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As well as the various feature articles listed below, the following are regular features:

  • My Best Day (in which authors describe their most memorable day in the field)
  • My Garden (a look at some of the more interesting gardens around the country)
  • County Focus (a look at the landscape, conservation issues and species of a particular county)
  • The Art of Coarse Entomology (a light-hearted look at the world of entomology, by Jim Porter)
  • News/Notes/Requests

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Winter 2010

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Issue 39 (Winter 2010) Out Now

  • Queen of Spain Fritillary Issoria lathonia Breeding in Sussex
  • Egyptian Bollworm Earias insulana in Northamptonshire
  • Globe Skimmer Pantala flavescens: the Greatest Migrant?
  • Brassy Waved Umber Menophra japygiara in Cornwall
  • Migrant Butterflies, Moths and Dragonflies in 2009
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui Aberrations

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Issue 38 (Autumn 2009)

  • Jersey Mocha Cyclophora ruficiliaria Breeding in Cornwall
  • Rediscovery of Dainty Damselfly Coenagrion scitulum in Jersey
  • National Moth Night 2008
  • Silver-studded Blue Plebejus argus Staying True to its Foodplant
  • Willow Emerald Damselfly Lestes viridis in East Anglia
  • Mountain Moths in the Scottish Highlands
  • The Garden Moth Scheme 2003-2008
  • Some Moth Population Statistics from Arne, Dorset

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Issue 37 (Spring 2009)

  • Pine-tree Lappet Dendrolimus pini - Friend or Foe?
  • Moth-trap Developments
  • Lepidoptera Pathogens
  • Winter Damselfly Sympecma fusca in Glamorgan
  • Detecting the Raspberry Clearwing Pennisetia hylaeiformis in the UK
  • Opogona omoscopa in Cleveland
  • Anatrachyntis badia Recorded in the Wild

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Issue 36 (Winter 2008)

  • Sombre Brocade and Boxworm Moth - New to Britain
  • Largest Site and Garden Lists in the British Isles
  • Migrant Butterflies, Moths and Dragonflies in 2008
  • Western Conifer Seed Bug in Britain

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Issue 35 (Autumn 2008)

  • The Rediscovery of the White Prominent Leucodonta bicoloria in Ireland in 2008
  • The Influx of the Camberwell Beauty Nymphalis antiopa to North-west Europe in 2006
  • Can a Butterfly Monitoring Protocol be Adapted to Monitor Populations of Hoverflies
  • Mysteries of Lepidoptera Migration Revealed by Entomological Radar
  • The Sandhill Rustic Luperina nickerlii: a Conservation Flagship
  • Defending the Bugs of West Thurrock Marshes
  • My Best Day by Bernard Skinner
  • The Feline Cerura erminea: a New Moth for Britain and the Channel Islands

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Issue 34 (Spring 2008)

  • Identification of Emerald Damselflies Lestes spp.
  • The Winter Immigration of 2008
  • National Moth Night 2007
  • Identification of Peacock Moths
  • Tamarisk Plume Agdistis tamaricis: New to the Channel Islands
  • Successful colonisation by Barberry Carpet Pareulype berberata
  • Two Weeks in the Languedoc
  • Bordered Gothic Heliophobus reticulata hibernica in the Republic of Ireland

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Issue 33 (Winter 2008)

  • Notes on the Continental Swallowtail Papilio machaon gorganus
  • Common Forest Looper Pseudocoremia suavis: A New Species to Britain
  • Willow Emerald Damselfly Lestes viridis in Suffolk
  • Occurrences of the Scarcer Moth Species in 2007
  • Migrant Dragonflies in 2007
  • Reports from Coastal Stations 2007

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Issue 32 (Autumn 2007)

  • Revisions to the Moths Included Within the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
  • National Moth Night in The Netherlands
  • Captive Rearing of Netted Carpet Eustroma reticulatum
  • Odonata as Indicators of Climate Change
  • Naturalised Stick-insects in South-west England
  • Conogethes punctiferalis: a Moth New to Britain and Europe

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Issue 31 (Spring 2007)

  • Silvery Gem Eucarta virgo and Shining Marbled Pseudeustrotia candidula: New to Britain
  • Wild Pre-Hibernation Larvae of the Silurian Eriopygodes imbecilla
  • Uresiphita reversalis: A Moth New to Britain and Europe?
  • Butterflies and Moths of Hungary
  • Separation of Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis and Scarce Dagger A. auricoma
  • The Impact of the Warming Trend on Lepidoptera Species in the UK
  • Spread of the Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Late 2006
  • Reintroduction of the Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia to Cumbria
  • National Moth Night 2006

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Issue 30 (Winter 2006/2007)

  • American Painted Lady Vanessa virginiensis on the Isles of Scilly
  • Occurrences of the Rarer Immigrants Moths in 2006
  • Migrant Dragonflies in 2006
  • Conservation of the Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages and Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae in the East Midlands
  • Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket Phaneroptera falcata
  • A Year to Remember in Lancashire
  • Reports from Coastal Stations 2006

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Issue 29 (autumn 2006)

  • National Moth Night (and Day) 2005
  • National Moth Night in the Netherlands
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies at Artificial Light
  • Overwintering by Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta in Britain and North-west Europe
  • Fluctuation within Garden Tiger Arctia caja Populations

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Issue 28 (COLOUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)

  • Photographing Caterpillars
  • Discovery of the Rosy Marsh Moth Coenophila subrosea in South Cumbria
  • Forms of Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope
  • Survey of Pyrausta sanguinalis in Northern Ireland
  • The Changing Trends of Britain's Odonata
  • 1996-2006: Ten Years of Butterfly Recording, Monitoring and Conservation
  • The Mid-Cornwall Moors LIFE Project: Conservation of the Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia at Landscape Level
  • Distribution and Identification of the Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis
  • The Death's-head Hawk-moth Acherontia atropos in Italy

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Issue 27 (Winter 2005)

  • The Welsh Clearwing Synanthedon scoliaeformis
  • The Source of Bizarre Tiger Moth Records in Sussex
  • The First British Record of Patton's Tiger Hyphoria testudinaria
  • Wild Larvae of The Silurian Eriopygodes imbecilla
  • Records of Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa During 2005
  • 2005 Highlights and Reports from Coastal Stations

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Issue 26 (Summer/Autumn 2005)

  • The Rothamsted Light-trap Network
  • High Altitude Observations of Scotch Argus Erebia aethiops
  • Captive Rearing of Tamarisk Peacock Chiasmia aestimaria
  • Some significant Discoveries from Jersey in 2004
  • Towards a Labour-saving Trap

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Issue 25 (Spring 2005)

  • The History of Dusky Clearwing Paranthrene tabaniformis in Great Britain
  • The Distribution of the UK BAP Priority Moth Species
  • Natonal Moth Night (and Day) 2004
  • Scarlet Darters in Britain

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Issue 24 (Winter 2004/2005)

  • Immigrant Catocalid species in 2004
  • The State of Moth Recording in Britain
  • The first British Records of Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina
  • Scarce Swallowtail Ipichlides podalirius in Dorset
  • Recent Records of Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa in Britain
  • Southern Emerald Damselfly Lestes barbarus at Sandwich Bay, Kent

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Issue 23 (Summer/Autumn 2004)

  • Dragonfly Vernacular Names
  • Jersey Mocha Cyclophora ruficiliaria New to the British Isles
  • Species Profile: Brindled Ochre Dasypolia templi
  • American Painted Lady Vanessa virginiensis on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly
  • Cosmopterix pulchrimella Now Resident in Mainland Britain
  • Identification of Red Darters Sympetrum spp.
  • Impact of Coppicing Upon Scarce Hook-tip Sabra harpagula

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Issue 22 (Spring 2004) Out Now

  • The Winter Immigration of 2004
  • National Moth Night 2003
  • Durham's Dragonflies
  • Forewing Laterality
  • Moth Photography: Down the Digital Road
  • Moth-trapping Etiquette
  • Splendid Brocade Lacanobia splendens - the first British Records

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Issue 21 (Winter 2004)

  • Past Breeding Evidence of Willow Emerald Damselfly Chalcolestes viridis in Kent
  • Notes on the Distribution of Square-spotted Clay Xestia rhomboidea in the British Isles
  • An Update on Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum at its First Known British Sites
  • Butterfly Islands
  • County Focus: Gloucestershire
  • Burnet Moths on the Isle of Mull
  • Rarer Immigrant Lepidoptera in 2003
  • Migrant Dragonflies in 2003
  • Reports from Coastal Stations

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Issue 20 (Summer/Autumn 2003)

  • A Brief Review of the UKBAP Plan for Moths
  • Clancy's Rustic: The First British Record
  • Return of the Southern Damselfly to an Historic Site in Dorset
  • Separating Rosy Rustic and Butterbur
  • Discovery of the Large Cone-head on the Isles of Scilly
  • The Rosy Marsh Moth of Borth Bog
  • Digiscoping Insects

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Issue 19 (Spring 2003)

  • Historical Status and potential Sources of Stephens' Gem Megalographa biloba
  • Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma Viridulum Records in 2002
  • Difference Between Langmaid's Yellow Underwing Noctua janthina and Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing N.janthe
  • Scarce Blackneck Lygephila Craccae
  • National Moth Night 2002
  • Influx of Camberwell Beauty Aglais antiopa to North-West Europe in 1995

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Issue 18 (Winter 2003)

  • Southern Emerald Damselfly Lestes barbarus: The First British Record
  • The Latin Callopistria juventina in Dorset: the third British Record
  • Migrant Butterfly, Moth and Dragonfly reports for 2002
  • National Moth Night 2003 and the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
  • The Last of the Great Traps
  • My Worst Day

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Issue 17 (August 2002)

  • The history and status of Large Tortoiseshell Aglais polychloros
  • Dragonflies: Ancient animals under threat
  • The hunt for the Southern Oak Bush-cricket Meconema meridionale
  • Searching for Sandhill Rustic Luperina nickerlii
  • Status of Pale Clouded Yellow Colias hyale on the Dengie Peninsula
  • Key To Pugs
  • Square-spotted Clay Xestia rhomboidea

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Issue 16 (April 2002)

  • Identification and status of American Painted Lady Vanessa virginiensis in the British Isles
  • Thorn identification
  • Grass Webworm Herpetogramma licarsisalis - the second British record
  • National Moth Night 2001
  • Clearwing recording during 2001
  • Southern Skimmer Orthetrum brunneum
  • Agrotis graslini - New to the Channel Islands

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Issue 15 (January 2002)

  • Range expansion of Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum
  • Southern Skimmer Orthetrum brunneum on Guernsey
  • Second brood Silver-studded Blue Plebejus argus
  • Dioryctria sylvestrella: New to Britain and Ireland
  • Observations on False Mocha Cyclophora porata
  • Migrant summaries and coastal reports for 2001

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Issue 14 (August 2001)

  • Jubilee Fan-foot Herminia lunalis in Dorset: the second British record
  • The Sussex perspective to the national biodiversity action plan for the Waved Carpet Hydrelia sylvata
  • Real's Wood White Leptidea reali: A Butterfly new to Britain and Ireland
  • Thoughts on the identification of Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope
  • A year in the life of a Clouded Yellow Colias croceus colony
  • Butterfly introductions - Wisdom or folly
  • Range expansions in the Light Brown Apple-Moth Epiphyas postvittana

Issue 13 (April 2001)

  • Identification of common Aeshna hawkers
  • National Moth Night 2000
  • Expanding Butterfly Populations and Climate Change
  • Identification of Second Brood Clay Triple-lines Cyclophora linearia
  • Separation of Treble-bar Aplocera plagiata and Lesser Treble-bar A. efformata
  • Managing Your Garden to Attract Insects
  • Moth Transects

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Issue 12 (January 2001)

  • Clearwing Hunting in the 21st Century
  • Butterflies in Northern Ireland
  • The Status of Small Red-eyed Damselfly E. viridulum in the British Isles
  • Another Record of Green Darner
  • Ferry Trips }hrough the Bay of Biscay to Los Llanos, Santurtzi
  • Reports From Coastal Stations 2000
  • Migrant Butterflies and Dragonflies in 2000

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Issue 11 (August 2000)

  • Site Guide: The Burren
  • Identifying November Moths
  • Site Guide: Folkestone Warren
  • The Many-lined Costaconvexa polygrammata
  • National Moth Night and the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
  • An Annotated Checklist to the Odonata of Britain and Ireland 

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Issue 10 (April 2000)

  • Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis on an oil rig in the North Sea
  • Searching for White-spotted Pinion Cosmia diffinis
  • County Focus: Sussex
  • Identification of Egyptian Bollworm Earias insulana and Spiny Bollworm E. biplaga
  • Identification of Southern Migrant Hawker Aeshna affinis
  • The Action for Threatened Moths Project
  • The 1999 winter immigration

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Issue 9 (January 2000)

  • Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum: new to Britain
  • The 1999 Monarch Danaus plexippus influx
  • Oak Rustic Dryobota labecula: new to Britain
  • 1999 migrant reports
  • Second generation of Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia
  • Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope breeding in Cornwall
  • National Moth Night 1999

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Issue 8 (August 1999)

  • Successful overwintering by Clouded Yellow Colias croceus
  • An influx of Blossom Underwing Orthosia miniosa into the UK
  • Sclerocona acutellus in Devon
  • Past and present status of Norfolk Hawker Aeshna isosceles
  • Potential vagrant damselflies
  • English names of moths
  • Species profile: Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella

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Issue 7 (April 1999)

  • Site Guide: Wicken Fen
  • Identification of Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum
  • The RSPB and Odonata conservation
  • Winter butterfly flight in Britain
  • Separating Lesser-spotted Pinion Cosmia affinis, White-spotted Pinion C. diffinis and Lunar-spotted Pinion C. pyralina

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Issue 6 (January 1999)

  • Green Darner: the first records of an American dragonfly in Europe
  • Small Ranunculus Hecatera dysodea breeding in Kent
  • Directory of county recorders
  • 1998 migrant reports
  • Purple Marbled Eublemma ostrina and Small Marbled E. parva in 1998

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Issue 5 (April 1998)

  • Queen of Spain Fritillary Issoria lathonia: a new British breeding species?
  • The 1998 winter immigration
  • Overwintering Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta and Painted Lady Cynthia cardui
  • Viper’s Bugloss Hadena irregularis and Spotted Sulphur Emmelia trabealis RIP
  • The apparent responses of European Lepidoptera to climate change
  • Identification of Northern Arches Apamea zeta assimilis
  • County Focus: The Bristol District
  • Butterflies of North Warren Nature Reserve, Suffolk

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Issue 4 (January 1998)

  • Geranium Bronze Cacyreus marshalli in Sussex
  • The 1997 Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae influx
  • A Book About Caterpillars (an insight into the production of Jim Porter’s Colour Identification Guide to the Caterpillars of the British Isles)
  • Scarlet Darter Crocothemis erythraea on the Isle of Wight
  • Separating The Rustic Hoplodrina blanda and The Uncertain H. alsines
  • A moth in the ear (how to get out of an unusual predicament)

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Issue 3 (July 1997)

  • Site Guide: Portland Bill, Dorset
  • Potential new British moths
  • The Scottish Highlands in late May
  • County Focus: Warwickshire
  • Separation of Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria and Mottled Beauty Alcis repandata
  • Species Profile: Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon
  • The history of Orange Upperwing Jodia croceago in the British Isles
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Issue 2 (January 1997)

  • Separation of Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidea and Svenssons Copper Underwing A. berbera
  • Plumed Fan-foot Pechipogo plumigeralis: new to Britain and Ireland
  • Streaked Plusia Trichoplusia vittata: new to Europe
  • 1996 migration reports
  • Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope: the first British record

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    Issue 1 (May 1996)

    • The 1995 Camberwell Beauty Aglais antiopa influx
    • The 1995 Monarch Danaus plexippus influx
    • The 1995 darter Sympetrum spp. influx
    • History of Radford’s Flame Shoulder Ochropleura leucogasta and Tunbridge Wells Gem Chrysodeixis acuta in the British Isles
    • Reports from coastal stations

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