Saturday 14 November 2015 and the BENHS Annual Exhibition trolled around again. It was the second year at Conway Hall in Holborn and by way of a contrast and comparison to last year, here’s another photo-essay, facetiously captioned but otherwise comment-free.
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- My exhibit was small, but perfectly formed, with just two species.
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- Oxythyrea funesta is a handsome chafer, turning up more regularly in the UK, and possibly a new colonist. It’ll soon need an English name.
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- Europe’s smallest beetle, but even with the magnifying glass was just about invisible.
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- Evolution gone mad. Don’t tell the creationists.
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- The customary presidential welcome from Claudia Watts.
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- Not an insect, but still pretty cool. Dendrobaena pygmaea, one of Britain’s smallest and rarest earthworms. Lives under rotten tree bark.
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- Striped hawk, always a handsome critter.
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- I just fancied this moth. Pretty. Do I imagine I see some image on the white wings? Weird.
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- Starting to thin out now.
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- Hymenopterists this was a disgrace. Two, count them, two exhibits.
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- Brilliantly bizarre galls caused by the brilliantly named midge Agathomyia wankowiczii, on Ganoderma bracket fungus. Still not seen this recent colonist.
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- Small, and last-minute, but proof that I did actually take an exhibit along this year.
My only criticism of the place is that the lighting there could do with some oomph, even if this were a series of table lamps.
See you again next year.
Richard Jones
Bugman Jones 
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