Posts Tagged ‘Blog’

Site Tinkering & New Banner

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I am the proud ownder of a new banner! Malin has done an excellent job, incorporating a pinned Cetonia aurata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

This marks the start of my adventures in changing the theme of my blog and having to learn some CSS and PHP. Changing the banner was more difficult than I imagined and I’ve not yet worked out how to get the perfect border around the banner.

Expect to some minor visual changes (probably the result of major work!) over the next few weeks.

Thanks Malin!

In other news: If you didn’t already know, Buglife lost its appeal against the the development of the West Thurrock Marshes and now has a legal bill of £30,000. A good commentary about this is given on The Ranger’s Blog.

Stats, News & Links

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Stats: I will be writing a post on statistics soon, but for the moment I though I’d share some of my visitor statistics with you, my visitors! We are halfway through January and I’ve already had over 800 unique visits and over 2,500 hits for the month. What I find more interesting (as a computer geek) are the browsers you are using and operating systems.

Browsers in order of popularity:

Graph of internet browser users

Firefox (Mozilla 5) was the most used browser with 224 users, followed by: Internet Explorer 6.0 (73 users), Internet Explorer 7.0 (55 users), Safari (8 users), and finally Internet Explorer 5.5 & 5.0 (8 users).

Operating systems in order of popularity:

Operating system popularity

Windows XP was the most used operating system with 260 users followed by: Windows Vista (15 users), MacOS (12 users) and Windows Server 2003 (3 users).

Windows XP 260 users
Windows Vista 15 users
MacOS 12 users
Windows Server 2003 3 users

I don’t know how representative of other blogs this is but I was a little suprised at how few people are using Vista. Unlike the internet average, more people are using Firefox here.

News: I’m planning to add some more sections to Sections soon, and possibly jazz up the appearance. I intend to write a couple of reviews on books and compile a recommended entomology book list.

I did intend to write a little about gaming on here, but I’ve decided that I will use this blog more for science-related things and put gaming on a separate page on my main site which is in need of more content!

Links: I’ve added quite a few more links recently including:
BioImages
Invertebrate Link
My Bit of the Planet
The Ranger’s Blog

Some of these were recommended to my by Stuart Hine – thanks Stuart!

Finally, a light entomophagy reading snack: have you ever thought about eating silkworms (Bombyx mori)? A Chinese research team has investigated silkworms as a potential food for astronauts.

Upgrade/Test

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I’ve just updated to the latest version of WordPress. I had one bug which I think I’ve fixed by editing and resaving a post which caused the sidebar to go to the bottom of the page and remove the posting background.

Hymettus Ltd. – Conservation of British & Irish Hymenoptera

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I was checking the BWARS website for 2009 events and found a link to Hymettus, a website for the conservation of British and Irish Hymenoptera.

They have conservation information sheets for bumble bees, a grassland cuckoo bee (Nomada armata) and a saltmarsh bee (Colletes halophilus). These information sheets contain some general biology, the conservation status and global and local distribution. They also have reports which cover a range of species.

If you’re interested in insect conservation or Hymenoptera then you should have a look at the website.

A vivid green sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae, Rhogogaster viridis *putative identification*) - Copyright Laurence Livermore/lofaesofa

Vince Smith’s Blog

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

I’ve recently encountered the blog of Vince Smith, a cybertaxonomist who also works on parasitic lice (Phthiraptera) at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London . I came across his blog by accident whilst searching for articles on invasive invertebrates and ants. He has a number of posts about the NHM and a fusion of technology and biology.

Events Calendar

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Today I added an events calendar and entered some of the Royal Entomological Society dates. I will add more dates over the weekend.

If I have missed any that you think should be on, or you notice an incorrect date, please let me know!

Update & Calendar

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

I’ve just updated the blogging software (this post is to check I’ve not broken anything) and should have the calendar plugin working over the weekend.


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