LCES Spring Meeting 🦋 Talks include - The Highs and Lows of Looking for Rare Spiders in Lancashire, Kickstarting Nature Conservation with Wetlands, Jamaican Pleistocene Millipedes, Macrophotography on a budget & Introducing the Bolton Museum Insect Collections www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Oh hell YES! Proctotrupoidea course coming up from @tanyptera.bsky.social later this year! Tanyptera is really knocking it out of the park with wasps. With Ichneumon, Braconid & Chalcid courses in the last few years, here’s hoping for Cynipids to get a look in too! #hymenoptera #wasps

🕷️ Another new report today 👉 Baseline survey for the money spiders Erigone welchi & Semljicola caliginosus in Lancashire by Richard Gallon www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/bas... You can also watch Richard surveying for these spiders in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBeP...

🐝 New Report 🐝- The status and distribution of the Solitary bee’s Andrena tarsata and Nomada robertjeotiana in Lancashire in 2025 by Ben Hargreaves Now available to download from our website 👇 www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/the...

!Please Read! Coleopterists Day is happening on Saturday 21st February, not the 22nd as previously circulated. Accept our apologies for this confusion, we hope to see you there for discussions, presentations and more...🪲🪲🪲

New Report 📣- Status of the Nationally Rare shorebug Chiloxanthus pilosus in northwest England with a preliminary survey of its distribution on the Ribble Estuary by Stephen Hewitt - now available to download on our website 👇 www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/sta...

Join us for our first identification workshop of 2026 - Apoid Wasps with Mike Edwards on Weds 18th February - more info and booking here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/apoid-...

How to Survey for the rare Caddisfly Anabolia brevipennis – Watch Our New Video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXIM... Read more 👉 www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/how-to-surve...

Anaesthetising insects with carbon dioxide in the field and methods for delivering the gas Download and read Ian Wallace's full report here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/ana...

🐚 Celebrating Nora McMillan: An Inspirational Conchologist Featured on BBC’s Antiques Road Trip ✨ Our own Leanna Dixon joined presenters Phil Serrell & Tahmina Ghaffar at Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve & World Museum to share Nora's story 📺 Watch here (starts at 9:50) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Steven Hammer, one of our regular collection users, co-developed a new #insect pinning block, with staff and volunteers from the museum. It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/... #ECN2025

Thinking of a career switch? Find your perfect job in #entomology 🪲 Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽 buff.ly/lESo5k5 📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs

Asian Hornet spotted on the Sefton Coast for the first time www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/asian-hornet...

Buzzing Biodiversity: Bee and Wasp Discoveries at the World Museum Meadow 🐝🌺 www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/buzzing-biod...

Why do bees buzz - and how can their vibrations inspire micro-robots? 🐝 Join Dr @charliezoology.bsky.social on 13 January 2026 for a FREE webinar exploring bee buzz biology, field research and robotic applications. 🌎 🧪 More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1850820516...

Improve your bumblebee ID and recording skills. This online course includes 3 recorded webinars covering the UK’s 24 bumblebee species, from common to rare and cuckoo species, + ecology and survey guidance. Start here: courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/bumb... @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

🚨 Only 30 places left for #NBNconf25 ! With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿 🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25 #Biodiversity #Data #Networking

Dr Phil Smith's October Wildlife Notes are now available on our website. They are always a highlight of the month for me and remind me that I need to get out recording more! Have a read and please share to any other likeminded and interested individuals. merseysidebiobank.org.uk/blog/2025/11...

Here's that talk from last night, about humane insect collection. It's worth a watch I think - especially the bit about freezing specimens. Thanks to the @tanyptera.bsky.social for organising this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=12at...

Don't forget to book your place to join us for the 'What we know, and don't know, about humane insect collection' webinar on Monday!

*NEW EVENT ADDED* 🐞 What we know, and don't know, about humane insect collection - Webinar 🐝 Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Join LCES for their upcoming Autumn Meeting - All Welcome Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Join us for an Introduction to Water Mites workshop next month! The workshop will include an introduction to their complex life cycle, identification and collection techniques. Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/waterm...

Join us next Monday for a webinar on the fascinating world of Britain's Freshwater Sponges 🧽 Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

🧬 Free DNA Barcoding Offer for North West Invertebrate Recorders 🧬 A maximum of 3 invertebrate specimens per person can be identified free of charge via DNA barcoding, deadline for receipt of specimens 15th August. More info here: mailchi.mp/400f113cf86e...

A teneral male Red-rumped Ladybird, Scymnus haemorrhoidalis, seen at Brereton Heath LNR in Cheshire recently. The usually black areas are a muddy brown in this recently eclosed individual. @tanyptera.bsky.social

🦟Update to the Lancashire & Cheshire Diptera (True Flies) Checklist 🦟 121 additions since the last update (22 for VC58, 23 for VC59 and 76 for VC60). 32 species new to the region! www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/lan... Image by Janet Graham - CC BY 2.0

A pair of Spiked Shieldbugs (Picromerus bidens) I disturbed at Bagmere NR (a private site) in Cheshire last Friday. One of the predatory shieldbug species, the female has impaled a sawfly. @tanyptera.bsky.social

🗓 Upcoming Events 🔎 7th Aug - Leeches in the Field 🔬 8th Aug - Leech ID at World Museum 🌳 8th Aug - Macclesfield Forest Recording Day 🧽 18th Aug - Freshwater Sponges Webinar 🐝 30th Aug - Kindling Farm Recording Day More info/booking: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/events/

Red-patched Ladybird, Nephus redtenbacheri, a sub-2mm Micro Ladybird. One of three vacuumed sampled from damp grasssland at Prenton Dell Claypit NR, Wirral. @tanyptera.bsky.social

The unusual macropterous form (f. burri) of the usually flightless Short-winged Conehead. Males are v. difficult to tell from Long-winged C-H but females like this are easier as they have shorter, curving ovipositors. A 1st for me, seen yesterday at Prenton Dell Claypit. @tanyptera.bsky.social

Join us for an Invertebrate Recording Day at Bagmere and Brereton Heath, Cheshire next week 🐝🐞🦋 Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Learn how to survey for and identify Leeches in our upcoming workshops Leeches in the Field 7th Aug - Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve, Wirral www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeche... Leech Identification Workshop 8th Aug - World Museum, www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeches/

Our next workshop will be the Dragonflies & Damselflies Weekend with Tony Parker at Rixton Clay Pits, Warrington on 5th & 6th July. Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/dragon...

On Friday we'll be at Starr Hills Dunes, Lytham St Annes for our next Invertebrate Recording Day, book your free place to join us: app.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Join us at Kindling Farm, Merseyside for an Invertebrate Recording Day this Sunday. Kindling Farm is an organic, community-led 78-acre farm. The land includes species-rich native hedgerows, wildlife-friendly margins & several ponds Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Next Friday ourselves and @tanyptera.bsky.social are hosting a spotlight session covering Soldierflies and Allies. Join us as we practice ID in a friendly setting. FREE event, find out more and book 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1734115

Join us at Trowbarrow Local Nature Reserve & Hawes Water for our next Invertebrate Recording Day 🐜🐝🦋 Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

🙋‍♀️ Help us search for an elusive species of hoverfly. 🧐 Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'Nationally Scarce' species. We want to see if this unusual species is living in the Nature Reserve at Chester Zoo and for this we need your help! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor... @tanyptera.bsky.social

🐛Some of you aren't receiving our newsletter/emails, this is due to an IT issue that we hope will be resolved soon. If you haven't received it you can read the May update here 🐞: mailchi.mp/39917e5318a0...

Just been watching @tanyptera.bsky.social's latest video of Erica McAlister talking about fly pupae - mind-blowing diversity! Reminded me that I found a hoverfly pupa recently that looks like Episyrphus balteatus but I've no idea about the second one. @geoffwilkinson.bsky.social do you know please?

Join us on 21 May, 2:30pm for a Spotlight Session on Ladybirds 🐞 We'll be having a go at some ladybird identification along with @tanyptera.bsky.social. No experience is neccessary and there will be free tea and biscuits ☕🍪 Register here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

Our next webinar is Fly Pupae with the fantastic Erica McAlister 🦟 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Join us at Cross Hill Quarry, Clitheroe on the 16th May. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

Join us for our upcoming Invertebrate Recording Day at Beacon Country Park on 9th May 🐛🦋🐝 The site consists of wildflower meadows, ponds, ditches, an orchard and areas of semi-natural woodland. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

One of the nice points that I often raise is that mosquitoes are not always problematic - although research is limited, many species now are highlighted as #pollinators @tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore #mosquitoes

Malaria or Ague as it was known was once common(ish) in the British Isles. Although we still have the vectors we don’t have the plasmodium. Draining wetlands, Little Ice Age, improved housing, reduced exposure - all may have helped then… @tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore

In the @tanyptera.bsky.social Mosquito webinar tonight by Thom Dallimore, we were introduced to the common names of our UK species….. #Mosquitoes #commonnames

Just listened to a brilliant talk by Dr Thom Dallimore on Mosquitoes - one of the fab webinars organised the @tanyptera.bsky.social www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/mosqui... Straight away Thom thanks @anderslindstrom.bsky.social for his amazing photography & ace knowledge