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British Entomological and Natural History Society www.benhs.org.uk
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Are you joining us for this year's Exhibition on the 1st November? This important part of the BENHS calendar is an opportunity to meet other members and our affiliated societies whilst perusing significant insect voucher specimens, photographs and posters
www.benhs.org.uk/event/annual...
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Annual Exhibition 2025 - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/event/annual-exhibition-2025
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It was wonderful to see many familiar and new faces at our Annual Exhibition yesterday, a great turn out of fascinating specimens, photographs and posters as well as lots of publications to browse and purchase 🪲🔬🦋
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Les Evans-Hill
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Yesterday,
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published the 4th edition of the popular Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Completely updated and free to download in 3 digital formats: PDF, spreadsheet, and an Android App! Further details at
www.benhs.org.uk/publications...
#TeamMoth
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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SMALLER MOTHS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (4th Edition-Digital) - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/publications/smaller-moths-4th-edition/
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Are you joining us at our Exhibition this Saturday? A chance to meet other members and browse interesting displays! To find out more including contributing to the Exhibition visit our website
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Annual Exhibition 2025 - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/event/annual-exhibition-2025
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Royal Entomological Society
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Not a member? 30% discounts on handbooks are also available for non-RES members who are part of
@amentsoc.bsky.social
&
@britentsoc.bsky.social
. We are happy to arrange this for other entomological societies - If interested, please get in touch to discuss with our team via
[email protected]
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Insect science is global 🌍 We're a signatory with 33 organisations representing 25,000 insect scientists committing to deepen our collaborative efforts to seek solutions to the world’s challenges and support the global entomological community
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Insect Science is Global - Royal Entomological Society
30 July 2025 Science is global, and this is particularly true for insect science. As one of the globe’s most populous and successful life forms, the free movement of insects means they transcend the b...
https://www.royensoc.co.uk/news/insect-science-is-global/
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Are you joining us for this year's Exhibition on the 1st November? This important part of the BENHS calendar is an opportunity to meet other members and our affiliated societies whilst perusing significant insect voucher specimens, photographs and posters
www.benhs.org.uk/event/annual...
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Annual Exhibition 2025 - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/event/annual-exhibition-2025
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Weevil Identification workshop – Angela Marmont Centre November 8 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Tutor: Mark Gurney For beginners to those wanting to get familiar with trickier groups. Book a place; email, supplying a contact phone:
[email protected]
Image: Mark Gurney
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BENHS ID Workshop Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading December 6th 2025 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Wasps with a single forewing sub-marginal cell – Mike Edwards To book a place please mail, supplying a contact phone:
[email protected]
Image: Mike Edwards
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BENHS Dinton Pastures – October 4th 2025 An Introduction to the Identification of UK Spiders – Michael Davis and William Blumsom Gain the knowledge to identify common spider families and species. Book a place by mailing, with contact phone:
[email protected]
Image: Steven Falk
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BENHS Dinton Pastures-An introduction to myriapods and isopods - Duncan Sivell November 22 Workshop on centipedes, millipedes and woodlice that will give an overview of the British fauna. Book a place by mailing, supplying a contact phone:
[email protected]
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Are you a member and interested in accessing our library, collections and equipment? Our Members Open Days are a great way to visit our Headquarters at Dinton Pastures and the next is this Sunday!
www.benhs.org.uk/event/member...
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Enjoying the warm weather and interested in joining others in the field? We have some exciting field meetings across the summer to get involved in - see events marked in green on the website
www.benhs.org.uk/events/
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Events Archive - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/events/
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Andy Salisbury
5 months ago
Beetling into a week of leave with
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🐞🪲,
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🤘🤘, and
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New digital publication available for free on our website! A checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles (2nd Edition): covering all British macro-moths, micro-moths and butterflies, this is an indispensable reference for any serious lepidopterist.
www.benhs.org.uk/publications...
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A CHECKLIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLES (2nd Edition) - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/publications/brit-lep-checklist/
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Deadline on Saturday to apply for this funding round, if you're interested get in touch!
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Bookings are going well so don’t miss out on the BENHS Harvestman workshop with Meg Skinner and her new test British key to ID them . . . To book: mail
[email protected]
providing a mobile contact number.
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Are you looking for funding for entomological research? This year we have an additional opportunity to submit to our Professor Hering and Maitland Emmet Funds by 31st May 2025. See more on our website
www.benhs.org.uk/about/grants...
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GRANTS AND AWARDS - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/about/grants-and-awards/
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BENHS Dinton Pastures - Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading. To book a place mail;
[email protected]
, please supply a mobile phone contact number Image: Steven Falk
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BENHS Harvestman ID workshop - Meg Skinner June 7 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Dinton Pasture, Nr. Reading Meg runs the UK recording scheme for Harvestmen through the British Arachnological Society To book a place mail;
[email protected]
, supplying a mobile phone contact number
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Only three weeks to go until our Annual Members' Day at Oxford University Museum of Natural History! Access the full programme here:
www.benhs.org.uk/event/member...
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Annual Members' Day 2025 - British Entomological & Natural History Society
https://www.benhs.org.uk/event/members-day-2025/
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For those of you who missed our Annual Virtual Meeting on Saturday, you can watch the recordings now! The AGM is available through the website members' area and the guest speaker, Andrew Halstead, is available to all here
youtu.be/IBjdj0OXa5U
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A beginner's guide to sawflies (Andrew Halstead)
YouTube video by British Entomological and Natural History Society
https://youtu.be/IBjdj0OXa5U
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Joining details for our Annual Virtual Meeting this Saturday up now on the website!
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MEMBERS AREA - British Entomological & Natural History Society
To see the content in this section, you must have a current BENHS membership and register an account by clicking here If you already have an account, then please […]
https://www.benhs.org.uk/members-area/
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Make sure to join us this Saturday 15th of February 2-4pm at our Annual Meeting to discuss society matters and hear 'A beginner's guide to sawflies' by Andrew Halstead! We'll be meeting over Zoom, link to be posted on the website Members' Area and emailed to membership.
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BENHS Dinton Pastures - – Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading. To book a place mail;
[email protected]
, please supply a mobile phone contact number
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BENHS Dinton Pastures - Hoverfly identification - Martin Harvey September 6th, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading. To book a place mail;
[email protected]
, please supply a mobile phone contact number
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BENHS indoor workshop – Saturday 9th August 2025 An introduction to leafhoppers and allied groups – Alan Stewart (Sussex). Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading. To book a place mail;
[email protected]
, please supply a mobile phone contact number
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Sam England
10 months ago
In case you missed it, you can now watch my Brad Ashby memorial lecture for
@britentsoc.bsky.social
and LNHS on YouTube! ☺️
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Last night's Brad Ashby Memorial lecture is available on YouTube now! Learn how pollinators, parasites, and prey capitalise on static electricity with Dr Sam England
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3R5...
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Electric Ecology: How Invertebrates Capitalise on Static Electricity
YouTube video by London Natural History Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3R5T1jVcfU
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It's tonight! Link to tonight's Brad Ashby lecture is up on the members area of the website
benhs.org.uk/members-area/
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Join us for our Annual Virtual Meeting Saturday 15th of February 2-4pm to discuss society matters and hear 'A beginner's guide to sawflies' by Andrew Halstead (photo credit). We'll be meeting over Zoom, link to be posted on the website Members' Area and emailed to membership.
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BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshop Sawfly identification – Andrew Green and Andrew Halstead. April 12th, Dinton pasture CP To find out more –
www.benhs.org.uk/event/sawfly...
Image: Stephen Falk
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Sam England
11 months ago
I'm very excited to give this talk in January! It's free to attend via zoom if you're interested! :)
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Claudia Watts
10 months ago
GiGL, London's local environmental records centre, is now here on Blusky. Why not be one of their first followers?
@gigl-lerc.bsky.social
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Note: Date change. BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshops begin with Staphylinidae identification workshop – Roger Booth (NHM) March 1st, Dinton Pasture CP. To find out more -
www.benhs.org.uk/event/staphy...
Image: Jon Cole
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BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshops begin with Staphylinidae identification workshop – Roger Booth (NHM) February 22nd, Dinton Pasture CP. To find out more -
www.benhs.org.uk/event/staphy...
Image: Jon Cole
10 months ago
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The much anticipated 2nd Edition of Ants: Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman is out . . . . More delicious learning to undertake, lifelong learning at its most enjoyable!
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BENHS last 2024 workshop taking place right now - Weevil Identification with Mark Gurney at The Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 8 intrepid attendees lapping up Mark's clear and enthusiastic pointers for identifying these remarkable insects
www.benhs.org.uk/events/
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Electric Ecology: How Invertebrates Capitalise on Static Electricity Join us and Dr Sam England for our next Brad Ashby Memorial Lecture Thursday, January 23, 2025 · 7 - 8:30pm over Zoom Booking open now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/electric-e...
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Wildlife and Countryside Link
11 months ago
The Prime Minister was wrong to blame nature protection & regulators for stopping development🏡 Leading nature groups have written to Keir Starmer calling for an urgent meeting to discuss how nature & sustainable development can go hand-in-hand👇
wcl.org.uk/docs/2024/le...
📷Cassie Crocker
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Vanna Bartlett
11 months ago
It's Mistletoe season but spare a thought for the insects that rely on it and are found on nothing else. First up is the capsid bug Hypseloecus visci which I found in Norwich on our allotment site in July 2024 - photos show a nymph and an adult. Mistletoe itself photo taken today.
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Mindy Weisberger
12 months ago
Here's a stunner for
#FossilFriday
, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
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49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
https://www.livescience.com/attenborough-beauty-beetle-fossil.html
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Dr Marcus Rhodes
11 months ago
I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to champion Silver-studded Blues in this wonderful new film celebrating the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Cornwall's former mining sites provide an important refuge for several of our most threatened butterfly species.
youtu.be/V8OWVhl3Fv8?...
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Welcome to the amazing Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site
YouTube video by CornishMining
https://youtu.be/V8OWVhl3Fv8?si=yJeTAfdVTZanj55x
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Scott Reid
12 months ago
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023! An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife
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UK Butterflies
11 months ago
The Swallowtail is our largest native species, with a caterpillar that initially mimics a bird dropping, before developing warning colouring as it grows. It also has an organ known as an 'osmeterium'. According to Victorian entomologists, this gave off a pungent smell similar to rotting pineapple!
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British Nature Guide
11 months ago
This wonder of nature is a Celery Fly. Take time to check out a few insects next year. You will be pleasantly surprised. Look out for this species in the UK in June.
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Richard Fox
11 months ago
All welcome at Butterfly Conservation’s free online UK Moth Recorders' Meeting (Saturday 25 January 2025 on Zoom). Reserve your place now
bit.ly/3Z2MOzc
There’s a fab line-up of speakers:
bit.ly/3Z2MxfE
#TeamMoth
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It's a really useful website, which we'd recommend to everyone interested in Diptera
#flies
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11 months ago
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Martin Harvey
12 months ago
Part of a small display showing some uncommon flies recorded in 2024, prepared for the BENHS and
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annual meetings
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Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre
12 months ago
Our 2024 Berks Local Wildlife Sites surveys covered 34 sites, including the beautiful Dinton Pastures. We're diving into local wildlife records to support the park re-designation—especially for breeding wetland birds and inverts documented by BENHS since the ‘80s! 🦋
tverc.org/tverc-news/2...
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Prof Sam Illingworth
11 months ago
🐝 Limestone Quarries & Wild Bees A study from
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social
finds abandoned quarries can be vital habitats for 114 bee species, including 35 endangered ones, when managed well. Connectivity & floral diversity are key. 🔗
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SciComm
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Landscape diversity, habitat connectivity, age and size determine the conservation value of limestone quarries for diverse wild bee communities
Observed negative effects of high woody vegetation cover on bee communities highlight the importance of local management to reduce shrub encroachment and reset successional processes in limestone qua....
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14820
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