Freshwater Leech Survey Day
Book here. This event will be held at Rixton Clay Pits Join like-minded people with an interest in recording wildlife observations for a day surveying freshwater leeches. Sampling leeches involves pond dipping and hand searches... Read more »
Borsdane Wood Invertebrate Recording Day
Book here. Borsdane Wood (LNR) lies to the north of Hindley, straddling the border of Wigan and Bolton. It is an area of semi natural ancient woodland and a site of biological interest. The linear... 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 »
Leafcutter Bees Webinar
Book here. Leafcutter bees are familiar garden insects that regularly use bee hotels. They are so-called due to the nesting behaviour of the females, who cut out leaf sections to create their linearly-arranged nest cells.... Read more »
Snail-killing flies (Sciomyzidae) Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here - tickets are £7.50 (The booking link will take you through the National Museums Liverpool website. Please note you do not need to 'become a member' in order to make a booking). Stuart... Read more »
£7.50
Fly Larvae 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 thanking but rather... Read more »
Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Autumn Meeting 2024
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook Here We will be welcoming Dr Julia Simons and Dr Thom Dallimore for 30 minutes talks on recent High Brown Fritillary and Mosquito research respectively. We will also have a session for short contributions... Read more »
Slugs Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here - tickets are £7.50 (The booking link will take you through the National Museums Liverpool website. Please note you do not need to 'become a member' in order to make a booking). A... Read more »
£7.50
Fly Families Workshop
World Museum William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, United KingdomBook here - tickets are £15 (The booking link will take you through the National Museums Liverpool website. Please note you do not need to 'become a member' in order to make a booking). This... Read more »
£15
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 »
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