Open Thursday - Sunday & Tuesday-Sunday for the Summer Holidays

Wednesday 22nd July - The Bug Farm and Grub Kitchen are OPEN but with a high number of bookings. Minimal walk-in spaces available

Thursday 23rd July - The Bug Farm and Grub Kitchen OPEN 10:30am - 3pm (Closing early for a private function)

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Publications

Publications include:

Noriega, J. A. …, Beynon, S. A., … Lewis, K., … et al. (2023) Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensificationNature Communications, 14, 8070.

Jones, V. & Beynon, S.A. (2020) Edible insect: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits. Children’s Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2020.1718608.

Manning, P., Lewis, O.T.,  Beynon, S.A. (2018) Effects of the veterinary anthelmintic moxidectin on dung beetle survival and dung removal. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 10, 810-817.

Manning, P., Beynon, S.A., Lewis O.T. (2017) Quantifying immediate and delayed effects of anthelmintic exposure on ecosystem functioning supported by a common dung beetle species. PLoS ONE. e0182730.

Manning, P., Slade, E.S., Beynon, S.A., Lewis, O.T. (2017) Effect of dung beetle species richness and chemical perturbation on multiple ecosystem functions. Ecological Entomology. 42, 577-586.

Beynon, S. A., Wainwright, W. A., & Christie, M. (2015). The application of an ecosystem services framework to estimate the economic value of dung beetles to the UK cattle industry. Ecological Entomology40(S1), 124-135.

Manning, P., Slade, E.M., Beynon, S.A. & Lewis, O.T. (2015) Functionally rich dung beetle assemblages are required to provide multiple ecosystem services. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 218, 87-94.

Beynon, S.A., Slade, E.M., Mann, D.J. & Lewis, O.T. (2012) Species-rich dung beetle communities buffer ecosystem services in perturbed agro-ecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 1365-1372.

Beynon, S.A., Peck, M., Mann, D.J. & Lewis, O.T. (2012) Consequences of alternative and conventional endoparasite control in cattle for dung-associated invertebrates and ecosystem functioning. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 162, 36-44.

Beynon, S.A. (2012) Potential environmental consequences of administration of anthelmintics to sheep, Veterinary Parasitology,189, 125-135.

Beynon, S.A. (2012) Potential environmental consequences of administration of ectoparasiticides to sheep, Veterinary Parasitology, 189, 113-124.

Wall, R. & Beynon, S. (2012) Area-wide impact of macrocyclic lactone parasiticides in cattle dung. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 26, 1-8.