Atropos Journal

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all our readers! Enjoy the festive period. It won't be long before the Peacocks are waking from hibernation and testing their wings in the early spring sunshine!

06/12/2024

Looking for an Christmas Gift for a friend or relative?

Subscribe a friend or relative for six issues of Atropos this Christmas and they will receive:
* Two back issues (72 & 73) and the current issue (74)
* A FREE book from the Reaction book series (worth £13.95)
* And a FREE packet of Nicotiana seeds (worth £2.59)

Issues 75, 76 and 77 will be mailed out on publication

Visit the Atropos Bookshop site for the Atropos 6 subscription. https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/atropos-gift-subscription-2024?mc_cid=43bf1c003d&mc_eid=efc7d75ff2

27/11/2024

Visit https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/Christmas for some Christmas ideas.

We know it isn't quite December, but we've launched our Christmas page, with some gift ideas for Xmas. Take a look at https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/christmas for some special offers like these RSPB ID Spotlight foldout charts, just £18.99 for the set.

24/11/2024

Now available to order at Atropos Books

The latest volume of Andrew Duff's "Beetles of Britain and Ireland" is now available. Volume 2 coves the Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles) and includes keys to 1,148 species, 60 colour plates with 360 photos, plus black and white line drawings.

Order now from Atropos Books https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/beetles-of-britain-and-ireland-volume-2-staphylinidae

22/11/2024

Issue 74 of Atropos signed off and ready to print before mailing next week. In a very varied issue read about English names for micromoths, the larval stages of Southern Heath Grass-moth, the first British Record of Horehound Pearl, Southern Damselfly identification and much more. Subscribe now at https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/atropos-subscription

28/09/2024

We're up and running at the AES exhibition! A beautiful sunny day in Surrey.

08/09/2024

The latest Photo of the Month winner is Richard Mearns for this photograph of a Scarce Bordered Straw.

Congratulations to Richard Mearns for his winning shot of a Scarce Bordered Straw trapped on 26th August in Kirkton (Dumfries and Galloway).

Richard will receive a £20 voucher code to use against purchases from Atropos Books. Each Month, during Spring, Summer and Autumn, we select one image of a migrant submitted to Flight Arrivals as the Photo of the Month.

09/08/2024

Atropos Bookshop has plenty of books on grasshoppers and crickets, including the new Aidgap Guide " Orthoptera and Dermaptera: The Grasshoppers, Groundhoppers, Crickets and Earwigs of Central and Northern Britain and Ireland).

Do you know your crickets from your grasshoppers? A Long-winged Conehead from a Short-winged Conehead?

Atropos Books can help! We have a range of books on grasshoppers, crickets and related insects available on our website. Head over to https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/other-orders and take a look.

01/08/2024

Have you got your copy yet?

Our summer offer on the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland, means you can treat yourself to this amazing book for just £55, a saving of £25!!

This new publication includes specimens and live photos, representing all the pyralid species to have occurred in Britain and Ireland, plus distribution maps. Critical species diagrams, genitalia plates and identification pointers also feature in this exciting new publication.

Get your copy now by ordering at Atropos Books: https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/pyralid-and-crambid-moths-of-britain-and-ireland

31/07/2024

The latest winner of the Flight Arrivals Photo of the Month is Nigel Jarman. Well done Nigel.

The Photo of the Month winner for July 2024 is Nigel Jarman with this image of The Passenger, trapped on 18th July at Kingsdown, Kent. Nigel wins a £20 credit to be used against purchases at AtroposBooks.

For your chance to win, post your migrant moth, butterfly or dragonfly news with a supporting image to the Atropos Flight Arrivals page - https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/

14/07/2024

Final day at the Global Bird Fair. Come and see us in Swallow marquee stand 50. It's hard to believe we have been coming to the Rutland bird fair for more than 25 years! Always a pleasure to support this event, contribute to the conservation projects it funds and to meet our subscribers. Everyone is telling us how bad a year it has been for insects!

04/06/2024

Submit your migrant news to our Flight Arrivals (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/) with an image for your chance to win a £20 voucher to spend at Atropos Books,

The latest winner of the Photo of the Month is Ian Roberts with his photo of a Willowherb Hawkmoth trapped at Folkestone on the night of 24th May. Ian will receive a £20 voucher to use on purchases from Atropos Books. Congratulations Ian.

For your chance to win the Photo of the Month competition, submit your migrant news to Flight Arrivals (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/) with an image of the moth / butterfly / dragonfly.

25/12/2023

We would like to wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year with plenty of surprises in the year ahead. For those persisting with moth-traps there are still a few migrant and resident moths about in the mild weather and spring is on the distant horizon. Thanks for your support in 2023.