Events

A Basic Introduction to Spider Families

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Image: Steven Falk Led by Bill Blumsom, Wiltshire County Recorder for Spiders and Regional Organiser, Wiltshire for the British Arachnological Society. This field-based workshop is aimed at beginners and those with a general interest in spiders. It will include a brief introduction to spiders and their basic structure, life cycles and behaviours. We will collect […]

Members Open Day

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

The Pelham Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures, Reading. The Society’s Headquarters Building is the venue for regular Open Days for members.

Cave Spiders: Behavioural Adaptations in Webs, Foraging and Dispersal

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Free webinar with Dr Thomas Hesselberg exploring behavioural adaptations in cave spiders. Web-building spiders are excellent model organisms to study the behavioural adaptations to novel habitats such as the dark and food-limited subterranean cave habitat. Cave-dwelling orb spiders in the genus Meta show several potential behavioural adaptations in both their webs (which do not have […]

Members Open Day

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

The Pelham Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures, Reading. The Society’s Headquarters Building is the venue for regular Open Days for members.

Annual Exhibition 2024

Conway Hall, Holborn, London 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London, United Kingdom

Details to follow...

Members Open Day

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

The Pelham Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures, Reading. The Society’s Headquarters Building is the venue for regular Open Days for members.

Tachinid Fly workshop

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  Tutors – Chris Raper and Matt Smith, who organise the Tachinid Recording Scheme, link below: 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 specimens […]

An introduction to woodlice, centipedes and millipedes.

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Image: Keith Lugg An introduction to woodlice, centipedes and millipedes - Dr Duncan Sivell, NHM. This is an introduction to recognising and identifying these three groups of invertebrates, which are often found together and can be recorded during the winter. This workshop will focus on the important morphological characters of these three taxa, discuss their […]

Members Open Day

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

The Pelham Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures, Reading. The Society’s Headquarters Building is the venue for regular Open Days for members.

Apoid wasps with a single sub-marginal cell.

BENHS Headquarters The Pelham-Clinton Building, Dinton Pastures Country Park, Davis Street, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  Led by Mike Edwards - seasoned hymenopterist. Apoid wasps with a single sub-marginal cell. Not necessarily a closely related group of species, but a useful way of splitting the group. Test ride keys for Ray Soc volume, includes Crabro, Crossocerus, Oxybelus, Entomognathus, Rhopalum, Ectemnius, Lindenius and, possibly, Trypoxylon. Another workshop by Mike who will […]

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