#YourDailyWeevil: a story of modest but gratifying

social media success

Sal Anzaldo (@SalAnzaldo) & Nico Franz (@taxonbytes)

Hasbrouck Insect Collection

Arizona State University

#YourDailyWeevil: Origins

#YourDailyWeevil: Origins

Goals

To share our joy for weevil diversity, morphology,

and beauty

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Why do this?

• Outreach

– Easy access, doesn’t require social media

skills

Why do this?

• Outreach

• Giving back to the collection that spawned

my interest in weevils

Source Images

• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)

Source Images

• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)

• Ongoing / recent research projects

Source Images

• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)

• Ongoing / recent research projects

• Recent donations - ASUCOB

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>90% images

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Results

May, 2014

June, 2017

Results

• Spikey = good

• Colorful = good

• Shiny = good

• Patterned = good

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Outlook

• #YDW, to be continued

Outlook

• #YDW, to be continued

• 64,000 described species of

Curculionoidea

Outlook

• #YDW, to be continued

• 64,000 described species of

Curculionoidea

– ...at least 175 more years of #YourDailyWeevil

Acknowledgements

• Charlie and Lois O’Brien

• Sangmi Lee

• Photographers that have contributed to #YDW:

Lisa Hoefler Naomi Pier

Soon Flynn Michael Schillingburg

Andrew Jansen Ashton Smith

Lin Pan Chelsey Tellez

Joshua Persson Kevin Wang

• Frequent retweeters:

Olivier Missa @olimissa Sydney Brannoch @skbrannoch

Christoph Benisch @kerbtierDE Jader O. @jdr_oliviera

FORBIX @weevil_forbix Ruth Bastardo @BastardoRuth

Víctor López Mtz @VictorLPezMtz Judá Isaí Martínez U @JIMU96who

Ainsley S @americanbeetles Siobhan @SiobhanLeachman

Tod Robbins @todrobbins Ummat @ummat_s

Diego Pádua @PaduaDG Mark Gurney @MarkGurn

Oliver Keller @drfirefly ...and many others!!