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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June 2021
Holiday Moss Invertebrate Recording Day
Holiday Moss is managed by Lancashire Wildlife Trust. It is a small site with a mosaic of peatland, woodland, fen and open water habitats. *Please note that the peat/mossland on this site is currently overgrown…
Find out more »July 2021
Scutchers Acres Invertebrate Recording Day
Join us for a general invertebrate recording day at Scutchers Acres. This is a 13 hectare Local Nature Reserve sandwiched along the river Eller Brook between Burscough and Lathom parishes which features markedly different landscapes and…
Find out more »Jack Scout & Heald Brow Invertebrate Recording Day
Join us for a general invertebrate recording day at Jack Scout & Heald Brow This site is within the Arnside–Silverdale AONB. Jack Scout lies about one and a quarter kilometres south of Silverdale village on Carboniferous…
Find out more »Chester Zoo BAP corridor & estate Invertebrate Recording Day
The 'BAP corridor' is a mosaic of habitats in a narrow strip bordering the Shropshire Union Canal. It contains a mixture of meadows (which have been un-grazed and unmown in recent years), species-rich hedgerows, ephemeral…
Find out more »Ground Beetles Webinar
This webinar will provide a general introduction to Ground Beetles (Carabidae) and how to find, identify and record them. It will focus on species most commonly encountered by general naturalists in the field, including those…
Find out more »August 2021
Barnaby’s Sands and Burrows Marsh Invertebrate Recording Day
A general invertebrate recording day at Barnaby's Sands and Burrows Marsh SSSI. This Lancashire Wildlife Trust managed site comprises the last extensive area of ungrazed saltmarsh on the Lancashire coast. Please be aware that whilst we…
Find out more »New Ferry Butterfly Park Invertebrate Recording Day
Join us for a general invertebrate recording day at New Ferry Butterfly Park. 'New Ferry Butterfly Park is an urban nature reserve that was developed on the former site of a railway goods yard, coal yard…
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 important…
Find out more »Introduction to some Lesser-known Invertebrates Webinar
There are over 32,000 insect species known in Britain, many of which are familiar, easily recognised and well recorded. This is reflected by the Biological Records Centre supporting something in the region of 66 recording…
Find out more »September 2021
Craneflies Webinar
This session will provide an overview to British Craneflies (including the families; Cylindrotomidae (damsel craneflies), Pediicidae (hairy-eyed craneflies), Limoniidae (short-palped craneflies), Tipulidae (long-palped craneflies) – and their allies, the Trichoceridae (winter gnats) and Ptychopteridae (fold-winged…
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