I'm excited for this year's autumn addition to your channel. Fall is my favorite season though summer has a lot of exciting insects, I just can't handle the heat like alot of people lol. Aside from that this is a great video. Thank you for sharing. I'd like to get a book about insects in my area. I'm sure I can find something similar. Again thank you Trevor!
You're welcome Jenny, and welcome to Autumn 🍂 😀 It is a lovely time of the year with the changing leaves and the lower temperatures, just can have a slightly melancholy feeling to me sometimes. But there are many things to still look for to keep us busy. I used to love the heat and I'd lie in it all day long in the 1980's, but not now. But a nice September day is usually just perfect here, in terms of temperature and I do like the transfer from Summer to Autumn ❤️
In the US back in the day one of my first comprehensive books was Audobon Society Field guide to North American Insects and Spiders. It gave me a deeper understanding of inverts as a youngster.. However after years of delving deeper into the subject a couple of mistakes were found. In their defense information is always changing and updating. I really do enjoy your videos. You guys have many fascinating species as well. 👍👍👍
Thank you. We do have some great insects over here (as we all do in our respective countries) and my late wife and I always tried to get across, just what a range of insects we actually have. Thanks for commenting, you certainly have some species in America, which I am envious of.
I kept very few items from my university days in the early 80's (BC, Canada) but the sole book left is my Borror, De Long and Triplehorn 'An Introduction to the Study of Insects' and I'll never get rid of it, although it's not really for field identification.
I think most of us probably have that one book which we always referred to growing up, and thumbed through continuously. I've sill got mine, even though it is very basic by today's standards, but it helped to instill an interest many years ago.
@@theramblingentomologist This one was the textbook for the advanced course, back when you had to make a mounted collection to pass. You needed a good stereoscopic microscope to use it. Those were fun days.
My excessively thumbed first edition Chinery is looking very sad and abused and wildly out of date. I used to have a set of smaller hardback field guides in the 70s that covered each order of invertebrate, but they are hidden away somewhere long forgotten, I can’t even recall the publisher. I did a quick web hunt and didn’t see them there either. They were superb.
@@theramblingentomologist my best guide was as an 8 year old, about twice a month I’d get the train and the tube on my own to the natural history museum. I’m sure it wouldn’t happen today with the child safeguarding legislation, but the curator of the entomology section used to let me spend the day in the vaults with free access to the millions of specimens. Then they would test me the next time I came, the near infinite capacity of juvenile neuroplasticity, lucky if I recall yesterdays dinner nowadays.
I really must get down to see the NHM one day, especially as the curator has kindly sent some of the Tapinoma ants I found at a garden centre recently, over to Hong Kong for identification, and is very kindly doing DNA sequencing on them too. Somewhere, I've always wanted to visit.
@@theramblingentomologist Put in a request for the curators to show you in the vaults or it’s not of huge value to you. I particularly remember there being thousands of specimens of peppered moth, pre and post Industrial Revolution, looking at the changes in patterning. It’s exactly like an iceberg, vastly more underneath than above surface. You are providing a valuable public awareness/education service and as such I’m sure they would welcome you in and I would have thought they would be happy for you to film. I’d also guess it’s gone beyond the collection and cataloguing mandate and more than likely working on conservation and reintroduction projects.
A difficult subject, what is the best book, we’ll keep an eye out for Mr Brock, a useful book to keep in the car. I see you are at 998 subscribers, I’m sure you’ll track the magical milestone in the next few days. Love your videos, so calming and interesting, you are one of only a handful of channels that my wife and I watch together 😊
Thank you and yes, I'm almost at the 1000 subs mark. It's taken over two years to get this far and it has been a long-awaited achievement in the making, so spread the word. I'm also extremely pleased to have brought a married couple something they can watch together. That's definitely something I'm pleased to have done 😀
Hi Trevor Just down the allotment loads of red admirals so done a quick vid and mentioned it and posted on twitter as well, picking apples and just had a comma land on my tub almost on my arm so filmed that too and will post shortly again with a mention to get you to that 1000 I hope
I would LOVE a HUGE book just on international Insects and Arachnids, like the one by DK called "ANIMAL". It really is a hefty one, the biggest book I got!
No I haven't. It's unsuitable for those identical species when only dissection is needed to determine the species. I can understand why people use it and similar apps though.
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Paul Brock's books are superb and have all three. Your website is also brilliant and long may it continue
Thanks Darren. For some reason, only just seen your post.
I'm excited for this year's autumn addition to your channel. Fall is my favorite season though summer has a lot of exciting insects, I just can't handle the heat like alot of people lol. Aside from that this is a great video. Thank you for sharing. I'd like to get a book about insects in my area. I'm sure I can find something similar. Again thank you Trevor!
You're welcome Jenny, and welcome to Autumn 🍂 😀 It is a lovely time of the year with the changing leaves and the lower temperatures, just can have a slightly melancholy feeling to me sometimes. But there are many things to still look for to keep us busy. I used to love the heat and I'd lie in it all day long in the 1980's, but not now. But a nice September day is usually just perfect here, in terms of temperature and I do like the transfer from Summer to Autumn ❤️
In the US back in the day one of my first comprehensive books was Audobon Society Field guide to North American Insects and Spiders. It gave me a deeper understanding of inverts as a youngster.. However after years of delving deeper into the subject a couple of mistakes were found. In their defense information is always changing and updating. I really do enjoy your videos. You guys have many fascinating species as well. 👍👍👍
Thank you. We do have some great insects over here (as we all do in our respective countries) and my late wife and I always tried to get across, just what a range of insects we actually have. Thanks for commenting, you certainly have some species in America, which I am envious of.
I kept very few items from my university days in the early 80's (BC, Canada) but the sole book left is my Borror, De Long and Triplehorn 'An Introduction to the Study of Insects' and I'll never get rid of it, although it's not really for field identification.
I think most of us probably have that one book which we always referred to growing up, and thumbed through continuously. I've sill got mine, even though it is very basic by today's standards, but it helped to instill an interest many years ago.
@@theramblingentomologist This one was the textbook for the advanced course, back when you had to make a mounted collection to pass. You needed a good stereoscopic microscope to use it. Those were fun days.
My excessively thumbed first edition Chinery is looking very sad and abused and wildly out of date. I used to have a set of smaller hardback field guides in the 70s that covered each order of invertebrate, but they are hidden away somewhere long forgotten, I can’t even recall the publisher. I did a quick web hunt and didn’t see them there either. They were superb.
Yes, afraid Chinery is well out of date now, but it helped me until a few years ago.
@@theramblingentomologist my best guide was as an 8 year old, about twice a month I’d get the train and the tube on my own to the natural history museum. I’m sure it wouldn’t happen today with the child safeguarding legislation, but the curator of the entomology section used to let me spend the day in the vaults with free access to the millions of specimens. Then they would test me the next time I came, the near infinite capacity of juvenile neuroplasticity, lucky if I recall yesterdays dinner nowadays.
I really must get down to see the NHM one day, especially as the curator has kindly sent some of the Tapinoma ants I found at a garden centre recently, over to Hong Kong for identification, and is very kindly doing DNA sequencing on them too. Somewhere, I've always wanted to visit.
@@theramblingentomologist Put in a request for the curators to show you in the vaults or it’s not of huge value to you. I particularly remember there being thousands of specimens of peppered moth, pre and post Industrial Revolution, looking at the changes in patterning. It’s exactly like an iceberg, vastly more underneath than above surface.
You are providing a valuable public awareness/education service and as such I’m sure they would welcome you in and I would have thought they would be happy for you to film. I’d also guess it’s gone beyond the collection and cataloguing mandate and more than likely working on conservation and reintroduction projects.
i love this video so much. i dont have a particular interest in insects or bugs but i liked watching this... very interesting video !
Thank you, that's very kind of you and I really appreciate it.
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Hi, by any chance do you have book recommendation for south east asia insect or butterfly?
Hi, and thanks for asking, but I'm very sorry to say that I don't have any recommendations I could suggest for you. Sorry.
A difficult subject, what is the best book, we’ll keep an eye out for Mr Brock, a useful book to keep in the car.
I see you are at 998 subscribers, I’m sure you’ll track the magical milestone in the next few days.
Love your videos, so calming and interesting, you are one of only a handful of channels that my wife and I watch together 😊
Thank you and yes, I'm almost at the 1000 subs mark. It's taken over two years to get this far and it has been a long-awaited achievement in the making, so spread the word.
I'm also extremely pleased to have brought a married couple something they can watch together. That's definitely something I'm pleased to have done 😀
Hi Trevor
Just down the allotment loads of red admirals so done a quick vid and mentioned it and posted on twitter as well, picking apples and just had a comma land on my tub almost on my arm so filmed that too and will post shortly again with a mention to get you to that 1000 I hope
I would LOVE a HUGE book just on international Insects and Arachnids, like the one by DK called "ANIMAL". It really is a hefty one, the biggest book I got!
Think I've seen a copy of that at sometime. It did look pretty hefty thing 🙂
In all honesty, I’ve used your site more than books lately!
I agree, not easy to have t ideal book!🤔😁
I think it's nigh on impossible Gillian 😀
Ever tried google lens?
No I haven't. It's unsuitable for those identical species when only dissection is needed to determine the species. I can understand why people use it and similar apps though.
@@theramblingentomologistWorks ok for plants and trees. Might give it go, using the phone macro, with the insects and see what happens.
Worth a try either way.