Male feather-horned beetle Credit Kerry-Ann van Eeden

Antenna is the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society

Members and Fellows of the Society also get 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.

All volumes are accessible below, and volumes older than five years are available to the public.

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 SepĂșlveda De La Rosa (University of Sussex)

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BORDER - Antenna Volume 46 (4) 2022

Antenna Volume 46 (4) 2022

- Confronting parachute research in MedVet Entomology
- Shaping the Future for Pollinators
- Westwood Medal Report

Antenna 46 (3)

Antenna Volume 46 (3) 2022

- Honorary Fellow Interview – Јeremy Thomas
- Insect Odyssey: Insects, Books and the Artistic Imagination
- RES Awards
- Obituary – Dr Roger Blackman

Antenna Volume 46 (2) 2022

- Obituary - Professor Simon R. Leather
- RES Strategy Launch
- Insect Molecular Biology: an introduction to the journal

Antenna Volume 46 (1) 2022

- A New Chapter – The New RES Strategy and Brand
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Robin Wootton
- Urban Oasis at the Lancashire Science Festival
- Obituary – Professor Walter M. Blaney

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (4) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (4) 2010

– The Manchester Museum’s Entomology Collections
– Instigating an Education in Insects: The ‘Eating Creepy Crawlies’ Exhibition
– An Insect Survey of Uaso Narok Forest, Nyahururu (Kenya)
- The Royal Entomological Society Scholarships

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (3) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (3) 2010

- There and back again: the Bug Club returns (partly) to the RES – and it needs YOU
- New records and rare invertebrate specimens recorded during a decade of forest biodiversity research in Ireland
- Maggots, Murder and Microbes: uncovering the potential of carrion-feeding insects
- Wallace Award – Ants and Epiphytes
- National Insect Week – The Launch

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (2) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (2) 2010

– Bilateral asymmetry in larvae of some Argidae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinoidea) – Moths Count, past, present and future
– Greening = Grants and Greenbacks
– insect Displays and Exhibitions
– A Myrmecologist and a Great Society

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (1) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (1) 2010

– The Life and Entomological Collections of George Carter Bignell
– A short history of spiders’ silk spinning machines
– Mycophily – A New Science for Insect Conservation
– William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818), and the need for a digital, online ‘Icones’
– Project Wallace – after 25 years – a personal reflection
– The Bug Project
– Entography

Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (4) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (4) 2011

– The entomology collections of the Geneva Natural History Museum
– Asian Gallwasp Project: Taiwan-China Expedition 2011
– Scientific fieldwork or self-indulgent Adventure
 or both?
– Reaching out: duty, mutual respect and good fun!

Antenna Volume 35 (3) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (3) 2011

– Wind turbines, insects and wildlife interaction
– Insects in the Art and Mythology of Ancient Mesoamerica (Part 1)
– BioBlitz: a tool for the promotion of entomological science
– Field Club, natural history society and the evolution of a naturalist. Herbert Womersley (1889-1962) – acarologist and entomologist. His early life in England and his appointment in Australia.
– ICZN –an Increasing Concern for Zoological Nomenclature?

Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (2) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (2) 2011

– Whatever happened to the Organic Selectionists?
– NIW Photography Competition 2010
– Focus on education: The “Neotropical Butterfly Park” in Suriname
– Bugs on Camera

Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (1) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (1) 2011

– United States National Butterfly Center opens at Mission, Texas
– Sun, sea and special insects – hard-rock coasts and their invertebrates
– Centipedes and other arthropods on sea-shores
– Life on the high seas – the bug Darwin never saw