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A small display on the work of Henry Walter Bates goes out tomorrow in the gallery.

A pop-up display exploring Henry Walter Bates. What's the big deal? Have a look on the blog:bit.ly/1Nsw0bz

Gina Allnatt 🐛-account no longer updated. Arranging new gallery display on Lepidoptera project and Henry Walter Bates Oxford University Museum of Natural History #teammoth

Cleaning up data for eventual migration onto new database. #allinadayswork

Steve Brooks on Natural History Museum UK butterfly collections and climate change science #NHMbioresponse

more butterflies- key players in climate change science, it seems ... Science at the Natural History Museum #NHMbioresponse

Steve Brooks - UK butterfly collections to study changes in phenology through industrial revolution #nhmbioresponse Science at the Natural History Museum NHM Data Portal

British butterflies that is. x.com/mark_carnall/s…

NHM iCollections database project showed biased Brit butterfly collecting with Sundays and August Bank Holiday being spikes #NHMbioresponse

Steve Brooks: all but 5 UK butterflies show earlier emergence over last century from collections and observation data #NHMbioresponse

Steve Brooks - some butterfly species may be approaching their limits of adaptation to climate change. #nhmbioresponse @

Scrutinising temperature data, warmer June temperatures affects size of males but not females in silver spotted skippers #NHMbioresponse

More on Natural History Museum digital collections and use for climate change science nhm.ac.uk/our-science/ou… #NHMbioresponse

The bumble bee hawk moth! New public domain image by Chris Johnson.

Bodleian Libraries I'm training my hogs up to form a small orchestra. This one is already competent with the organetto.

A very eclectic moth drawer- filled with net cocoons, microscopic slides, cases and snail shells. Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Dismorphia butterflies are in the same family as the Large White.They have adapted to mimic poisonous insects.

Striking New Butterfly Species Named After David Attenborough europe.newsweek.com/399943 #insects

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