India's Nature - Monsoon Beauty 2022's Journal

Inviting you to Beetle Mania 2022

An inaugural event to celebrate these jewels of nature, and to understand more about beetles

Schedule

21st August 2022

An online talk, by Amol Patwardhan & the Flabella Team, is scheduled 4 to 5 PM. See the talk on youtube here while this is the journal report

27th August 2022

Online Zoom Talk on Beetle Diversity in the Himalayas,
Speaker - Dr. Kailash Chandra, Former Direction Zoological Survey of India
and A leading Entomologist & Beetle Expert. Details are here

Details of the event and to Register follow this link

22nd to 28th August - Inaturalist Event

The observation event live on iNaturalist

Inaturalist event some norms

1. Top observers and identifiers__ will receive a surprise gift while participants meeting a basic minimum (50 observations ) will receive participation certificates.
2. Other norms on ethics would be as per the norms for Monsoon Beauty 2022
3. Observations Counts from Beetle Mania 2002 would be counted towards Monsoon Beauty 2022

Beetle Walks

Proposed in:

1. Munsiari, (Himal Prakriti & India's Nature )
2. Dehradun (Titli Trust)

More Beetle walks are being organized - the full list of places and contacts to be uploaded soon)
( In case any group would like to organize a beetle walk and would like the information to be disseminated kindly write to @ram_K on Inaturalist or email indias.nature01@gmail.com

Details of Partnering Groups

*DiversityIndia
Area of Work – India
Contact:
Persons : Vijay Barve @vijaybarve
Phone: +91 98457 24832 (Whatsapp)
Email : Vijay Barve vijay.barve@gmail.com
DiversityIndia DiversityIndia@gmail.com

East Coast Conservation Team

Area of Work : Andhra Pradesh Coasts
Contact Person: Sri Chakra Pranav (Coordinator Andhra Pradesh) @srichakrapranav
Contact details:
Phone no.: +91 99013 28731
Email - eastcoastconservationtrust@gmail.com
Website:
Instagram - https://instagram.com/eastcoastconservationteam?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Flabella Ecoservices LLP

Area of Work - Maharashtra / India
Contact Persons :
Amol Patwardhan; +91 98209 62452 @amolpatwardhan
Harshad Parekar; @beetlemaniac
Drashti Danani
Email : flabella.ecoservices@gmail.com

Himal Prakriti – A trust for Nature

Geographic Reach: Munsiari, Uttarakhand
Contact Person: Trilok Singh Rana @triloksinghrana
Contact details:
Email: ranatriloksingh30@gmail.com ,
himal.prakriti@gmail.com,
Phone no.: +91 8937978148 (also whatsapp)
Website:
Instagram –@voicesofmunsiari @himalayanark

Nature Mates-Nature Club

Geographic Reach: State of West Bengal
Contact Person: Arjan Basu Roy
Contact details: naturemates@gmail.com
Phone no.: 9874357414
8240781459
Website: naturematesindia.org
Instagram - nature_mates_nc

Nature Science Initiative

Area of Work – Uttarakhand
Contact Persons : Soumya prasad
Phone:
Cell: +91 75791 84123 (Whatsapp)
Tel: +91 135 2651654
Email :
nsi@ naturescienceinitiative.org
prasadsoumya@gmail.com
Website: https://naturescienceinitiative.org/

Titli Trust

Area of Work – Nature Education, Conservation
Contact Persons : Sanjay Sondhi @sanjaysondhi
Phone: +91 94120 52189
Email : sanjay.sondhi1@gmail.com
titlitrust@gmail.com
Website - https://titlitrust.org

Volunteers

1. Jennifer
2. Mehar Arunika
3. Aastha Tewari

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Looking forward to your participation.
Ram @ram_k
India's Nature
on Behalf of
Team Beetle Mania 2022

Invitational Poster for your viewing pleasure

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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

(Beetle Mania 2022)

Time: Aug 21, 2022 04:00 PM Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi

Speaker : Amol Patwardhan, Ph.D

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83126716421?pwd=WnplQThYTmlIV1VoN3RrMDQ0MnJCZz09

Meeting ID: 831 2671 6421
Passcode: 503770

Screenshot from the presentation

Introduction to Beetles - Zoom Talk by Dr Amol Patwardhan

(Beetle Mania 2022)

Time: Aug 21, 2022 04:00 PM Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi

Speaker : Amol Patwardhan, Ph.D

This is the link to the presentation on youtube

Notes on the Zoom Session

The sessions started with some introductions to Beetle Mania 2022 , India's Nature - followed by a detailed introduction of Dr Amol Patwardhan and Flabeller Ecoservices LLP.

In the Initial part the video is in Zoom Gallery Mode (apologies) and after a while the presentation appears in full screen - being new to zoom we did not realize that the video would capture gallery view.

Notes on the Talk

• Dr. Amol Patwardhan, made the presentation via zoom. This 1st talk kickstarted Beetle Mania, 2022
• There was an peak audience of 82 people
• Following the presentation there was an active and interested Q & A session
• Concurrent to the presentation there were a lot of questions posted on the Chat and responses were made primarily by Harshad Parekar (Flabella Team) and Ram.

Some Notes on Beetles Collated from the talk

About Dr Amol Patwardhan

• He currently works with the Department of Zoology, Somaiya Vidyavihar in Mumbai.
  He does research in Zoology, Systematics (Taxonomy) and Entomology
  

Key Points

• Talk centred around how to identify beetles based on looking at its body forms for a lay person and its importance to our ecosystem, their diverse forms and the insufficient identification of beetles done till date.
• Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word beetle stands for little biter, they have sheathed wings, the outer structure of beetles is actually its skeleton.
• One can ID beetle from their

There is a lot more in the actual presentation, and hope you find it as useful as some of us in the live audience did.

Resources for the event were supported by Uma , and S Kalyanaraman

Another Screenshot from the presentation