Booking via World Museum events page – tickets are £15.

Dragonfly & Damselfly Identification in the Field

This 2-day workshop at Rixton Clay Pits Nature Reserve will cover the identification of dragonflies and damselflies as adults and larvae, as well as from the skins (exuviae) left behind after the emergence of the adult. The workshop will involve some light walking as we look at different ponds on the site.

Our tutor: Tony Parker is the former Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum, Liverpool. His main interest is British wildlife, with a particular emphasis on recording the natural history of the North West region. Tony is involved in several projects regarding recording and monitoring the distribution of birds, mammals and hymenoptera in the region and is the Aculeate Hymenoptera recorder for Cheshire.

The workshop will involve some light walking as we look at different ponds on the site.

Access: the are good (grassy) footpaths paths suitable for wheelchairs around much of the reserve

Adults only (18+)