A bit late for a report, but hey, insect images are always great, so here we go. The insect fair in Kloten, Zurich, Switzerland is a smaller fair, but draws a good number of visitors. I had attended last year’s fair, but not written about it afterwards, after a break of 5 years, due to […]
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The insect fair in Kloten is held every year once. Last year I missed it, but this year I was free. It is a rather small insect fair, but looked like a good place especially for Lepidopterologists. There were quite a few sellers of alive insects, but to my slight disappointment, not a single one […]
READ MORE »I finally found the time to visit the insect fair in Prague again. As before, the fair is quite good to get in touch with collectors and to also get access to materials with very good collection data and a good assortment of palearctic species. The fair is mostly about deadstock, but one or the […]
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I was always wondering why insect exhibitions in museums were always just dried and pinned insects in boxes. Well, for an enthusiast like me, this was a fantastic thing, as I could see a maximum number of specimen in small space. I did however observe that my family and other people were just glancing through, […]
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Last weekend was the international insect fair in Frankfurt am Main, in Germany. It is one of the biggest insect fairs, with a heavy focus on specimen, and to a much lesser content living invertebrates. That said, it has always been a major event, and the sheer amount of insects, common and rare, never fail […]
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