Daytime meeting at The Sheepleas (permission granted) meet at 10.30am in the car park behind St Mary’s church on the A246 Epsom Rd, near West Horsley, map ref TQ088525; what3words brief.shared.indoor and then Great Ridings Wood (permission pending), West Horsley, Surrey, 2.00pm start in Orestan Lane, Effingham, KT24 5SJ at TQ107538, what3words sage.bared.stress. Good sites […]

Thurs. 23rd May 2024: Shouldham Warren, Norfolk (Forestry Commission likely to confirm with permission granted as per last season). See the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History for further details.

IMPORTANT! Special BENHS field meeting at Knepp Estate, West Sussex for weekend of 1st-2nd June, 2024 Leaders: Ray Barnett: ray.barnett@hotmail.co.uk, Keith Alexander keith.n.a.alexander@outlook.com & Ian Masters iandavidmasters@yahoo.com Additionally, Keith Alexander has stated that this will be in effect the BENHS Saproxylic Group meeting for this year.  Given the size and complexity of the estate and events over two days and […]

10:00am meet at the Keepers Gate entrance in Park Lane, TQ51551449 (Turn south off the A22 London to Eastbourne Road at TQ516147). Leader: Peter Hodge (Tel. 01273 812047) peter.hodge@mypostoffice.co.uk). Formerly known as Vert Wood, the former site for the Lewes Wave (Scopula immorata) now extinct in Britain. This is a daytime meeting but it is […]

Balfour-Browne Club field meeting 20th-24th June 2024 in Calabria national park (ITALY) open to BENHS members. Those coleopterists interested in attending please get in touch with Garth Foster lastissimus@btinternet.com You’ll need a permesso di recercatore to collect any beetles!  

Car park at ST479653 behind a locked gate. Day time meeting for general invertebrates from 1.30pm until 3.30/4.00pm and then light trapping in the evening from 8.30pm. The site has a rich remnant area of limestone heath surrounded by woodland with much of the latter recently added to the area managed by the Wildlife Trust.  […]

SU708658. An approximately 50 acre site consisting of unimproved grassland and deciduous woodland. It is believed that this site has never been worked before, so it's not known what one can expect. Joint meeting with Berkshire Moth Group. Meet 3.00pm for day work (e.g. clearwings (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) pheromoning), and at 7.00pm for an on-site barbeque […]

Joint Amateur Entomologist’s Society Bug Club meeting this on Saturday, preceded by Friday night session moth trapping, also with Berkshire Moth Group at SU784718. There will be the usual "meet a moth" event on Saturday morning. This event coincides with National Insect Week (24th – 30th June’24). Leader: Ian Sims (ian.sims57@hotmail.com).

Moth traps envisaged both nights. Habitat is varied and includes wet and dry meadow (well off the beaten track), and broad-leaved woodland. Leader: Glenda Orledge: bssgmo@bath.ac.uk

Forestry Commission likely to confirm with permission granted as per last season. See the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History for further details.