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Flying Ant Day
What is Flying Ant Day? Flying ants often seem to appear on the same day in different locations in the UK – flying ant day. Most ant colonies start with a flying ant - when young queens leave the nest to found their own colony. However, our citizen...
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Ecology and Environment
Habitats, life-cycles and the interactions between various species and their environments are covered in this series of hands-on activity ideas and supporting printable resources. 1. Evolutionary Spot the Difference discussion posters. Most suitable...
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A sense of place
Tale L Bjerknes and May-Britt Moser explain how specialised cells deep in the brain continuously create cognitive maps of where we are and where things happened The Biologist 66(1) p10-13 How do we remember events from the past? The question has...
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Black History Month: Biologist and activist Margaret Collins, AKA 'the termite lady'
Margaret Collins in 1991 pictured outside the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C. Image courtesy of Herbert and Veronica Collins with thanks to Vernard Lewis. The Biologist explores the USA’s first Black...
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Photography Competition Winners 2014
The theme for the photography competition in 2014 theme was Home, Habitat and Shelter. The Society would like to congratulate the winners who were celebrated at the Biology Week Annual Award Ceremony. In the press The 2014 winners were featured in...
