Events
Heswall Dales Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here. Heswall Dales is an area of some 72 acres of lowland heath situated close to Heswall on the Wirral. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve. On-street... Read more »
Freshfield Dune Heath Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here. Freshfield Dune Heath is a mixture of woodland, scrub and acidic grassland woven through a lowland dune heath: 9% of the national total of this incredibly rare habitat. It is the single largest... Read more »
Carr House Green Common Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here. Carr House Green Common, Inskip is primarily a lowland wet grassland meadow. It features marshy grassland with wet depressions and drainage ditches, creating a mosaic of wetland habitats that support characteristic flora and... Read more »
Grimsargh Wetlands Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here. Grimsargh Wetlands comprises three decommissioned former reservoirs and surrounding land managed by a dedicated Trust near Preston in Lancashire. There is variety of grassland habitats surrounding the former reservoirs, from species-rich free draining... Read more »
Crag Bank Invertebrate Recording Day Visit 2
Book here. Crag Bank Nature Reserve is 3.7 ha. SSSI comprising calcareous boulder-clay ridges and extensive wet areas of calcareous peaty soil with fen-like vegetation, ditches and a muddy stream. Over 170 species of flowering plant... Read more »
Spotlight Session – Grasshoppers and Crickets
Paradise Enterprise Centre 14 The Parade, Blacon, ChesterDid you know that we have 27 native species of Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)? Do you think that you could tell the difference between these two groups of interesting insect? If you were fascinated by... Read more »
Errwood & Fernilee Reservoirs Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here Join us for a joint recording day with Sorby Invertebrate Group and Cheshire Bee Group at Errwood and Fernilee Reservoirs in the Goyt Valley area. The site consists of mostly acid grassland/moorland with... Read more »
Chalcid wasps (Chalcidoidea) Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here. This one-day workshop with Steve Compton will cover the identification of chalcid wasps, one of the most species-rich groups of insects in the UK. An introductory lecture will outline the ecology and anatomy... Read more »
£10
An Introduction to Cuckoo Wasps Webinar
Book here. This webinar, led by Dr Liam Crowley, will introduce the UK Chrysididae and explore their identification, with a focus on the more commonly encountered and iconic species. Dr Liam Crowley is a postdoctoral researcher... Read more »
Picture-winged Flies Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here. This two-day workshop with David Clements will cover the identification and biology of flies in the families Tephritidae, Ulidiidae, Platystomatidae, Pallopteridae and Opomyzidae – the main families of the so-called ‘picture-winged flies’. The... Read more »
£20
Introduction to ‘Proctos’ Parasitoid Wasps Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here Introduction to ‘Proctos’: Parasitoid wasps of the superfamilies Diaprioidea, Platygastroidea, Proctotrupoidea and Ceraphronoidea Small parasitoid wasps are among the most diverse and numerous insects in terrestrial ecosystems where they exploit other insects and spiders as food for their young. This one-day workshop will be... Read more »
£10
