Beetle News
An informal email newsletter circulated periodically to those interested in British beetles, edited by Richard Wright from the British Beetles newsgroup; issue downloads and content listings below.
This service is provided as a convenience and is not operated by the newsgroup. Any queries should be directed to charlie@cucaera.co.uk
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Available issues:
- Volume 2:1 (March 2010) 589kb
- Editorial
- More websites for coleopterists
- Collection of Coleoptera from Carrion
- Aberrant antennae on a specimen of Kibunea minuta (L.)
- Bembidion fluviatile and other river-edge carabids in N. Wales
- Occurrence of Platyderus depressus (Carabidae) in Cheshire
- British Coleopterists represented in the collections of the Bombay Natural History Society
- Scarab dung beetles (Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae) on Great Orme, VC 49, including Aphodius conspurcatus
- Beginners’ Guide : The British species of Agriotes (Elateridae)
- Volume 1:4 (December 2009) 504kb
- Editorial
- Some Beetle Species New to Warwickshire in 2009
- On the food plants of Gymnetron villosulum
- Some Scottish ladybird records
- Additional records of Diaperis boleti (Tenebrionidae) from Surrey [VC17] during 2009
- Review - Guides to British Beetles
- New Shropshire Beetle Recording Group
- Cheap and simple materials for pitfall traps
- Beginners' Guide : The species of Glischrochilus (Nitidulidae)
- Volume 1:3 (October 2009) 622kb
- Editorial
- Open-source biological recording programme
- Colours in Anisodactylus poeciloides
- Recent records of Hylecoetus dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1761) (Lymexylidae) in Surrey (VC 17).
- Aging of Small Carrion to collect Coleoptera in summer
- Recent records of Ixapion variegatum (Wencker) in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire
- Otiorhynchus armadillo (Rossi) in Coventry, Warwickshire (VC 38)
- Atlas of the Coccinellidae of the British Isles.
- Ladybirds in Horncastle Lincolnshire
- Survey of stag beetle "larval incidents" in private gardens
- Beginner's Guide : Silphidae (Part 2)
- Volume 1:2 (July 2009) 11.8mb
- Editorial
- Pachyrhinus lethierryi (Desbrochers) present in Warwickshire (VC 38)
- Pooter for collecting Micro Coleoptera directly into alcohol filled vials
- Sitona lineatus (L.) (Curculionidae) at the seaside
- An abundance of Chrysomela populi Linnaeus in Warwickshire (VC 38)
- Uleiota planata (Linnaeus) in Britain, additional records from Warwickshire
- Commonly used chemicals for the Coleopterist and where to find them
- Wiltshire Beetles (new publication)
- Beetles of Warwickshire (CD Rom)
- Beginner's Guide : Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus
- Volume 1:1 (March 2009) 3.2mb
- Editorial
- Review: British Scraptiidae by Brian Levey
- Warwickshire Coleoptera - an update
- Somerset beetle records wanted
- Some observations on the Orange Ladybird
- Vivarium heat mats: a few suggested uses for the coleopterist
- Cassida nebulosa Linnaeus (Chrysomelidae) in flight
- News from recording schemes (Tenebrionoidea, Scirtidae, Stenini, Silphidae)
- Beetle publications for free download
- Beginner's Guide Silphidae 1: Nicrophorus
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