In September 2008, the Manchester Museum acquired a small collection of a few spider specimens taken from the Kunashir Island, one the southern Kurile Islands, the Far East. This collection contained two males and three females of a unique and very rare species of wolf-spiders, namely, the Japanese Sandy-Beach Wolf-Spider (Lycosa inshikariana; see on the [...]
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Star objects of our collection – The Japanese Sandy-Beach Wolf-Spider
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Manchester Museum, Nature Manchester, Research, Spiders, Uncategorized on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our visitors – spiders, cockroaches and the art
Posted in Art Project, Biodiversity, entomology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Museum Visitors, Nature Manchester, Spiders, Uncategorized on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Following her first visit in June (see our post on 28th June, 2010), Ms Eleanor Mulhearn <eleanor@eightandahalf.co.uk>, a teacher on the Design and Visual arts BA at Stockport College, continues to visit the MM’s Entomology Department and to explore our bug-related resources. Her new report is included in this post. Spiders, cockroaches, moths and woodlice [...]
Children’s spider visit during the Manchester Science Festival
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Manchester Museum, Museum Visitors, Nature Manchester, Public Events, Spiders, Uncategorized on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The past week (25-29th of October) at the Manchester Museum was devoted to the Manchester Science Festival. Visitors not only enjoyed permanent and temporary museum exhibitions, participated in numerous activities arranged for them by the museum staff, but also visited certain collection areas hidden behind the scenes. Amongst visitors to the Museum’s Entomology Department there [...]
Our visitors – an art project with bees and spiders
Posted in Art Project, Biodiversity, entomology, Insects, Manchester Museum, Research, Spiders, Uncategorized on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, the Manchester Museum’s Entomology Department was visited by Miss Frances Rocco, a third-year art student from the MMU. Frances just started her final year at the university and is thinking of using our collections for her final project. She spent over two weeks working in the Entomology Department, examining and drawing various bugs: bees, [...]
Research – Giant brides and dwarf grooms, a story of sexual size dimorphism in spiders
Posted in Biodiversity, entomology, Evolution, Manchester Museum, Nature Manchester, Research, Spiders, Uncategorized on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent research by Dr Dmitri Logunov, the Curator of Arthropods of the Manchester Museum, has been devoted to a group of large burrowing wolf spiders (Lycosidae) from Central Asia. A new, unknown to science genus of the wolf spiders, with five new species, has been discovered. Some of the new species exhibit the pronounced [...]
