Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society

Spring meeting 2026: Saturday 14th March 13:00 – 16:00 at World Museum, Liverpool. Free but booking not yet available. If you’d like to contribute a short talk, please contact the secretary.

President: Peter Brash peter@peterbrashecology.co.uk

Secretary: Gary Hedges gary.hedges@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Treasurer: Marion Barlow

Vice Presidents: Steve Judd, Ian Wallace, Mike Hull, Carl Clee, Steve McWilliam

Membership of the society is currently free. Join by filling out the membership form and emailing it to the Secretary.

Membership Form

Founded in 1877, the society currently holds two afternoon meetings per year at World Museum, Liverpool with two or three main talks and various shorter contributions from the membership.

In 2023, the society donated it’s British Lepidoptera specimen collection comprising 80 drawers across two cabinets to National Museums Liverpool. They are housed in the Entomology Collections at World Museum. This is most useful as a synoptic collection of the British fauna, particularly for macro-Lepidoptera and local species. This collection is still fully accessible to members and other users alike.

The society also donated it’s invertebrate library comprising a few hundred books and journals, to National Museums Liverpool and they are housed within the Entomology library at World Museum. The old library catalogue; LCES journals: ‘Supplement to the Annual Report & Proceedings Vol 127 2003’ may be downloaded from here but there are medium term plans to merge the former LCES library into the main NML Entomology library. The holdings of the main library can be searched or downloaded from the WM Entomology Library page.

WM Entomology Library

Between 1881 to 2010 the society produced a (mostly) annual journal series with other occasional publications covering all aspects of regional entomology, with numerous articles and checklists providing context for current Entomologists in the region. All the journals are available to download as searchable, bookmarked PDFs having been scanned in 2018 (funded by Tanyptera Trust). More information

AGM 18th October 2025

Draft Minutes (PDF)

Key Points

Peter Brash was re-elected as President of the society.
The Treasurer (Marion Barlow), Secretary (Gary Hedges), and the rest of the council were also all re-elected, with the exception of Harry Davies, who resigned from Council.
Finances are in a healthy state with £5912.53 in the current account at the end of the 2024/25 financial year.
Membership continues to grow with 88 signed up at the time of the AGM, an increase of 28 members in the past 12 months.
There were no motions put forward by the members.

Autumn Meeting 2025

Our Autumn meeting took place on Saturday 18th October in the Entomology library at World Museum, Liverpool, and attended by a mixture of 40 LCES members and non-members.