The Otago Entomology Society meets at 5:30pm on the first Thursday of every month. Meetings are usually in the Benham seminar room in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago, 340 Great King Street. Note that the electronic doors are locked from 5pm but a member of the group will be on hand to let you inside the building.

We host speakers on a range of topics, such as how to set up a Wikipedia page for your favourite insect; how to use iNaturalist to record your interesting insect finds and get involved in research; why wasps are important and how to monitor them.

We hold workshops to teach and practice insect identification skills, starting with how to tell a bug from a beetle and working up to using dichotomous keys to identify insects to species level. We provide microscopes, tweezers, sorting dishes and vials for use during workshops.