Cover of Antenna Volume 37 (3) 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 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.

Get even more great stories with full access to Antenna Magazine - Become a member today!

Antenna Volume 1 (1) 1977

All volumes from present day to 2010 - as well as Volume 1 (1) and Volume 1 (2), dating back to 1977 - are listed below.

Volumes older than one year are freely accessible 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 SepĂșlveda De La Rosa (University of Sussex)

Antenna 50-1

Celebrate the 50th anniversary edition of Antenna magazine.

Read it for free below.

Are you a RES Member or Fellow who would enjoy a hard copy of our quarterly magazine?*

RES Members and Fellows can visit 'my account - my profile' and select 'no' to Go Paperless to ensure they receive physical copies of Antenna going forward.

*Student and Associate Members are not eligible for physical copies of Antenna.


If you would like to submit an article to Antenna please see the author guidelines.
Would you like to place an ad in Antenna?

Find our rates, deadlines and other information via the links below. Please be aware that inclusion of an advert is at our discretion.

If you'd like to discuss specific requirements beforehand, please get in touch with Anne Weinhold, Head of Development and Projects.


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

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (4) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (4) 2010

– The Manchester Museum’s Entomology Collections
– Instigating an Education in Insects: The ‘Eating Creepy Crawlies’ Exhibition
– An Insect Survey of Uaso Narok Forest, Nyahururu (Kenya)
- The Royal Entomological Society Scholarships

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (3) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (3) 2010

- There and back again: the Bug Club returns (partly) to the RES – and it needs YOU
- New records and rare invertebrate specimens recorded during a decade of forest biodiversity research in Ireland
- Maggots, Murder and Microbes: uncovering the potential of carrion-feeding insects
- Wallace Award – Ants and Epiphytes
- National Insect Week – The Launch

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (2) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (2) 2010

– Bilateral asymmetry in larvae of some Argidae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinoidea) – Moths Count, past, present and future
– Greening = Grants and Greenbacks
– insect Displays and Exhibitions
– A Myrmecologist and a Great Society

This issue is free to read

Cover of Antenna Volume 34 (1) 2010

Antenna Volume 34 (1) 2010

– The Life and Entomological Collections of George Carter Bignell
– A short history of spiders’ silk spinning machines
– Mycophily – A New Science for Insect Conservation
– William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818), and the need for a digital, online ‘Icones’
– Project Wallace – after 25 years – a personal reflection
– The Bug Project
– Entography

This issue is free to read

Antenna Volume 1 (2) 1977

Antenna Volume 1 (2) 1977

- There will never be another chance in the history of Planet Earth
- More than just birds
- Information Sources in Entomology

This issue is free to read

Antenna Volume 1 (1) 1977

Antenna Volume 1 (1) 1977

- Need we be such unmitigated bores? - Miriam Rothschild
- Entomology at Furzebrook Research Station
- Entomology at Liverpool Polytechnic

This issue is free to read