British Myriapod and Isopod Group Newsletter

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Earlier (pre-BMIG) Newsletters are also available: British Myriapod Group Newsletter and British Isopod Study Group Newsletter. 

BMIG Newsletter 48 (Spring 2024) 

• BMIG AGM 2024; 
• Stephen Lawrence Sutton (1938 – 2023); 
• Some winter recording highlights; Scutigera makes BBC news!; 
• Arenophilus peregrinus found in France!; Symphyla back in fashion?; 
• Gribbles; ‘Inland’ Marine Isopods; 

BMIG Newsletter 47 (Autumn 2023)

• BMIG News; BMIG Annual Field Meeting and AGM 2024; BMIG Website Update; 
• Obituary – John Harper (1942-2022); Obituary – Des Kime (1932-2023);  
• Atlas of the Centipedes of Britain and Ireland; Animals under Logs and Stones; 
• Records submitted via iRecord and iNaturalist; An unknown Styloniscus;

BMIG Newsletter 46 (Spring 2023)

• BMIG field weekend and AGM; 
• Tanyptera Trust woodlice ID workshop; 
• ISTIB 2023; NHM collections move;  BMIG & BENHS; 
• Animals under Logs and Stones, 2nd edition; 
• American Isopod and Myriapod Group; 
• Key to the Woodlice of Northern France; An unexpecte

BMIG Newsletter 45 (Autumn 2022)

• BMIG spring field weekend and notices; 
• Hyloniscus riparius new to Britain; 
• BMIG Spring Field Meeting Reports; 
• The Darwin Tree of Life Project; 
• A millipede, or two, new to Britain – an update; 
• Predation of Landhoppers, Myriapods and Isopods by European Robins; 
• ‘Doubtful’ centipedes?; iNatural

BMIG Newsletter 42 (Spring 2021)

Contents: BMIG Annual Meeting; Centipedes on the sea shore; New Recording Scheme—‘Woodlouse Flies’ Rhinophoridae; Millipede-killing flies in Britain; A millipede, or two, new to Britain; Metatrichoniscoides celticus in England; Coastal Trichoniscoides sarsi; A possible 13th century woodlouse/millipede illustration; Expanding Anamastigona pulchella?; Ommatoiulus sabulosus; An introduction to Centipedes, Millipedes and Woodlice; BMIG training on the web.

BMIG Newsletter 41 (Autmn 2020)

Contents: New recording scheme - Intertidal marine isopods; Centipede atlas update; Darwin Tree of Life - What is it - Can you help?; Lockdown recording; Luminous centipedes; The not so southern Pill Woodlouse; Porcellionides sexfasciatus new to Britain; Trichoniscoides albidus in eastern Yorkshire; Online survey of common names for terrestrial isopods; First UK record of Clypeoniscus cantacuzenei.

BMIG Newsletter 40 (Spring 2020)

Contents: BMIG AGM and Field Meeting 2020; AGM & Officer Elections; Ophyiulus germanicus, with Laboulbeniales fungus; Melogona voigtii confirmed new to England; Luminous centipedes; First record of a ‘pocket centipede?; Bye Bye Ligia; Leptoiulus belgicus down sauf; Woodlice with Iridovirus wanted.