Entomology

Monthly Archive: December Ento

Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition

Posted: December 16, 2014 - 11:31 , by ROM
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Library and Archives, Insects, Entomology
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Grasshopper

The ROM Library has recently acquired an edition of E. A. Séguy’s Insects, published in the 1920s. The book contains highly coloured and detailed full-page illustrations of insects, executed in the expensive pochoir printing technique favoured at this time. 

Discovery of jumping behaviour in a caterpillar, Calindoea trifascialis, in Vietnam

Posted: August 21, 2013 - 08:41 , by royal
Categories: 
Entomology, Biodiversity, From the Field, Collections
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Former ROM grad student Kim Humphreys (lead author) and I recently published an article in the scientific journal Biology Letters describing yet another fascinating behavior of the caterpillar Calindoea trifascialis.