Christmas Greetings...

To all followers of The Purple Empire - 

(This wont end well. They hate each other's guts!)

 

Apatura iris Genome

Feeling very privileged to be granted access to the early draft of the first Apatura iris genome data which will ultimately be released under the Darwin Tree of Life Project. Really great to see that folks are making good progress with this.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

  This year's hibernating larvae are named after some of our politicians ('Donald', 'Boris', 'Margaret Hilda' etc.), so I wont be too upset if they get eaten by tits.  Here's 'Jacob', a lovely mottled grey form -