Antenna Volume 47 (3) 2023 Cover featuring the RES Garden dome
Male feather-horned beetle Credit Kerry-Ann van Eeden

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.

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Antenna Volume 1 (1) 1977

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.

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)

Antenna 50-1

Celebrate the 50th anniversary edition of Antenna magazine.

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Antenna Volume 47 (1)

Antenna Volume 47 (1) 2023

- Minute exceptions: insects that live in the sea
- The challenges of rewilding for insects
- Honorary Fellow Interview - Jim Hardie

This issue is free to read

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

This issue is free to read

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

This issue is free to read

Antenna Volume 46 (2) 2022

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

This issue is free to read

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

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 45 (4) 2021

Antenna Volume 45 (4) 2021

- Insect haemoglobins: from oddity to ubiquity
- Eating insects in the modern world
- Tips for insect photos from a total amateur Charles Ferriére

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Cover of Antenna 45 (3) 2021

Antenna Volume 45 (3) 2021

- Social Insects and the Fountain of Youth
- Understanding Butterfly Mimicry
- Honorary Fellow Interviews – Erica McAlister & Laurence Mound
- Obituary - Professor Barbara Ekbom

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna 45 (2) 2021

Antenna Volume 45 (2) 2021

- Chemical warfare in fungus-farming ants
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Jane Memmott
- Obituaries

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Cover of Antenna 45 (1)

Antenna Volume 45 (1) 2021

- The continuing evolution of insect flight
- William D. Hamilton: 20 years on
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Helen Roy

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Cover of Antenna Volume 44 (4) 2020

Antenna Volume 44 (4) 2020

- When, why and how insects got their wings
- How much do we know about non-native insect fauna?
- Dracula wasp – how a musicologist came to collect insect fossils

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 44 (3) 2020

Antenna Volume 44 (3) 2020

- Lockdown entomology – does less lead to more?
- Entomological triage at the wild frontier
- Profile: Student Representatives

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 44 (2) 2020

Antenna Volume 44 (2) 2020

– Impatient Damsels: Glowworms in Essex
– Introducing Edible Insects into Welsh School Canteens
– The Nectary and the “Hum of the Earth”

This issue is free to read