Book here – tickets are £7.50

Richard Gallon from the British Arachnological Society will lead this one-day workshop covering British Money Spiders (Linyphiidae).

Money Spiders have an unwarranted reputation for being difficult to identify. They represent 42% of the British spider species and form and important and interesting group to learn how to identify.

We have teamed up with the British Arachnological Society to provide this one-day course on Linyphiidae identification.

The day will focus on microscopic identification and you’ll have the opportunity to hone your skills on a wide range of test samples available on the day (graded at various levels of difficulty). You are of course more than welcome to bring your own specimens to work with and have your identifications verified on the day.

The aim of the course is to help increase identification skills and to enable confident recording of these spiders for the national recording scheme.

This course is suitable for those with some previous experience of examining invertebrate specimens down a microscope.

Adults only (18+)

Access: There are lifts between each of the floors and assistance dogs are permitted