Society<\/a> also is decorated by a hymenopteran. Dipogon sayi<\/em> Banks looks like it’s about to chew up Maine’s border to make a colossal northeastern wasp-nest.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"