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Top tips for insect-friendly gardening
Insect-friendly gardening: top tips on gardening in harmony with insects Insects are vital to the ecosystems we rely on for survival, but many are suffering mass global decline. Gardeners have a crucial role to play in the survival and success of insects, just as they do in ours. The Royal Entomological Society… Read More
Professor Paul Brakefield Hon.FRES
Paul Brakefield is an evolutionary biologist who studies butterflies and other insects. He is particularly interested in the effects of their development and physiology on natural selection. Paul has shown that changes that occur through evolution are shaped by interplay between an organism’s environment and the genes controlling their development. Read More
Large blue and other rare insects thriving on grasslands restored as part of RES project
Read the full Press Release here: Rare insects and plants thriving under the wing of the globally endangered Large blue butterfly on restored grasslands The once-extinct Large blue butterfly, reintroduced to the UK in 1983, flew in its… Read More
RES Journal Awards 2022
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Royal Entomological Society Journal Awards. This award is given to the best papers published during 2019-21. Click here to read more about the RES Journal Awards. Click the journal name below to jump to each journal’s winner and read… Read More
Media Centre
Latest news, press releases, expert insights and reports from the Royal Entomological Society For general media enquiries, please contact our communications team at press@royensoc.co.uk. Latest Press Releases March 2026 23 March 2026 – RES launches new journal: Approaches in Entomology 23 March 2026 – Insects… Read More
Insects in the News: Charidotella sexpunctata – Bembecia ichneumoniformis – Six-belted Clearwing – Antenna: Volume 50 (1) 2026
Antenna 50 (1) Highlight – Insects in the News: Bembecia ichneumoniformis – Six-belted Clearwing Article by Richard Harrington, with the help of material from Hugh Loxdale, Stuart Reynolds and Dafydd Lewis. October to December 2025 By the time you are reading this, Christmas will be a distant memory, but… Read More
50 Years of Antenna: Volume 50 (1) 2026
Antenna is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026 – and we’re making the first issue accessible to all! Since its launch in 1976, Antenna has connected generations of insect scientists, enthusiasts, educators and conservationists with research spotlights, citizen science and outreach initiatives, and stories that inform, inspire and celebrate the wonder… Read More
Insect Week
Help Insects Thrive and Stand Tall for the Small Sign the Pledge Insect Week returns from 22–28 June 2026, celebrating the fascinating world of insects and the vital role they play in keeping ecosystems… Read More
RES Journal Highlights
This page showcases examples of excellent research published in our journals Here at the Royal Entomological Society, we publish seven high-quality scientific journals covering a wide range of study areas across entomology. By choosing to publish, read and review papers in our journals, you are helping the Society invest in… Read More
The Royal Entomological Society Obligations Book
Rose PearsonRES Librarian and Archivist One item in our collections which offers a real sense of the history of the RES as a continually evolving entomological organisation is The Obligations Book, which was first signed by the founders of the Society in 1833 and remains a working document, still signed… Read More