YouTube video by The Tanyptera Project
What we know, and don't know, about humane insect collection
Here's that talk from last night, about humane insect collection. It's worth a watch I think - especially the bit about freezing specimens. Thanks to the @tanyptera.bsky.social for organising this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12at...
23.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
Don't forget to book your place to join us for the 'What we know, and don't know, about humane insect collection' webinar on Monday!
18.09.2025 09:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
*NEW EVENT ADDED*
🐞 What we know, and don't know, about humane insect collection - Webinar 🐝
Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
08.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Join LCES for their upcoming Autumn Meeting - All Welcome
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22.08.2025 11:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for an Introduction to Water Mites workshop next month!
The workshop will include an introduction to their complex life cycle, identification and collection techniques.
Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/waterm...
18.08.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Join us next Monday for a webinar on the fascinating world of Britain's Freshwater Sponges 🧽
Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
11.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧬 Free DNA Barcoding Offer for North West Invertebrate Recorders 🧬
A maximum of 3 invertebrate specimens per person can be identified free of charge via DNA barcoding, deadline for receipt of specimens 15th August.
More info here: mailchi.mp/400f113cf86e...
09.08.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A teneral male Red-rumped Ladybird, Scymnus haemorrhoidalis, seen at Brereton Heath LNR in Cheshire recently. The usually black areas are a muddy brown in this recently eclosed individual. @tanyptera.bsky.social
03.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🦟Update to the Lancashire & Cheshire Diptera (True Flies) Checklist 🦟
121 additions since the last update (22 for VC58, 23 for VC59 and 76 for VC60). 32 species new to the region!
www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/lan...
Image by Janet Graham - CC BY 2.0
29.07.2025 09:58 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A pair of Spiked Shieldbugs (Picromerus bidens) I disturbed at Bagmere NR (a private site) in Cheshire last Friday. One of the predatory shieldbug species, the female has impaled a sawfly. @tanyptera.bsky.social
28.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🗓 Upcoming Events
🔎 7th Aug - Leeches in the Field
🔬 8th Aug - Leech ID at World Museum
🌳 8th Aug - Macclesfield Forest Recording Day
🧽 18th Aug - Freshwater Sponges Webinar
🐝 30th Aug - Kindling Farm Recording Day
More info/booking: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/events/
28.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Red-patched Ladybird, Nephus redtenbacheri, a sub-2mm Micro Ladybird. One of three vacuumed sampled from damp grasssland at Prenton Dell Claypit NR, Wirral. @tanyptera.bsky.social
21.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Short-winged Conehead, Conocephalus dorsalis f. burri (the flying form of a typically flightless species). A slender, green cricket, with unusually long, brown wings. This is a female, with a pointed, curving ovipositor.
The unusual macropterous form (f. burri) of the usually flightless Short-winged Conehead. Males are v. difficult to tell from Long-winged C-H but females like this are easier as they have shorter, curving ovipositors. A 1st for me, seen yesterday at Prenton Dell Claypit. @tanyptera.bsky.social
19.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for an Invertebrate Recording Day at Bagmere and Brereton Heath, Cheshire next week 🐝🐞🦋
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
17.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learn how to survey for and identify Leeches in our upcoming workshops
Leeches in the Field 7th Aug - Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve, Wirral www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeche...
Leech Identification Workshop 8th Aug - World Museum, www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeches/
15.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our next workshop will be the Dragonflies & Damselflies Weekend with Tony Parker at Rixton Clay Pits, Warrington on 5th & 6th July.
Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/dragon...
18.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Friday we'll be at Starr Hills Dunes, Lytham St Annes for our next Invertebrate Recording Day, book your free place to join us: app.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
16.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at Kindling Farm, Merseyside for an Invertebrate Recording Day this Sunday.
Kindling Farm is an organic, community-led 78-acre farm. The land includes species-rich native hedgerows, wildlife-friendly margins & several ponds
Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
16.06.2025 10:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next Friday ourselves and @tanyptera.bsky.social are hosting a spotlight session covering Soldierflies and Allies. Join us as we practice ID in a friendly setting.
FREE event, find out more and book 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1734115
10.06.2025 09:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at Trowbarrow Local Nature Reserve & Hawes Water for our next Invertebrate Recording Day 🐜🐝🦋
Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
09.06.2025 08:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Register – Search for a Nationally Scarce Hoverfly – Chester Zoo Nature Reserve
We're looking for volunteers to help with the search for an elusive species of hoverfly. Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'National...
🙋♀️ Help us search for an elusive species of hoverfly.
🧐 Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'Nationally Scarce' species. We want to see if this unusual species is living in the Nature Reserve at Chester Zoo and for this we need your help!
👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...
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01.06.2025 08:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🐛Some of you aren't receiving our newsletter/emails, this is due to an IT issue that we hope will be resolved soon. If you haven't received it you can read the May update here 🐞: mailchi.mp/39917e5318a0...
30.05.2025 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on 21 May, 2:30pm for a Spotlight Session on Ladybirds 🐞
We'll be having a go at some ladybird identification along with
@tanyptera.bsky.social. No experience is neccessary and there will be free tea and biscuits ☕🍪
Register here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...
13.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our next webinar is Fly Pupae with the fantastic Erica McAlister 🦟 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
12.05.2025 16:04 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at Cross Hill Quarry, Clitheroe on the 16th May.
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
07.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our upcoming Invertebrate Recording Day at Beacon Country Park on 9th May 🐛🦋🐝
The site consists of wildflower meadows, ponds, ditches, an orchard and areas of semi-natural woodland.
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
29.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the nice points that I often raise is that mosquitoes are not always problematic - although research is limited, many species now are highlighted as #pollinators
@tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore #mosquitoes
29.04.2025 08:49 — 👍 58 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
Malaria or Ague as it was known was once common(ish) in the British Isles. Although we still have the vectors we don’t have the plasmodium.
Draining wetlands, Little Ice Age, improved housing, reduced exposure - all may have helped then…
@tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore
28.04.2025 21:06 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
In the @tanyptera.bsky.social Mosquito webinar tonight by Thom Dallimore, we were introduced to the common names of our UK species…..
#Mosquitoes #commonnames
28.04.2025 20:18 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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