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 […]

New keys for the apoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) are being developed. (This group have been called the ‘Sphecids' in the past). An opportunitty to trial and comment on the test keys. This workshop will concentrate on those species with two sub-marginal cells.'   A draft generic key is available on the BWARS website. Image: Mike […]