Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society

Upcoming AGM Autumn meeting 2025: Saturday 18th October 12:45 – 16:00 at World Museum, Liverpool. Free but booking essential: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/tanypteraproject/1822252

President: Peter Brash

Secretary: Gary Hedges gary.hedges@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Treasurer: Marion Barlow

Vice Presidents: Steve Judd, Ian Wallace, Mike Hull, Carl Clee, Steve McWilliam

Membership of the society is currently free. Join by filling out the membership form and emailing it to the honorary secretary gary.hedges@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Membership Form

Founded in 1877, the society currently holds two afternoon meetings per year at World Museum, Liverpool with two main talks and various shorter contributions from the membership. In 2019, the society also held two joint field meetings with the Tanyptera Project – Brookhouse Moss and Oakhanger Moss on 22nd May, and Hale Duck Decoy on 3rd July.

The society recently donated it’s British Lepidoptera specimen collection comprising 80 drawers across two cabinets National Museums Liverpool. They are housed in the Entomology Collections at World Museum. This is most useful as a synoptic collection of the British fauna, particularly for macro-Lepidoptera and local species. This collection is still fully accessible to members of other users alike.

In 2023, The society also donated it’s invertebrate library comprising a few hundred books and journals, to National Museums Liverpool and they are housed within the Entomology library at World Museum. The old library catalogue; LCES journals: ‘Supplement to the Annual Report & Proceedings Vol 127 2003’ may be downloaded from here but there are medium term plans to merge the former LCES library into the main NML Entomology library. The holdings of the main library can be searched or downloaded from the WM Entomology Library page.

WM Entomology Library

Between 1881 to 2010 the society produced a (mostly) annual journal series with other occasional publications covering all aspects of regional entomology, with numerous articles and checklists providing context for current Entomologists in the region. All the journals are available to download as searchable, bookmarked PDFs having been scanned in 2018 (funded by Tanyptera Trust). More information

AGM 19th October 2024

Draft minutes PDF

Key Points

Peter Brash became the new President of the society. Steve Judd stood down and continues on Council as a Vice President.
The Treasurer (Marion Barlow), Secretary (Gary Hedges), and the rest of the council remain the same.
Finances are in a healthy state with £5734.04 in the current account at the end of the 2023/24 financial year.
Membership continues to grow with 60 signed up at the time of the AGM.
It was agreed to spend £2000 on digitalising the LCES archives.

Autumn Meeting 2024

Our Autumn meeting took place on Saturday 19th October in the Entomology library at World Museum, Liverpool.