Antenna is the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society
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– 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
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– 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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- Butterflying in the digital age!
- Madagascan ‘wild’ silk
- EntoSci16 a conference for future and budding entomologists
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– 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
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– 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
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– 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?
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– 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
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– Colour in aphids – Aposematic, cryptic or both?
– Children experience Science
– Detour to the West Country: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
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– 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
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– 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)
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– 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
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– 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
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