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Sexual Nature stick insects at the Natural History Museum
Submitted by Ed Baker on Thu, 02/06/2011 - 11:38amThe attached PDF is a report by one of the NHM volunteers looking after the stick insects in the Sexual Nature exhibition.
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AES Exhibition 2010
The 2010 (75th Anniversary) AES Exhibition and Trade Fairt will be on the 2nd October. Further details can be found here: http://www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/0330/
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Summer Meeting Photographs
Submitted by Ed Baker on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 2:03pmPhotographs the Summer 2010 PSG Meeting are now online at http://phasmid-study-group.org/category/Image-Galleries/8908.
If anybody else has photos they would like to share then please get in touch.
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AGM & Winter Meeting Competition Winners
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Merchandise
The new PSG Merchandise can be ordered from http://www.cafepress.co.uk/stickinsect.
Any ideas for new items should be sent using this form: http://phasmid-study-group.org/email/edbaker/personal.
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New forum design
The Phasmid Study Group forums have been given a facelift - please check them out at http://phasmid-study-group.org/forum. Anybody is welcome to post, even non-members. We hope to implement a members' only area soon.
Happy posting!
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Migration to Phasmida SpeciesFile taxonomy
Edited by Ed Baker on Tue, 17/11/2009 - 4:55pmIn a third major milestone in 24 hours the site has moved from using a partial phasmid taxonomy (used for development) to a complete phasmid taxonomy imported from Phasmida SpeciesFile. This means that taxon pages are now available for all phasmid taxa. The migration was done with the assistance of Simon Rycroft who works for the Scratchpad project.
This is the first stage in a more comprehensive cooperation with the Phasmida SpeciesFile, the next stage will see a SpeciesFile panel being added to taxon pages, allowing users to see what information Phasmida SpeciesFile has about that taxon complete with links to that information.
These milestones show that this website is rapidly becoming the most comprehensive online resource available to phasmid enthusiasts - not a bad achievement for two years work.
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3,000 pages (another milestone)
Submitted by Ed Baker on Tue, 17/11/2009 - 12:24pmThis blog post is the 3,000th page to be posted to this website. Although that figure under-estimates the true number of pages by a long way. The reason for this is the page counter (bottom of the left menu) counts each piece of content (link, image, publication) entered as a page. So it doesn't include the page automatically created for every phasmid taxon (another 4, 536 pages).
Although it may sound like a lot there is still a huge way to go - most species, even those currently kept in culture, we don't even have images for. So keep sending your content in!
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Half a million page views
Edited by Ed Baker on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 11:18pmWe have just passed the half-million views mark. Many thanks to all of the people who keep coming back and tell us what they like, and what's missing. So keep your feedback coming in!
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External Links
In order to make the Phasmid Study Group website (http://phasmid-study-group.org) more useful a change is being made to the way that links to external sites are being handled. These will now be displayed on the Knowledge Base and Species pages - and will be deep links (to particular pages on a website rather than just the front page. For an example see the Knowledge Base page on breeding and rearing: http://phasmid-study-group.org/category/Knowledge-Base/1191.
If you have suggestions for additional links (whether they be whole sites, sections of sites, or even just specific blog posts) please submit them to me via this form: http://phasmid-study-group.org/content/Submit-content.
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