Hi :-)

I am an undergraduate from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia . Much of my spare time is spent in the field surveying for land snails and weevils (mostly at the moment), cryptic / rare plants, land planarians, harvestman and generally just leaf litter dwelling fauna. At the moment I am looking at Bryophytes.

I also love macro photography and the idea of conservation photography.
Along with my identical twin, Otto (@elusiveweevils) we have amassed a large collection of pinned and preserved specimens of predominantly terrestrial snails and weevils. This includes about 15 species new to science.
We also have quite a large collection of general natural history objects from our childhood.
I work a lot with Dr Kevin Bonham, collecting land snails, and to whom I owe most of my knowledge of terrestrial snails to.

I have always been interested in nature, and for a lot of my life that has been in the form of conservation of threatened species, beetles and terrestrial snails (especially within the family Charopidae) and native orchids.

I am working towards becoming a threatened species conservationist (especially for understudied / under-represented groups) /invertebrate zoologist / terrestrial gastropod taxonomist / ecologist. I also love the idea of conservation photography, to raise awareness for threatened species (especially for cryptic invertebrate groups) which I think are extremely under-represented in threatened
I volunteer for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Galleries invertebrate collections, and at Biosecurity Tasmania, mainly doing beetle specimen photography for an online catalogue.

Disclaimer
I do not claim to be an expert in fields outside of Tasmanian land snails. As such please don’t hesitate correct or question my identifications if you feel so obliged.

Feel free to contact me through: Bruno.bell@gmail.com if you have any queries. If you find any interesting, feel free to tag me :)

Camera set up:
Laowa 25mm 2.5-5x lens
Laowa 100mm 2x lens
Sony 90 mm (don’t currently use)
Sony A7iii body
Laowa KX 800 twin flash
CygnusTech diffuser + hand made diffusers
Raynox-250 (I don’t use it anymore because I keep on loosing it)