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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 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)

Consulting Editor: Jim Hardie (RES)

Associate Editors: Jesamine Bartlett, Benjamin Chanda (PATH, Zambia), Adam Hart (University of Gloucestershire), 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 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

Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (3) 2013

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

Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (1) 2013

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 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

Cover of Antenna Volume 36 (3) 2012

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

Cover of Antenna Volume 36 (2) 2012

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 35 (4) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (4) 2011

– The entomology collections of the Geneva Natural History Museum
– Asian Gallwasp Project: Taiwan-China Expedition 2011
– Scientific fieldwork or self-indulgent Adventure… or both?
– Reaching out: duty, mutual respect and good fun!

Antenna Volume 35 (3) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (3) 2011

– Wind turbines, insects and wildlife interaction
– Insects in the Art and Mythology of Ancient Mesoamerica (Part 1)
– BioBlitz: a tool for the promotion of entomological science
– Field Club, natural history society and the evolution of a naturalist. Herbert Womersley (1889-1962) – acarologist and entomologist. His early life in England and his appointment in Australia.
– ICZN –an Increasing Concern for Zoological Nomenclature?

Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (2) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (2) 2011

– Whatever happened to the Organic Selectionists?
– NIW Photography Competition 2010
– Focus on education: The “Neotropical Butterfly Park” in Suriname
– Bugs on Camera

Cover of Antenna Volume 35 (1) 2011

Antenna Volume 35 (1) 2011

– United States National Butterfly Center opens at Mission, Texas
– Sun, sea and special insects – hard-rock coasts and their invertebrates
– Centipedes and other arthropods on sea-shores
– Life on the high seas – the bug Darwin never saw