A group of students and postdocs from Brazil organized in March a Virtual Coleoptera Meeting (Encontro de Coleoptera). It featured a great group of speakers from multiple countries and speaking 3 languages. All presentations have subtitles in English (or in Portuguese, if presented in another language).
Here’s my talk encouraging everyone in Brazil to look for weevils in their backyard palm flowers:
There were also great surprises when it comes to weevil pollinators. Priscila Sanz-Veiga talked about a weevil species that breeds on fruits of Ouratea spectabilis (Ochnaceae), and apparently adults are flower visitors. It does not look like they are harmful to fruits at all, could they be unrecognized brood pollinators?
Alexandre Medeiros presented on the natural history of species of Oxycorinus weevils (family Belidae) pollinating parasitic plants in the family Balanophoraceae. This is a lineage of weevils for which very little is known, and it seems that in this case there is more than one species involved and their larvae may be feeding on different tissues (underground tubercle or floral stem):
A few other talks to highlight were Roberta Valente showing how she has been greatly advancing the study of palm flower weevils and other beetles in the Amazon, starting basically from scratch:
And Jennifer Girón presented on the ambitious goals of Colombian coleopterists to build a checklist of Coleoptera in one of the most diverse countries in the world!
These are just a few examples, many more great talks are available at the conference YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRwt-x6B_j9C9OCE4NjNNw/videos