Peel Park and The Coppice Invertebrate Recording Day
Peel Park and the CoppicePeel Park is the largest Local Nature Reserve in Lancashire and currently the subject of a Prospects Foundation project to protect and improve pollinator populations and their habitats. Over 20 broad habitat have been recorded, including heathland,... Read more »
Dragonflies and Damselflies Weekend Workshop
Rixton Claypits Nature Reserve Moat Lane, Rixton, Cheshire, United KingdomBook here This 2-day workshop at Rixton Claypits Nature Reserve Warrington will cover the identification of dragonflies and damselflies as adults and larvae. The workshop will be a mix of indoor and outdoor sessions and... Read more »
£15
Prenton Dell Claypit Invertebrate Recording Day
Prenton Dell Claypit on the Wirral consists of species-rich meadows, ponds, ditches, a small area of ancient woodland and marsh. The site is owned by National Grid who lease it to a local community group... Read more »
Bagmere and Brereton Heath Invertebrate Recording Day
Brereton Heath Local Nature Reserve is a 50 acre mosaic of mixed woodland, a lake, grassland, including some semi-improved, marsh and a few acres of heathland that are closed to the public. We will focus our... Read more »
Entomology techniques workshop – Beetles
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here During this workshop, we'll be focussing on the field and lab based techniques used for finding and identifying beetles. Local beetle expert Clive Washington, along with staff from RECORD and the Tanyptera Project... Read more »
Free
An introduction to Invertebrate Identification Workshop
Ness Botanic Gardens NessBook here Have you ever wanted to identify an invertebrate but weren't sure where to start? In this introductory workshop at the beautiful Ness Gardens, we'll be looking at the differences between some of the... Read more »
Free
Leeches in the Field
Book here - tickets are £7.50 This event will be held at Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve, Wirral. Join like-minded people with an interest in recording wildlife observations for a day surveying freshwater leeches. Sampling leeches involves... Read more »
Macclesfield Forest Invertebrate Recording Day
This is a joint recording day with the Sorby Invertebrate Group. United Utilities owned Macclesfield Forest covers an area of approximately 400 hectares (990 acres), dominated by woodland or plantation. Most of the woodland is... Read more »
Leech Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here - tickets are £7.50 There are 17 species of freshwater leeches in the UK. This one-day workshop will give an introduction to identifying and recording leeches and will focus on the common and... Read more »
£7.50
Freshwater Sponges Webinar
Book here. This webinar will outline what freshwater sponges are, their biology and life cycle, and the difficulties of identification. It will also discuss the distribution and biology of obligate feeders, particularly the spongeflies and... Read more »
Kindling Farm Invertebrate Recording Day
This will be a joint event with Merseyside Biobank. Kindling Farm is an organic, community-led 78-acre farm in Merseyside. Owned collectively by over 800 members through the Kindling Trust, the farm is developing an agroforestry... Read more »
Moth Dissection Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomAn introduction to the process of dissecting moths for the purpose of identification. The workshop will be practically based and will concentrate on the methods and processes needed to obtain accurate identifications. There will be... Read more »
Introduction to Water Mites Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here. Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) belong to one of the most species-rich group of aquatic invertebrates. They can be found in almost every water type, from streams, springs, lakes and pools to subterranean habitats.... Read more »
Tachinid Flies Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here Chris Raper and Matt Smith who organise the Tachinid Recording Scheme will be delivering this one-day workshop on Tachinid Flies. Working with the recording scheme's and museum's specimens, you will be using a... Read more »
What we know, and don’t know, about humane insect collection Webinar
Book here. This webinar has been jointly organised with the Insect Welfare Research Society For many reasons, we may want to lethally collect insects (and other arthropods). But increasing evidence suggests there's cause to consider... Read more »
Crag Bank Nature Reserve & Lords Lot Bog Invertebrate Recording Day
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 have been... Read more »
Assassin Bugs & Damsel Bugs Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here This Assassin bug and Damsel bug workshop led by Jim Flanagan will cover the identification, biology and current distribution of 23 species. These two important groups of predatory terrestrial bugs play an important... Read more »
Apoid Wasps (with one sub-marginal cell) Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here This one-day workshop with Mike Edwards will cover the identification of Apoid wasps with a single sub-marginal cell. Not necessarily a closely related group of species, but a useful way of splitting the... Read more »
£10.00
Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Spring Meeting 2026
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook Here This is a free bi-annual meeting open to all - you do not need to be a society member. Talks will include - 'The Highs and Lows of Looking for Rare Spiders in Lancashire', 'Kickstarting... Read more »
Spider Identification Training: From Field to Microscope
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here It’s often difficult to pack everything into a one-day identification workshop, so this series is designed to let you learn at a comfortable pace over four days: three practical workshops plus an optional... Read more »
£30
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