Antenna Volume 48 (4) 2024
Male feather-horned beetle Credit Kerry-Ann van Eeden

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Antenna Volume 48 (4) 2024

Antenna Volume 48 (4) 2024

- World-leading virus laboratory, The Pirbright Institute, on tackling Bluetongue Virus
- World Firefly Day 2024
- Evolution of mimicry in Heliconius butterflies: historical hypotheses meet modern models

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Antenna Volume 48 (3) 2024 cover

Antenna Volume 48 (3) 2024

- The noisy, deceptive ultrasonic world of moths and bats
- ‘Theatre of Insects’: an exhibition of rare entomology books in the Old Library, Queens’ College
- A triumph for pollinator conservation in the Doon Valley

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Antenna Volume 48 (2) 2024

- Insects great and small: on the significance of size.
- Experiences and some early results in monitoring congregating fireflies using night photography on a boat.
- British & Irish Insects: The first 408 million years

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Antenna Volume 48 (1) 2024 cover

Antenna Volume 48 (1) 2024

- Bed bugs: Don't panic!
- Climate change and insects: We don't know enough
- Honorary Fellow Interview - Stuart Reynolds

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Antenna Volume 47 (4) 2023

- No Nucleus: The puzzling infertile sperm of Lepidoptera
- Scratching the Surface: Connecting the Sarcoptic Mite and scabies
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Hefin Jones

Antenna Volume 47 (3) 2023 Cover featuring the RES Garden dome

Antenna Volume 47 (3) 2023

- An entomologist at Chelsea
- Meadows and insect conservation
- Featured Insect: Violet Oil Beetle, Melöe violaceus Marsham, 1802

Antenna Volume 47 (2) 2023

- Insect declines and ecosystems
- How farming could deliver for insects
- The RES goes to Chelsea, part 2

Antenna Volume 47 (1)

Antenna Volume 47 (1) 2023

- Minute exceptions: insects that live in the sea
- The challenges of rewilding for insects
- Honorary Fellow Interview - Jim Hardie

BORDER - Antenna Volume 46 (4) 2022

Antenna Volume 46 (4) 2022

- Confronting parachute research in MedVet Entomology
- Shaping the Future for Pollinators
- Westwood Medal Report

Antenna 46 (3)

Antenna Volume 46 (3) 2022

- Honorary Fellow Interview – Јeremy Thomas
- Insect Odyssey: Insects, Books and the Artistic Imagination
- RES Awards
- Obituary – Dr Roger Blackman

Antenna Volume 46 (2) 2022

- Obituary - Professor Simon R. Leather
- RES Strategy Launch
- Insect Molecular Biology: an introduction to the journal

Antenna Volume 46 (1) 2022

- A New Chapter – The New RES Strategy and Brand
- Honorary Fellow Interview – Robin Wootton
- Urban Oasis at the Lancashire Science Festival
- Obituary – Professor Walter M. Blaney