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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

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Cover of Antenna 44 (1) 2020

Antenna Volume 44 (1) 2020

– Funding research on insect population changes: some hope
– In search of dung beetles in Botswana: a journal of discovery
– New ways for old specimens – museomics is transforming the field of systematic entomology

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 43 (4) 2019

Antenna Volume 43 (4) 2019

– A trick of the light? Artificial light at night, insects and spiders
– Doing a PhD in the 1950s – no computers, photocopiers, pocket calculators and (in my case) no supervisor, almost
– Concerns for the last two known populations of Pterourus homerus (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in Jamaica, and strategies for conservation
– Midges vs horse flies and other Highland bloodsuckers
– The sixteenth meeting of the European Association of Forensic Entomology – Bordeaux, France

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Cover of Antenna 43 (3) 2019

Antenna Volume 43 (3) 2019

– Malaria control: a genetically engineered fungus that kills Anopheles mosquitoes
– Invertebrate health and the contribution of butterfly farming to conservation: synergies on the Kenyan coast
- RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects – 70 Years of Excellence, and a Bright and Varied Future
– How Dung Beetles Orientate, Verrall Lecture 2019

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Antenna Volume 43 (2) 2019

– Rarities of the Malay Peninsula
– Hypogean Pitfall Trapping: A Window into Another World
– News from Daneway Banks SSSI: 2017-18
– Journals and Library – Bridging the Referee Gap by Creating an Apprenticeship Editorial Board

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Cover of Antenna 43 (1) 2019

Antenna Volume 43 (1) 2019

– Bugocalypse? The Krefeld paper and large-scale declines in insect populations
– Scottish Champions: MSPs adopt threatened species
– Can street art help save our insects?

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Cover of Antenna Volume 42 (4) 2018

Antenna Volume 42 (4) 2018

– A butterfly-attracting common strangling fig (Ficus sundaica) in the Tasik Chini riverine forest in Peninsular Malaysia
– Butterflies of the Sacred Gangotri Landscape in the Himalaya

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Cover of Antenna Volume 42 (3) 2018

Antenna Volume 42 (3) 2018

– An edible caterpillar-rearing project in the Democratic Republic of Congo
– Termites: Global pest and a tasty treat
– Life on a bug farm: Opportunities for developing insects asfood and feed
– Saga pedo (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) outpreys the praying mantis

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Cover of Antenna Volume 42 (2) 2018

Antenna Volume 42 (2) 2018

– Leo Zehntner, Swiss pioneer of tropical applied entomology
– The biology and ecology of the Sheep Tick (Ixodes ricinus)
– Insect-plant interactions in the land of the hornbills

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Cover of Antenna Volume 42 (1) 2018

Antenna Volume 42 (1) 2018

– A bee as a pet - a bee psychologist's perspective
– Entomologist on Board
– Missing New Zealand stickman found in UK
– ‘Palmageddon’ revisited

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Antenna Volume 41 (4) 2017

– Mothing in the mountains: From the Himalaya to the Andes
– An Obscure Pest?
– Photographing courtship and mating behaviour in butterflies
– Gilbert White the entomologist

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Cover of Antenna Volume 41 (3) 2017

Antenna Volume 41 (3) 2017

– Searching for stick insects in Queensland, Australia
– Insects and bryophytes
– The Virginian Silkworm: From Myth to Moth
– Bugs, bees, carbon and trees

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Cover of Antenna Volume 41 (2) 2017

Antenna Volume 41 (2) 2017

– Daneway Banks – the Royal Entomological Society’s new nature reserve for insects
– Entomology, employability and Erasmus+: Developing the nature conservationists of the future through experimental learning in the Portuguese montado
– Scales, crazies, parasites and meltdown, at Christmas
– Entomological collections at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

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