I am a research scientist at CSIRO (Canberra, Australia) working on insect microbiomes. In my previous job, I was a research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK) studying the interplay of plants, bees, and bee pathogens. I am still collaborating on several ongoing projects there.

See my publications here:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3sAdLboAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

https://twitter.com/HaukeKoch

I also volunteer as a team member for Invertebrates Australia (https://invertebratesaustralia.org/), check out our Christmas Beetle Count on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/christmas-beetle-count

For useful resources on Christmas Beetle identification, see the great app by the Australian Museum:
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/christmas-beetle/
More technical, but with more detail, here is a link to the last revision of the Christmas Beetle genus Anoplognathus by P. B. Carne:
https://www.publish.csiro.au/ZO/pdf/ZO9570088

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