This Assassin bug and Damsel bug workshop led by Jim Flanagan will cover the identification, biology and current distribution of 23 species. These two important groups of predatory terrestrial bugs play an important role in the ecological function of many habitats. Specimens will be available to study from the museum’s collection as well as the tutor’s own using microscopes along with draft keys. The aim is to help raise knowledge and awareness of these two groups of predatory bug and to help recorders submit good reliable records of their sightings of these to iRecord.

Our tutor: Jim has been the recorder for true bugs (covering the shieldbugs, plantbugs, groundbugs and other groups along with plant and leafhoppers) for the Sorby Natural History Society (based in Sheffield) for around twenty years. He is also organiser for the national recording scheme for Plantbugs and allied families.