Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (2) 2013
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 39 (1) 2015

Antenna Volume 39 (1) 2015

– Recent developments regarding the entomological fauna of Corfu (Kérkira)
– Grub’s Up. Lunch at The Bug Farm – Entomophagy, a New Special Interest Group
– The Weavers Tale, Aad the Ant Hunter
– Why I Joined the Twitterati: Blogs, Tweets & Talks –Making Entomology Visible

Cover of Antenna Volume 39 (2) 2015

Antenna Volume 39 (2) 2015

– Colour in aphids – Aposematic, cryptic or both?
– Children experience Science
– Detour to the West Country: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Cover of Antenna Volume 39 (3) 2015

Antenna Volume 39 (3) 2015

– Huber the Bees: François Huber and the science of entomology in eighteenth-century Geneva
– Insects in the Kitchen: John Bennett’s scrap metal insects culptures
– The Inevitable Entomologist. An interview with Richard Bugman Jones

Cover of Antenna Volume 39 (4) 2015

Antenna Volume 39 (4) 2015

– Cyrtobagous salviniae – Godsend in God’s Own Country
– Museum collections: a treasure trove for fungal hunters
– How many entomologists can you fit in a box?

Cover of Antenna Volume 40 (4) 2016

Antenna Volume 40 (4) 2016

– Butterfly status –Honeysuckle Cottage, Tidenham Chase – some notes
– Insect diversity sustained by large-scale ecological networks
– Touring Entomology collections in the UK: Royal Cornwall Museum

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Antenna Volume 40 (3) 2016

- Butterflying in the digital age!
- Madagascan ‘wild’ silk
- EntoSci16 a conference for future and budding entomologists

Cover of Antenna Volume 40 (2) 2016

Antenna Volume 40 (2) 2016

– Something Coleopteran This Way Comes
– Firefly conservation: Monitoring the synchronous fireflies of the Selangor River in Malaysia
– Monarchy or Democracy; who’s really in charge of the antcolony?
– Supercomputer reveals internal structure of wasp nest
– Bugs for Life bites back: Edible insects in northern Benin

Cover of Antenna Volume 40 (1) 2016

Antenna Volume 40 (1) 2016

– Mothing in the Himalaya: No mountain too high
– The Royal Entomological Society of London – ripping yarns from yesteryear
– A new ingredient for poultry feed?
– Insects as Food and Feed – an interdisciplinary workshop held in Oxford, December 2015

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

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

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

Cover of Antenna Volume 41 (1) 2017

Antenna Volume 41 (1) 2017

– The need for quality management in entomological research: lessons from contract research
– Poultry manure-inhabiting mites (Mesostigmata: Acari)
– Butterflies playing ‘possum’: An adaptive behaviour related to winter survival?
– Assessing freshwater condition and health using dragonflies
- Bear wasps of the Middle Kingdom: a decade of discovering China’s bumblebees