Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (4) 2011
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 Sepúlveda De La Rosa (University of Sussex)

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Cover of Antenna Volume 36 (4) 2012

Antenna Volume 36 (4) 2012

- The Butterfly, Owl or Lizard
- Durrellian Odyssey – An entomological journey to the island of Corfu
– Henri de Saussure’s expedition to Mexico and the West Indies (1854-56)
– Elizabeth Denyer’s paintings of William Jones’ British butterflies: their discovery and significance
– The UK National Collection goes electronic

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Antenna Volume 36 (3) 2012

– Palaeodiversity of fossil inclusions in Dominican amber with an emphasis on Hexapoda
- Palaeoentomology – Lower Cretaceous fossil insects from southern England
- The Hoverfly Recording Scheme – putting Diptera on the map
- UK Ladybird Survey: Engaging People in Recording Ladybirds

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Antenna Volume 36 (2) 2012

- Local insect expert to lead National Awareness Week – Insects in the Art and Mythology of Ancient Mesoamerica (Part 2) – Garden Entomology. The Work of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Entomologists – 17th - 19th century honeybee books in the Royal Entomological Society Library – Insects in Art. The recycled chemist who recycles insects - Peat(Skid)More – Woodland Appeal

Cover of Antenna Volume 36 (1) 2012

Antenna Volume 36 (1) 2012

– Bird nests: an overlooked ecosystem opportunity for specialised nest-dwelling arthropods
– Training a new generation of Dipterists
– Insect translocations: should we move insect species that are faced with local extinction to new areas?
- Monitoring a translocation of Silver-studded Blue in Suffolk
- Translocating the Pine Hoverfly, Blera fallax
- Restoring the Marsh Fritillary butterfly to Cumbria
- Species Re-introductions – Going… Almost Gone… Back. The Field Cricket
- Reintroduction of the short-haired bumblebee into the UK

Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (4) 2013

Antenna Volume 37 (4) 2013

– Alfred Russel Wallace: Ardent beetle-hunter and co-discoverer of natural selection
– Wallace’s legacy: from biogeography to conservation biology
– Robert Hooke’s Micrographia – an entomological cornucopia
– Watch the dragon, see the change: A brief report of a session on biomonitoring at the International Congress of Odonatology in Freising, Bavaria
– Some observations on the Genera Maculinea and Everes in Central Italy and a problem of identification in the Satyridae

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Antenna Volume 37 (3) 2013

- A bridge too far for Caddisflies and Mayflies
- Bits and Bugs – Making the most of Technology in Entomology
- Gorillas were his neighbours… and lot of large tropical insects too
- Checklisting the Irish insects
- The Biology of Butterflies: the history and future of an international symposium

Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (2) 2013

Antenna Volume 37 (2) 2013

- Bugs for Life 2013: Exploring the practices, perceptions and possibilities of edible insects in Northern Benin
- Photo Essay – Butterflies of Iguazu National Park
- NIW Photography Competition 2012

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Antenna Volume 37 (1) 2013

– Like Father, Like Son: The ‘Lost” Entomological Paintings of John
Harris (1767-1832) and the remarkable Harris Legacy
– Beetlemania! An exhibition exploring the natural, scientific and cultural importance of beetles
- Salsa Invertebraxa
– The Insect Pollinators Initiative and Status and Trends in European Pollinators
- Insects in Line

Cover of Antenna Volume 38 (1) 2014

Antenna Volume 38 (1) 2014

– Ento: Introducing Edible Insects into the Western Diet
– Entomophagy, a Journey from Novelty to Necessity
– BugsCEP, an entomological database twenty-five years on
– Confessions of a Verrall Supper Organiser, 1972-2012
– Moths Count and the National Recording Scheme: an update
– Insects in Line. Michael Darby. Facing up to Beetles

Cover of Antenna Volume 38 (2) 2014

Antenna Volume 38 (2) 2014

– Climate change and bugs down under
– Butterflies of Semuliki National Park, Uganda
– Malcolm Barcant (1913-1936) and the butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago
– François-Jules Pictet and the Neuroptera
– A tour of insect collections in the UK: First stop - The Cole Museum of Zoology
– Photographing Oxford’s Lepidoptera type collection

Cover of Antenna Volume 38 (3) 2014

Antenna Volume 38 (3) 2014

– The Rothamsted Insect Survey Strikes Gold
– What have invertebrates ever done for us?
– The RES Library’s Collection of Rare Entomological Books
- A Day in the Life at Butterfly World

Cover of Antenna Volume 38 (4) 2014

Antenna Volume 38 (4) 2014

– A dyeing business? Canary cochineal insects
– Butterflies seem not to reflect circularly polarised light
– Discovering the Microcosm 3D SEM’s of insects
– Musings on the birds and bees... and flies and butterflies too
– Can we keep it? Managing the impact of the Nagoya Protocol on insect collections and research
– Continuing the tour of insect collections in the UK – National Museum Cardiff (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd)