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The Canadian Entomologist
Field investigation of mating behaviour of Agrilus cyanescens and Agrilus subcinctus2011 •
Wordsworth Circle 51.3 (2020): 338-59
Unheard Swarms: John Clare and Romantic Entomology2020 •
Inspired by recent studies of Romantic botany and geology, this essay explores the intersection of the rise of the modern science of entomology and the insect poetics of the English laboring-class poet John Clare. Besides the formation of the Entomological Society of London (1833), Clare’s time saw the publication of William Spence and William Kirby’s Introduction to Entomology (1815-26), and John Curtis’s British Entomology (1824-39). Building on the common language that Romantic writers applied to the poetic imagination and the insect world (Coleridge’s “endless variety of form”), Kirby, Spence, and others traced the origins of song to insect sounds; moreover, they associated intention, mind, expression, and reception with insect motion and antennae. Returning to the poetic entomology of the so-called Northamptonshire peasant, I argue, affords a vision of new nonhuman concepts of affect, language, aesthetics, and intelligence. A natural historian and descriptive poet, Clare builds on Kirby’s and Spence’s insights to account for the ways in which insects mediate between plant and animal kingdoms, local and global natures, and textual and real materials (ink and paper derived in part from insect life during the period). Coordinating the perceptive powers of the nature poet and the entomologist, Clare aligns the size, complexity, and camouflage of what he terms the “insect-world” (The Shepherd’s Calendar, [1827]) with the brevity, subtlety, and opacity of lyric form (Keats, Smith, and Wordsworth also wrote sonnets on insects). Romantic entomology, which includes Clare’s farsighted poetic vision of weather-wise beetles, signifying grasshoppers, and ant architects, not only revises the “animal claim” that Tobias Menely has recently identified with the poetics of sensibility, but also anticipates present-day scientific discussions of nonhuman forms of rhythm, memory, temporality (the term “beetle” is an archaic word for “clock”), organization, and mass communication. To be sure, buzzing Romantic-era bugs suggest, on the one hand, the swarming clouds of universal pestilence, and, on the other, the juvenile microenvironments of minute ephemera. Simultaneously accounting for human famines and insect victims (the minute and helpless prey of the sporting boys and stalking birds whose songs scholars have more often analyzed), Clare’s insect poetics figures and anticipates a twenty-first century concern: a species capable of simultaneously representing the agent and object of ecological calamity.
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Attraction factors for Paederus fuscipes ' dispersal, a vector of Paederus dermatitis towards human residential premisesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Field observations of visual attraction of three European oak buprestid beetles toward conspecific and heterospecific models2011 •
Journal of Renewable Materials
A Review of Various Sources of Chitin and Chitosan in NatureThe Canadian Entomologist
Influence of wing loading on Colorado potato beetle flight2004 •
American Entomologist
Deciphering the Rosetta Stone of Insect Chemical Communication2014 •
Higher Education South Africa (HESA)
Joining the Academic Life South African Students Who Succeed at University Despite Not Meeting Standard Entry Requirements2014 •
Zoological Journal of The Linnean Society
The evolution of mating systems in bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae)1983 •
U.S. Army Medical Department journal
Outbreak of dermatitis linearis caused by Paederus ilsae and Paederus iliensis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) at a military base in Iraq2019 •
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International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology
Investigation of mechanical properties of crab shell: a review2016 •