Category Archives: Entomology

My new blog is up.

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

You can find it here. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as you have this one!

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Insect Memories

Posted on March 11, 2012 by

Friday was my last day in the Entomology department as a funded HLF biology curatorial trainee, so I decided to photograph some neotropical specimens. Dmitri still wants me to come back as a research volunteer to work on the Dermaptera … Continue reading →

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Mathematical, Mysterious Cicadas

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

The photo above is a picture I took last year in Belize of a molted cicada skin. This is the husk the insect leaves behind as it finally emerges as an adult insect after its long life cycle. Despite the … Continue reading →

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The Simms Indo-Australian Collection

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

I’m currently working on documenting and updating the nomenclature of this collection of butterflies, which was donated to The Manchester Museum in 1960 by the brothers Harold M and F.H. Simms along with a smaller European collection of Lepidoptera. Along … Continue reading →

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Identification

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

I’m back working in the Entomology and Botany departments here at the Manchester Museum. One of my first projects upon returning was to separate and identify Neotropical specimens of Lepidoptera by family and eventually, genus and species. There is a … Continue reading →

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When collections are your only identification key

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

As I mentioned a few posts back, as part of my traineeship I am undertaking several curation projects in various departments. One of the projects in Entomology has been to study and recurate the Lantern Bug collection at Manchester Museum. … Continue reading →

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Phasmids

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

Just a quick post as I’m feeling mighty tired and I still have lots of work to do on the earwig collections. There are currently live phasmids in the Entomology department. One is an Australian species that feeds on eucalyptus. The … Continue reading →

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Mysteries and Misconceptions

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Into my second week updating and researching the Manchester Museum’s tropical cicada and lantern fly collections.  Literature on this particular group of insects has been difficult to find, especially with regards to the Fulgoridae. I managed to find some books … Continue reading →

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New projects in Entomology

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

After some discussion I have two projects to do in Entomology for the next few months. The first involves updating the Fulgoridae database with photographs and up to date systematic names, the second is curating the largest and most important … Continue reading →

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