Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Monday, 9 March 2015
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Friday, 29 November 2013
New Member
A warm welcome to our newest member: Insectinside: Warwick Gardens - the diversity of a Peckham park.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Monday, 22 April 2013
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Circus of the Spineless
The latest edition of Circus of the Spineless is on-line now at
from Archaea to Zeaxanthol.
from Archaea to Zeaxanthol.
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:
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”.
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Bugs Britannica
Following the success of Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica, Richard Mabey and Peter Marren have begun compiling Bugs Britannica:
Bugs Britannica will be a nationwide chronicle of bug life in the 21st century. It will look at why bugs matter to us and why we care about them. It will record our continuing love-hate relationship with small life and how it influences our life and times, in a word, our culture. We want to find out what meaning we attach to bugs, what uses and entertainments we have made of them, how they inspire us whether in poetry, prose, film or song, and what we do to attract and conserve them.
The authors are appealing for people to send in examples of bug-lore:
We want to know about your encounters with bug life. Do you garden with bugs in mind, perhaps with bee-friendly flowers or a pond? Are there local names or customs involving particular insects or other invertebrates? Have you ever been inspired by bug activity, whether by a spider spinning its web, or a grasshopper chirping in the long grass, or the homely shape and colours of a bumblebee?
You can contribute by leaving a comment on the Bugs Britannica blog. There's also an article about the project in the August edition of BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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