User:Notafly

"“Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?”"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"“In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister” Natur und Kunst"

- Goethe

Interests
I have been contributing to Wikipedia since July 2005 and deal with topics on entomology, mainly on Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. I return to an early interest in Snow Butterflies Parnassius from time to time. Many years working with type material led to an interest in zoological entomological history. I hope you like Timeline of Entomology and its mirror the wonderful French sites Portail:Histoire de la zoologie et de la botanique. and Histoire de Histoire Naturelle

Education

 * Ilkeston Grammar School
 * Derby and District College of Technology

External degrees with: Upper second Honours Geology, Classical Zoology
 * University College

Societies
F.R.E.S., F.L.S
 * Royal Entomological Society
 * Linnean Society

Tools

 * GDZ Library of the University of Göttingen digitised early literature Zoologica
 * The Global Butterfly Information System
 * Strasbourg Library
 * Senckenberg
 * Dusseldorf Library
 * PaDil
 * MNHN collections database
 * World birds
 * Zoonomen

Admired
Philately
 * Ecology of Commanster
 * Koleopterologie
 * Galerie-insecte
 * Deutsche Fotothek
 * Paolo Monti
 * Wilson
 * Seitz
 * Galemys pyrenaicus
 * Eric Vingerhoedt
 * Stamp Wiki and Wikitimbres
 * Blick in die Ausstellung im Museum Wiesbaden
 * Wikispecies
 * Fulgoridae
 * Robert Flogaus Faust
 * Siga
 * Wikigallery
 * Specie botaniche in Italia
 * History of Composition
 * Veränderlicher Edelscharrkäfer
 * Dingo
 * 
 * Stamp world