Thursday 10 January 2008

Bugs Britannica - an update

The Bugs Britannica blog is continuing to attract interesting contributions from the public.

Here's an example, submitted by Ian Wallace:
Museum insect collections are full of human interest vignettes as well as the actual collections. Among those at World Museum Liverpool are a giant wood wasp, which sports an impressive egg-laying spike that a member of the public handed in during the 2nd World War thinking it was a secret weapon dropped by a German plane. Also along the war-time theme is a Scarce Swallowtail Buterfly with a few holes in the wings that the collector, Colonel J.A. Graham notes on the label “Jeancourt June 1917 blown up by a 3″ shell and picked up half dead”.

1 comment:

Lisa Museums said...

Hi, if you want to find out more about the bugs, ants, aquarium and more cool features at the World Museum Liverpool, then visit the main website at: Liverpool Museums