Starting an insect collection: How to label a specimen with collecting data.
How to label your insects with collecting data ? You will find in this article the guidelines to label your insects and a downloadable Excel template to easily print your labels. The importance of labeling your insects It is essential to label your...
Starting an insect collection: How to mount a butterfly
Why you should learn how to mount a butterfly ? Mounting a butterfly is a key technique you must master in order to build a nice insect collection. Knowing how to spread a butterfly will be very useful : - to spread the butterfly you collect yourself, - to buy...
Insects in Slow Motion
Insects look amazing in high-speed video....Chile is home to over 10,000 insect species. They all look beautiful in Phantom High-Speed. See footage taken with Vision Research Phantoms. If you need to study an aspect of some insect in slow motion, speak to us....
South African Government Covid-19 Portal
As per regulations in Government Gazette Vol 657, 26 March 2020, No. 43164 Clause 5.1.4 of the regulations, please use the following link to access the South African Government Covid-19 Portal www.sacoronavirus.co.za.”
Country wide shut down
Note - due to the shut down, no deliveries can be effected. However we are still active, taking orders, giving quotations etc. Deliveries will begin again as soon as allowed.
Imidacloprid, one of the neonicotinoid group of pesticides, cause permanent brain damage in baby bumblebees.
Certain pesticides cause permanent brain damage in baby bumblebees and may threaten the future success of colonies, researchers from Imperial College London have found. The study scanned the brains of bees exposed to imidacloprid, one of the neonicotinoid group of...
One-year-old flower strips already support a quarter of a city’s bee species
To combat the loss of flower-rich meadows, many cities are supporting greening measures, including the creation of flower strips. To assess the effectiveness of these measures in supporting flower-visiting insects, their faunas need to be compared to the background...
The polyphagous shot hole borer – Tree Killer
A recent article in The Conversation, gave a good summary of the state of affairs, and also asks some good questions! "More than two years have passed since the detection of what is arguably the most damaging tree pest ever to arrive in South Africa: the polyphagous...
Mad Hornet Entomological Supplies – New Website
After running for around 18 months, we decided to upgrade the website, to make it better and smoother. So Mad Hornet Entomological Supplies has a new website. The online ordering system is a lot smoother. However please note - that when "placing an order" here, it is...
Too much sugar in nectar ‘slows down bees’
Too much sugar in nectar slows down bees, a study has found. Bumblebees offload the nectar they drink from flowers by vomiting, but the more sugar nectar contains, the thicker and stickier it becomes - meaning it takes more time and energy for the bees to regurgitate...