Lancashire Wildlife Recorders’ Conference – 2024
Blackburn CollegeA conference for everyone interested in studying, recording, monitoring and conserving wildlife across Lancashire. Organised by Lancashire Wildlife Recorders' Forum and sponsored by Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Society. Draft programme
£5
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 »
Amara Beetles Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here This workshop will focus on the ground beetle genus Amara. This is a challenging group of 27 species in Britain, many of which are very similar in their external morphology and often confused... Read more »
Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Spring Meeting 2025
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 We will be hearing about: Cryptic Creatures of the Creuddyn project from Sion Dafis (Great Orme... Read more »
Ichneumonidae: Sawfly Parasitoids Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here This workshop will focus on the ichneumonid subfamily Ctenopelmatinae, which are almost all parasitoids of sawfly larvae. This is a morphologically diverse group and there are more than 50 genera in Europe and... Read more »
Leafhoppers & Allies Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here This one-day workshop will be an introduction to those members of the plant-feeding Hemiptera (bugs) that are leafhoppers, planthoppers, froghoppers and treehoppers (collectively known as Auchenorrhyncha). There are over 400 species in this... Read more »
Assassin Bugs & Damsel Bugs Webinar
Book here. The Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) and the Damsel Bugs (Nabidae) are two important groups of predatory terrestrial bugs but are relatively small in terms of species numbers in Britain and Ireland. The Assassin Bugs... Read more »
Mosquitoes Webinar
Book here. Mosquitoes are one of the most infamous of all insects, almost entirely because of a single feature of their behaviour, the taste for blood! They are synonymous with nuisance biting and the spread... Read more »
Beacon Country Park Invertebrate Recording Day
*please note that the date has now changed form 2nd to 9th May* Beacon Country Park is a 300 acre site across the slopes of Ashurst Beacon between Upholland, Dalton and Skelmersdale. The site consists of wildflower meadows, ponds,... Read more »
Cross Hill Quarry Invertebrate Recording Day
A Lancashire Wildlife Trust site. A mosaic of woodland and small meadows with limestone plants like fairy flax, mouse-ear hawkweed and lady’s bedstraw grow alongside fragrant wild herbs like thyme and marjoram. The river Ribble runs... Read more »
Introduction to Bees Workshop
Ness Botanic Gardens NessBook here This one-day workshop at Ness Gardens will give an introduction to identifying and recording bees and will focus on the common and distinctive species found in the North-West. The day will start with... Read more »
Fly Pupa Webinar
Book here. Diptera comprise some of the most ecologically important animal species playing key roles in pollination, nutrient recycling and decomposition. But it is not just the adult flies we should be thinking about but... Read more »
Hightown Dunes & Meadows Invertebrate Recording Day
The Hightown Dunes and Meadows nature reserve stretches from Hall Road Coastguard Station to the mouth of the River Alt. The site consists of sand dunes, a small saltmarsh, freshwater ponds, willow and poplar scrub and... Read more »
Heswall Fields and Shore Invertebrate Recording Day
Heswall fields contains wildflower meadows fronting the Dee estuary/Heswall shore. The sandy banks leading up to the fields contain perfect nesting opportunities for a variety of wasp and bee species. In past years the Nationally... Read more »
Trowbarrow and Hawes Water Invertebrate Recording Day
Trowbarrow Local Nature Reserve is managed by Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This former quarry holds a supports a mosaic of grassland habitats with limestone plants, bare ground, shallow ponds and a broad-leaved hazel... Read more »
Starr Hills Invertebrate Recording Day
Starr Hills, Lytham St Annes is owned by Flyde Council and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It covers 23.6 ha of sand dune. The northern section of the coastal dunes at Starr... Read more »
Soldierflies & Allies Spotlight Session
Paradise Enterprise Centre 14 The Parade, Blacon, ChesterFor our next Spotlight Session with RECORD LRC we're focussing on Soldierflies and allies. When? 20 June, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Where? Community Hall, Parade Enterprise Centre, 14 The Parade, Blacon, Chester, CH1 5HN The 'Soldierflies and Allies'... Read more »
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 »
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