Pestival Blog

I was recently asked to blog on the Pestival website, an offer that I have accepted. But don't worry, Invertebrate Diaries will stay here, but in addition I will be blogging at ttp://pestival.org/blog/author/Ed%20Baker/.

Sao Paulo Collection Destroyed

Throughout the world many millions of natural history specimens are stored in flammable liquids. Just occasionally something incredibly tragic happens.

The Butantan Institute in Brazil is a leading research centre, which had over 85,000 specimens of snakes and nearly half a million spider and scorpions. Unfortunately it seems the building had no fire alarms or extinguishing systems.