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Insects have often been a major source of inspiration, fear, and human curiosity. Their anatomy, behaviour, lifestyles are highly specialised and distinct from ours and many other animals. This sense of ‘otherness’ has links in all areas of human expression but there is a particularly prevalent connection insects and gothic culture. By looking into these…
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So! It’s been a while since you heard from us (at least, it’s been a couple months since we wrote that last blog post). What have we been up to? Beginning of the UKBOL Project The Project we have been excitedly working on over the last few months has been the UKBOL project (United Kingdom…
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Figure 1. The Eastern View of the museum on our first day, after walking in from the South Kensington Tube Station Hi! We are Baxter and Lucas, Undergraduate Students at Swansea University on placement at The Natural History Museum in London. We work supervised by Wasp Expert Dr. Gavin Broad in the Hymenopteran Collection as…