Slides of the presentation "#YourDailyWeevil - a story of modest but gratifying social media success", given at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Collections Network, November 05, 2017, Denver, Colorado.

1. #YourDailyWeevil:
a story of modest but gratifying
social media success
Sal Anzaldo (@SalAnzaldo) & Nico Franz (@taxonbytes)
Hasbrouck Insect Collection
Arizona State University

2. #YourDailyWeevil: Origins

3. #YourDailyWeevil: Origins

7. Goals
To share our joy for weevil diversity, morphology,
and beauty

8. Reactions

9. Reactions

10. Reactions

11. Why do this?
• Outreach
– Easy access, doesn’t require social media
skills

12. Why do this?
• Outreach
• Giving back to the collection that spawned
my interest in weevils

13. Source Images
• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)

14. Source Images
• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)
• Ongoing / recent research projects

15. Source Images
• Weevils of North America project (WoNA)
• Ongoing / recent research projects
• Recent donations - ASUCOB

16. Source Collections
>90% images

17. 700+ #YourDailyWeevil posts

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Results
May, 2014
June, 2017

19. Results
• Spikey = good
• Colorful = good
• Shiny = good
• Patterned = good

20. Best of: #YourDailyWeevil

21. Best of: #YourDailyWeevil
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22. Best of: #YourDailyWeevil
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28. #3
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31. Outlook
• #YDW, to be continued

32. Outlook
• #YDW, to be continued
• 64,000 described species of
Curculionoidea

33. Outlook
• #YDW, to be continued
• 64,000 described species of
Curculionoidea
– ...at least 175 more years of #YourDailyWeevil

34. 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!!