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INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS

Animals without backbones are chosen invertebrates. They range from well known animals such as jellyfish, corals, slugs, snails, mussels, octopuses, crabs, shrimps, spiders, butterflies and beetles to much less well known animals such as flatworms, tapeworms, siphunculids, sea-mats and ticks.

				INVERTEBRATE EXHIBITS
				Displays of the invertebrate phyla and the members of the University who studied them, were created by a Manpower Services Squad from 1987-1989.

THE INSECT DISPLAY
The latest display illustrates the phylogeny of insects. It was created in 1999 by a Zoology Honours student using specimens from ii insect collections formerly used to teach Agriculture and Forestry.

THE Beetle Drove
				The beetle drove was used to teach forestry students nigh wood boring and pestiferous beetles. The specimens include meaning pests from many regions of the world. Some beetles are very large and some are very small; many are very beautiful. The drove was catalogued past a Zoology Honours pupil in 2002. The web pages illustrate the specimens and the damage they cause.
A GUIDE TO THE Collywobbles OF THE Uk AND THE Democracy OF Ireland
Butterflies belonging to the Collections were photographed to brand 'A Guide to the Identification of the butterflies of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Republic of ireland' by a Zoology Honours student in 2000.

THE PARASITOLOGY COLLECTION

During the concluding hundred years, significant numbers of parasites and their vectors were amassed for education biology, veterinary and medical students. The microscopic organisms - protozoa, tapeworms, flatworms, roundworms, mites, fleas, lice - are preserved on slides; the larger organisms - ticks and flies - in spirit. The tick cataloguing project carried out in 2001 showed that the ticks come from all over the world and from all kinds of domestic and wildlife.