A reintroduction to Ophion - Indoor Workshop - Gavin Broad Gavin Broad is a principal curator at the Natural Historry Museum and works on ichneumonoid wasps. He likes parasitoid wasps and hopes you will too. Ophion is a genus of nocturnal ichneumonid wasps which are parasitoids of caterpillars. Most species are very similar and identification […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ichneumonidae: sawfly parasitoids (subfamily Ctenopelmatinae) Indoor Workshop - Gavin Broad Gavin Broad is a principal curator at the Natural Historry Museum and works on ichneumonoid wasps. He likes parasitoid wasps and hopes you will too. The ichneumonid subfamily Ctenopelmatinae are almost all parasitoids of sawfly larvae. This is a morphologically diverse group and there are […]

Weevil Identification - Mark Gurney - Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD. After a brief introduction to weevils and the main groups, most of the workshop will be spent identifying specimens, with help using keys and guides. Please bring specimens to identify if you have them. […]