image supplied: Marc Taylor Tutors – Chris Raper and Matt Smith, who organise the Tachinid Recording Scheme: https://tachinidae.org.uk/blog/ You will be using their well developed key from The Dipterist Forum Annual Fly School held a Preston Montford FSC February 2024, the key containing 41 new species since Belshaw’s 1993 Key. If you possess your own […]

Meg Skinner works as an invertebrate ecologist and runs the UK recording scheme for Harvestmen through the British Arachnological Society. Meg has experience surveying a range of arachnids and other invertebrates. The feedback of the 2024 and 2025 workshops indicates they very well received, so spaces will be at a premium, book early. Meg's tutorial […]

Identifying flies - an introduction using specimens and photos Flies can be found everywhere, in great diversity and sometimes in enormous numbers. There are over 7,000 species in the UK, including many that play important roles as pollinators, predators and 'recyclers' helping to break down dung and carrion. This year saw the publication of A […]

Tutors – Andrew Green and Andrew Halstead. After their introductory talks, instruction and assistance will be given to help beginners and more experienced people identify sawflies to genera and species level. Either bring your own specimens or use those provided. Andrew Halstead is the retired RHS Principal Entomologist, he writes books and magazine articles, his […]

Dr Duncan Sivell, Senior Curator in Charge, (Diptera and Siphonaptera) Natural History Museum This workshop on centipedes, millipedes and woodlice will give an overview of the British fauna, focus on characters required for identification, discuss aspects of ecology and fieldwork and advise on resources for further study. A mix of live and preserved specimens will be used to introduce […]