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
Entomological Field Techniques Part 2
This webinar will take a deep dive into the Pantheon analysis software developed by Natural England and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to assist invertebrate nature conservation in England. We will look at how…
Find out more »Beacon Fell Country Park Invertebrate Recording Day
The park consists of 110 hectares of woodland, moorland and farmland. The Beacon Fell summit is 266 metres above sea level and offers spectacular views of the Forest of Bowland and Morecambe Bay. Please be…
Find out more »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 »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 »Chester Zoo BAP corridor & estate Invertebrate Recording Day
Join us for a general invertebrate recording day on Chester Zoo estate. In the morning we will visit a site on the Chester Zoo estate which is primarily unimproved grassland with rubble piles, south facing…
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…
Find out more »Field Identification of Spiders and Harvestmen
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…
Find out more »October 2021
Making & Keeping a Diptera Collection: In-person workshop
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…
Find out more »Money Spiders: In-person 1 day workshop
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…
Find out more »November 2021
Weevils (Apionidae): In-person workshop
A workshop introducing the Apionidae Weevils with Mark Gurney Covid Measures In order to keep our attendees and staff safe we encourage anyone attending our workshops to: - maintain social distancing - wear a face…
Find out more »Sawflies: In-person workshop
Workshop Content: There are around 250 species of sawflies in Britain, all of which have plant-feeding larvae. A few are garden pests but most feed as larvae on non cultivated plants. The workshop will have an…
Find out more »Hoverflies: In-person workshop
Course content: Hoverflies (Syrphidae) are probably the most recorded and popular family of Diptera (True Flies) with over 280 British species. Many of these attractive insects can be identified in the field although the majority need…
Find out more »Adult Caddisflies Webinar
This is our second webinar about Caddis and this one features the adult insect (check out Ian's Caddisfly Larvae Webinar here). Ian will be joined by Sharon Flint to discuss how to find and recognise adult…
Find out more »Ants: In-person workshop
Content: This workshop will be a basic introduction to the ecology, behaviour and identification of common British ant species. Our Tutor: Tony Parker is the Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum, Liverpool . His main…
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