Antenna is the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society
Members and Fellows of the Society have exclusive access to Antenna, our quarterly members-only magazine, published four times a year. Each issue is packed with insect science spotlights, stunning photography, and captivating stories from real researchers in entomology that bring our projects, campaigns, and the importance of insects to life as we know it.
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History of Antenna
Since its launch in 1976, Antenna has connected generations of insect scientists, enthusiasts, educators and conservationists with research spotlights, citizen science and outreach initiatives, and stories that inform, inspire and celebrate the wonder of insects.
All volumes from present day to 2010 - as well as Volume 1 (1) and Volume 1 (2), dating back to 1977 - are listed below.
Volumes older than one year are freely accessible to the public.
50 Years of Antenna
Celebrate the 50th anniversary edition of Antenna magazine - open to all.
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Antenna Editorial Team
Editors: Richard Harrington and Dafydd Lewis
Editorial Coordinator: Jennifer Banfield-Zanin (RES)
Associate Editors: Jesamine Bartlett, Benjamin Chanda (PATH, Zambia), Jim Hardie, Louise McNamara (Teagasc, Ireland), Sajidha Mohammed (University of Calicut, India), Moses Musonda (Broadway Secondary School, Zambia), Claire Price (Harper Adams University), Stuart Reynolds (University of Bath), Yanet Sepúlveda De La Rosa (University of Sussex)
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- The mightiness of the effect: a bird’s eye view of insect declines
- Status of USA insects: what, when, where and why
- From transects to trends: celebrating 50 years of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
- Featured Insect: The Golden Horsefly: a glittering menace of the wetlands (Atylotus fulvus)
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- Reflections on golden tortoise beetles
- Counting by the billion: weather radar entomology unlocks national-scale monitoring of aerial insect abundance
- New Honorary Fellows
- Featured Insect: Golden-ringed Dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii)
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50th Anniversary Edition
- Insects and the law: exploring gaps in terrestrial invertebrate protection in Britain
- Flowers, fruit and fynbos: how to conserve beneficial insects in a biosphere reserve
- Embiopteran Tools: AI-powered species identification
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- Losing a limb: autotomy and amputation in insects
- Artificial Intelligence and insect mouth parts
- The featherwing beetle Nossidium pilosellum (Marsham, 1802)
- Interview with May Berenbaum
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- Magnetic Attraction: the geomagnetic direction-finding systems of insects
- The Darwin Tree of Life Project: sequencing everything!
- Insects and Fire
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- The Chemical Cocktail Hour: A roundup of environmental pollutants and insect declines
- Pet Parasiticides: A modern dilemma
- RHS looking for sightings of ‘mystery buddleja aphid’
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- Mimicry and gene flow among
butterfly species: reply to Brower & Garzón-Orduña
- EnTeam: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
- Saving the apollos and their allies
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- World-leading virus laboratory, The Pirbright Institute, on tackling Bluetongue Virus
- World Firefly Day 2024
- Evolution of mimicry in Heliconius butterflies: historical hypotheses meet modern models
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- The noisy, deceptive ultrasonic world of moths and
bats
- ‘Theatre of Insects’: an exhibition of rare entomology
books in the Old Library, Queens’ College
- A triumph for pollinator conservation in the Doon Valley
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- Insects great and small: on the significance of size.
- Experiences and some early results in monitoring
congregating fireflies using night photography on a boat.
- British & Irish Insects: The first 408 million years
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- Bed bugs: Don't panic!
- Climate change and insects: We don't know enough
- Honorary Fellow Interview - Stuart Reynolds
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- No Nucleus: The puzzling infertile sperm of Lepidoptera
- Scratching the Surface: Connecting the Sarcoptic Mite and scabies
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Hefin Jones
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