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Beetle News
Issue 1 of Beetle News featured a beginner's guide to the Silphidae such as this burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. © Richard Wright
Beetle News is an exciting new publication for people interested in beetles.
Beetle News is a quarterly (March, June, September and December), online publication and less experienced amateurs are encouraged to contribute articles and observations that may not be suitable for more formal publications. Beetle News is not an AES publication (although the AES provides an online archive of issues) but a public domain publication by Richard Wright. Richard can be contacted at: richardwrightuk@yahoo.co.uk
If you find Beetle News interesting, please pass it on to others.
Download all copies of Beetle News in a single Zip file (10Mb)
Issues of Beetle News
- Beetle News - Volume 4, Issue 2, October 2012 (PDF, 1Mb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- New Glow-worm book - Tim Gardiner
- Beetles on iSpot - Martin Harvey
- Joy's Greatest Couplets 1: couplet 14/15, page 386. - John Bratton
- Soldier beetles (Cantharidae) in the Speyside area of the Scottish Highlands, July 2012 - Keith Alexander
- A Few Interesting Records from Scotland - Chris Sullivan
- Notable Coleoptera recently recorded in Hertfordshire - Kevin McGee
- Are beetles and other invertebrates being neglected in pond surveys? - Richard Wright
- Michael Darby exhibition - Michael Darby
- The weevil Diaprepes abbreviata (Curculionidae) in Peterborough - John Bratton
- Observations of Cylindera germanica on the Jurassic Coast - Frank Ashwood
- Chrysolina americana (L.) (Col. Chrysomelidae), established outdoors in Barrow - Jim Thomas
- Book Review - Key to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 1) - Richard Wright
- Beginner's Guide : Beetles on Common Mallow Malva sylvestris - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2012 (PDF, 1.1Mb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Introductory photoguide to British beetles - advance notice - Richard Wright
- Beetle recording in Gloucestershire - an appeal for records - Keith Alexander
- Beetle recording in Cornwall - an appeal for records - Keith Alexander
- A major disadvantage of the 'Typomap' system for recording locality data - Andrew Duff
- An Australian weevil, Achopera alternata Lea, 1910 (Curculionidae), in Wales - John Bratton
- Flood Debris in Warwickshire, Spring 2012 - Richard Wright & Steve Lane
- Observations of Hypulus quercinus (Melandryidae) - John Bratton
- Westmorland Plateumaris sericea (Chrysomelidae): a clarification - John Bratton
- Philonthus parvicornis Gravenhorst in Kent - Ron Carr
- Eucnemids in Warwickshire - A Summary - Steve Lane
- Beginner's Guide : Broad-nosed weevils in broad-leaved trees - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Volume 3, Issue 3, October 2011 (PDF, 252Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Anobium inexpectatum/A. punctatum - Eric Philp
- Meadowsweet is a host of Cryptocephalus labiatus L. (Chrysomelidae) - John Bratton
- An Improved Suction Sampler Conversion - Clive Washington
- A Modification of Farrants mountant for use in examining Carabid gut contents - Andrew Chick
- Alternative foodstuffs of Coccinella septempunctata - Charlie Barnes
- Micrambe ulicis (Stephens) (Cryptophagidae) on cultivated blackcurrant - Andrew Duff
- Rhagium bifasciatum in the Lake District - Ron Carr
- Lycoperdina bovistae (Fabricius) in Kent - Ron Carr
- Paracorymbia fulva in Nottinghamshire - Brian Wetton
- Paracorymbia fulva - further information received - Richard Wright
- Beginner's Guide : The British species of Erotylidae and Tetratomidae (corrected) - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2011 (PDF, 595Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- The occurrence of three different Cionus sp. weevils on the flowering shrub Phygelia in a Gloucestershire garden - John Widgery
- Mogulones asperifoliarum (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) associated with Green Alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens. Jonty Denton & Scotty Dodd
- Paracorymbia fulva in Leicestershire - Part 2 - Graham Calow
- Another garden food plant for Cassida viridis - Richard Wright
- Helophorus dorsalis - A Mystery Solved - Steve Lane
- Stenolophus teutonus in Warwickshire - Steve Lane
- Chrysolina sanguinolenta at Poppit Sands, Pembs - David Search
- Review - Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland - Richard Wright
- Review - The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland Parts 7 and 8 - Richard Wright
- Beginner's Guide : The British species of Erotylidae and Tetratomidae - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2011 (PDF, 1.1Mb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Northern Coleopterists' Meeting - Tom Hubball
- Beetles of Warwickshire atlas (62Mb Zip) - free download - Richard Wright
- The Leicestershire Museum Coleoptera Collection - Steve Lane
- Buglife oil beetle survey - Andrew Whitehouse
- A good year for 7-spots? - Richard Wright
- Paracorymbia fulva in Leicestershire - Graham Calow
- Some phytophagous beetles from garden plants - an addendum - Clive Washington
- Interesting beetles found in Gloucestershire in 2010 - John Widgery
- Photographs of Geotrupes mandibles - John H. Bratton
- Beginner's Guide: Common longhorn beetles of England - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2010 (PDF, 1Mb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Free pdf downloads of beetle atlases - Richard Wright
- Some phytophagous beetles recorded from garden plants - Richard Wright
- New Somerset Recorders - Andrew Duff
- Hydrochara caraboides in Cheshire - Andy Harmer
- Endomychus coccineus (Linnaeus) (Endomychidae)- the bloody kneed beetle??- Jony Denton
- "Heathland" species in Warwickshire (VC38) - Richard Wright
- Rhagium bifasciatum - an orgy on a Scottish mountain - Ralph Atherton
- Beginner's Guide: Geotrupidae - Conrad Gillett and Aleš Sedláček
- Beetle News - Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2010 (PDF, 486Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- More websites for coleopterists - Richard Wright
- Collection of Coleoptera from Carrion - Andrew Chick
- Aberrant antennae on a specimen of Kibunea minuta (L.) - Michael Darby
- Bembidion fluviatile and other river-edge carabids in N. Wales. - John Bratton
- Occurrence of Platyderus depressus (Carabidae) in Cheshire - Clive Washington and Rachel Hacking
- British Coleopterists represented in the collections of the Bombay Natural History Society - Michael Darby
- Scarab dung beetles (Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae) on Great Orme, VC 49, including Aphodius conspurcatus - John Bratton
- Beginners' Guide : The British species of Agriotes (Elateridae) - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Issue 4, December 2009 (PDF, 402Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Some Beetle Species New to Warwickshire in 2009 - Steve Lane
- On the food plants of Gymnetron villosulum - Eric Philp
- Some Scottish ladybird records - Jony Denton & Scotty Dodd
- Additional records of Diaperis boleti (Tenebrionidae) from Surrey [VC17] during 2009 - Scotty Dodd
- Review - Guides to British Beetles - Richard Wright
- New Shropshire Beetle Recording Group - Pete Boardman
- Cheap and simple materials for pitfall traps - Richard Wright
- Beginners' Guide : The species of Glischrochilus (Nitidulidae) - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Issue 3, October 2009 (PDF, 622Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Open-source biological recording programme - Charlie Barnes
- Colours in Anisodactylus poeciloides - Richard Wright
- Recent records of Hylecoetus dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1761) (Lymexylidae) in Surrey (VC 17) - Scotty Dodd
- Aging of Small Carrion to collect Coleoptera in summer - Andrew Chick
- Recent records of Ixapion variegatum (Wencker) in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire - Steve Lane
- Otiorhynchus armadillo (Rossi) in Coventry, Warwickshire (VC 38) - Steve Lane
- Atlas of the Coccinellidae of the British Isles. - Helen Roy
- Ladybirds in Horncastle Lincolnshire - Charlie Barnes
- Survey of stag beetle "larval incidents" in private gardens - Maria Fremlin
- Beginner's Guide : Silphidae (Part 2) - Richard Wright
- Beetle News - Issue 2, July 2009 (PDF, 690Kb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Pachyrhinus lethierryi (Desbrochers) present in Warwickshire (VC 38) - Steve Lane
- Pooter for collecting Micro Coleoptera directly into alcohol filled vials - Michael Darby
- Sitona lineatus (L.) (Curculionidae) at the seaside - Frank Kenington
- An abundance of Chrysomela populi Linnaeus in Warwickshire (VC 38) - Steve Lane
- Uleiota planata (Linnaeus) in Britain, additional records from Warwickshire. - Steve Lane
- Commonly used chemicals for the Coleopterist and where to find them - Andy Chick
- Wiltshire Beetles (new publication) - Michael Darby
- Beetles of Warwickshire (CD Rom) - Richard Wright
- Beginner's Guide : Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus - Conrad P.D.T. Gillett and Marek Bunalski
- Beetle News - Issue 1, March 2009 (PDF, 3.3Mb)
Contents:- Editorial - Richard Wright
- Review: British Scraptiidae by Brian Levey - Richard Wright
- Warwickshire Coleoptera - an update - Steve Lane
- Somerset beetle records wanted - Andrew Duff
- Some observations on the Orange Ladybird - Ralph Atherton
- Vivarium heat mats : a few suggested uses for the coleopterist - Andrew Chick
- Cassida nebulosa Linnaeus (Chrysomelidae) in flight - Andrew Duff
- News from recording schemes (Tenebrionoidea, Scirtidae, Stenini, Silphidae) - Scotty Dodd, Jonty Denton, Richard Wright
- Beetle publications for free download - Richard Wright
- Beginner's Guide Silphidae 1: Nicrophorus - Richard Wright