Join Darren Mann and Ceri Watkins from the Dung beetle UK Mapping Project (DUMP), for a two-day introductory course on British dung beetle identification. Dung beetles are important recyclers across the globe as they provide... Read more »

Centipedes are some of the commonest larger invertebrates found in Britain and occur in many different habitats from domestic gardens and urban sites to truly wild countryside and the likelihood of seeing one when you... Read more »

World Museum's Tony Parker is our tutor of this 2-day workshop at Rixton Claypits Nature Reserve where we will cover the identification of dragonflies and damselflies as adults and larvae, as well as from the... Read more »

Our tutor for the day, Phil Smith, will introduce you to some of the shieldbugs, grasshoppers and crickets that can be identified on the Sefton Coast. The adults and most earlier instars of these small... Read more »

Unloved and under-recorded, the 45 species range from uncommon habitat specialists to widespread generalists. They can be found in almost any habitat and, unlike many insects, birds or mammals, do not run away rapidly from... Read more »

Join Edge Hill’s University’s Thom Dallimore at World Museum to learn about techniques required to identify male mosquitoes using their genitalia. We will be making slide preparations and using microscopes and dichotomous keys to identity... Read more »

Known as the long-legged flies, Dolichopodidae is a large family of mainly predatory species with over 7000 species described worldwide and represented by 304 species in the British fauna. 79 of these are ascribed a... Read more »

There are four major groups  (Dipsocoromorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs in the UK, together totalling c.90 species. They inhabit a variety of habitats from our solitary marine species that lives... Read more »

Lepidoptera are the best recorded order of insects in the UK with 10s of millions of records collated since 1800s. However, some of >2500 species are cryptic of terms of differences and can only be... Read more »

Identifying Aquatic Invertebrates to Family Level; Tricks, Tips and Sorting a Kick Sample Come and learn how to identify aquatic invertebrates to family level and how this can be used to assess the water quality... Read more »

This is a Blow fly identification workshop designed for beginners and professionals alike. It focuses on British species in the families Calliphoridae (blue bottles, green bottles and others), Polleniidae (cluster flies) and Rhiniidae (one species... Read more »

Join Katy Potts on Zoom for a Longhorn Beetle Identification Session. Our tutor: Katy Potts currently works at the Natural History Museum in London where she works on Beetles, having graduated with a first class degree... Read more »

Stella Shackel will be talking about the Urban GreenUP project in Liverpool and how the project aims to green up Liverpool to improve opportunities for pollinators. We will end with an interactive question and answer... Read more »

This course will introduce you to identifying some of the many UK spiders and harvestmen that are distinctive enough to be confidently recorded in the field with the aid of a simple piece of kit called a... Read more »

Led by Dipterist Nigel Jones, this is very much a workshop where participants can share their own “top tips” for useful techniques and saving money. The workshop will focus on pinned dry specimens. Making and... Read more »

Richard Gallon from the British Arachnological Society will lead this one-day workshop covering British Money Spiders (Linyphiidae). This workshop will cover microscopic identification techniques. You’ll be guided through the techniques required to identify Money Spiders... Read more »