The Manchester Museum’s Entomology Department welcomes a wide array of visitors, from scientists coming to study our extensive insect collections to designers and artists exploring the diversity of shapes, colours or patterns of the many thousands of creepy-crawlies deposited here. On the 17th of June, the Entomology Department was visited by Ms Eleanor Mulhearn <eleanor@eightandahalf.co.uk>, [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Our visitors – Museum and the Visual Arts
Posted in Art Project, entomology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Museum Visitors, Public Events, Uncategorized on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Star objects of our collection – Corsican Swallowtail
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Nature Manchester, Uncategorized on June 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Corsican Swallowtail (Papilio hospiton) is restricted to the islands of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France) in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is extremely localized. It is found at altitudes 600-1500 m above sea level in the mountains. This species has declined dramatically through the impact of habitat destruction, commercial collecting and destruction of its [...]
Our visitors – beetles and deforestation of the British uplands
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Museum Visitors, Nature Manchester, Uncategorized on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Natural history collections, as those of the Manchester Museum, act as ‘biological libraries’ and are unique locations for information. Many museum specimens have been collected over many decades and represent time series that document changing ecological circumstances and the consequences of such changes. A new research project entitled as ‘Prehistoric deforestation of upland Britain – [...]
Star objects of our collection – The Sacred Scarab
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Insect Mythology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Nature Manchester, Uncategorized on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Sacred Scarab (Scarabaeus sacer) is the most famous species of scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae), and one of many thousands species that make their living from utilizing dung. On average, about 40% of the food intake of animals is either excreted as urine or passed out of the body as faeces. This waste is decomposed [...]
