We hold free and heavily subsidised invertebrate workshops and webinars on identification, recording, curation and field craft to help boost the skills of beginners and experienced entomologists alike. These are complemented with drop-in sessions to facilitate mentoring and networking. We also run an invertebrate recording day programme to bring together the invertebrate recording community and facilitate improvements to baseline data coverage at selected important / under-recorded sites.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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July 2022
Cleaver Heath Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day at Cleaver Heath Nature Reserve Cleaver Heath is manged by Cheshire Wildlife Trust and is a small, 7 acre island of lowland heath fringed with birch and oak woodland on…
Find out more »Bumblebees in the field: In-person Workshop
This workshop will cover the identification and ecology of bumblebees, focusing on those found in the North West. The day will start with an indoor session followed by finding and identifying bumblebees around Ness Botanic…
Find out more »Far Greenbank Farm Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day at Far Greenbank Farm This recording day will take place at the privately owned Far Greenbank Farm, a remote upland shooting estate at c.250m asl. The main habitat interest on…
Find out more »Peak District Site TBC – Invertebrate Recording Day
For this recording day we will join Sorby Invertebrate Group - site TBC Please be aware that whilst we welcome invertebrate recorders of all experience levels, our recording days are not taught or guided sessions.…
Find out more »August 2022
Chester Zoo Estate Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day on Chester Zoo Estate We will visit a site on the Chester Zoo estate which is a mosaic of habitats in a narrow strip bordering the Shropshire Union Canal. It is…
Find out more »Dragonfly ID Weekend
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…
Find out more »Yarrow Valley Country Park Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day at Yarrow Valley Country Park Yarrow Valley Country Park was first established in 1987 on land previously used for bleaching, dyeing, calico printing and mining. The park is now an…
Find out more »Search for the Sea Aster Mining Bee / Invertebrate Recording Day
This is a joint recording day with the Cheshire Bee Group who will be looking for the Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes halophilus) on and around the coastal path in Heswall (near the Sheldrakes restaurant).…
Find out more »September 2022
Smithills Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day at Smithills Estate A Woodland Trust site with 1,700 acres of open countryside, featuring mixed woodland with streams, rough grassland and heather moorland. The day will be focused in the…
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