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Tag: NHM

Science Uncovered!

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 26, 2011September 26, 2011

Last Friday I had the pleasure of helping out at the Natural History Museum’s yearly “Science Uncovered” event. For one evening the museum opens its…

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The OPAL cabinets are complete!

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 5, 2010March 19, 2010

At long last I am very pleased to say that the OPAL cabinet project is finished! Yesterday I collected the final batch of drawers from…

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New unit trays

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 31, 2010February 5, 2010

Whilst at the NHM last week Max Barclay kindly sorted me out with some new unit trays for the OPAL-funded cabinets. I have spent a…

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Back to the NHM again …

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 30, 2010February 1, 2010

Recently I had a few chances to go back to the NHM in London and work with the world Diptera collections – it was marvellous!…

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Bibiomima handlirschi

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 29, 2010January 30, 2010

One of my favourite flies from my recent NHM visits is the amazingly marked Bibiomima handlirschi, a rare phasiine tachinid from Central & South America.…

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Some Argentinian, Bolivian & Costa Rican tachinids

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 16, 2009August 7, 2011

A few of the more dramatic specimens from the neotropics a sample kindly donated by Martin Hauser 🙂  Identifications were derrived by comparing ot material…

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The cabinets have arrived!!

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 17, 2009January 31, 2010

I have just spent a really fun day with 2 friends of mine, Becca & John, driving up to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in…

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OPAL re-housing project starts …

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 23, 2009January 31, 2010

The funding hasn’t come through yet but I always planned to make a contribution myself so last Friday I bought the first 20 drawers from…

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Beskia aelops (fg-taxon #44)

by ChrisRPosted onApril 4, 2009August 27, 2011

This is a strange dexiine tachinid with and extremely long proboscis and long antennae. The curl on this specimen’s antennae may have been caused by…

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