Are you a member and interested in accessing our library, collections and equipment? Our Members Open Days are a great way to visit our Headquarters at Dinton Pastures and the next is this Sunday! www.benhs.org.uk/event/member...
22.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Events Archive - British Entomological & Natural History Society
Enjoying the warm weather and interested in joining others in the field? We have some exciting field meetings across the summer to get involved in - see events marked in green on the website www.benhs.org.uk/events/
03.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beetling into a week of leave with @britentsoc.bsky.social 🐞🪲, #DeepPurple 🤘🤘, and #ArborAles 🍻
06.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A CHECKLIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLES (2nd Edition) - British Entomological & Natural History Society
New digital publication available for free on our website! A checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles (2nd Edition): covering all British macro-moths, micro-moths and butterflies, this is an indispensable reference for any serious lepidopterist. www.benhs.org.uk/publications...
01.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 43 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
Deadline on Saturday to apply for this funding round, if you're interested get in touch!
28.05.2025 19:51 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Bookings are going well so don’t miss out on the BENHS Harvestman workshop with Meg Skinner and her new test British key to ID them . . .
To book: mail indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk providing a mobile contact number.
26.05.2025 12:20 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
GRANTS AND AWARDS - British Entomological & Natural History Society
Are you looking for funding for entomological research? This year we have an additional opportunity to submit to our Professor Hering and Maitland Emmet Funds by 31st May 2025. See more on our website www.benhs.org.uk/about/grants...
14.05.2025 20:19 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
BENHS Dinton Pastures - Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
Image: Steven Falk
23.04.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS Harvestman ID workshop - Meg Skinner June 7 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Dinton Pasture, Nr. Reading
Meg runs the UK recording scheme for Harvestmen through the British Arachnological Society
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, supplying a mobile phone contact number
01.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Annual Members' Day 2025 - British Entomological & Natural History Society
Only three weeks to go until our Annual Members' Day at Oxford University Museum of Natural History! Access the full programme here: www.benhs.org.uk/event/member...
02.03.2025 18:33 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by British Entomological and Natural History Society
A beginner's guide to sawflies (Andrew Halstead)
For those of you who missed our Annual Virtual Meeting on Saturday, you can watch the recordings now! The AGM is available through the website members' area and the guest speaker, Andrew Halstead, is available to all here youtu.be/IBjdj0OXa5U
18.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Make sure to join us this Saturday 15th of February 2-4pm at our Annual Meeting to discuss society matters and hear 'A beginner's guide to sawflies' by Andrew Halstead! We'll be meeting over Zoom, link to be posted on the website Members' Area and emailed to membership.
10.02.2025 23:06 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS Dinton Pastures - – Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
03.02.2025 21:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS Dinton Pastures - Hoverfly identification - Martin Harvey September 6th, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
03.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS indoor workshop – Saturday 9th August 2025 An introduction to leafhoppers and allied groups – Alan Stewart (Sussex). Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
03.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
In case you missed it, you can now watch my Brad Ashby memorial lecture for @britentsoc.bsky.social and LNHS on YouTube! ☺️
24.01.2025 20:39 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by London Natural History Society
Electric Ecology: How Invertebrates Capitalise on Static Electricity
Last night's Brad Ashby Memorial lecture is available on YouTube now! Learn how pollinators, parasites, and prey capitalise on static electricity with Dr Sam England www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3R5...
24.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's tonight! Link to tonight's Brad Ashby lecture is up on the members area of the website benhs.org.uk/members-area/
23.01.2025 06:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our Annual Virtual Meeting Saturday 15th of February 2-4pm to discuss society matters and hear 'A beginner's guide to sawflies' by Andrew Halstead (photo credit). We'll be meeting over Zoom, link to be posted on the website Members' Area and emailed to membership.
19.01.2025 18:58 — 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshop Sawfly identification – Andrew Green and Andrew Halstead. April 12th, Dinton pasture CP
To find out more – www.benhs.org.uk/event/sawfly...
Image: Stephen Falk
17.01.2025 17:27 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I'm very excited to give this talk in January! It's free to attend via zoom if you're interested! :)
19.12.2024 16:30 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
It's not a BENHS publication, so not available through us, but can be found through other outlets
09.01.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Devil's Coach horse is indeed one of the common names of Ocypus olens, which is one of the UK's largest rove beetles. Staphylinid (rove) beetles account for more than a quarter of the total number of beetle species in this country, with over 1000 Staph species on the UK list.
09.01.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
GiGL, London's local environmental records centre, is now here on Blusky. Why not be one of their first followers?
@gigl-lerc.bsky.social
09.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Note: Date change.
BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshops begin with Staphylinidae identification workshop – Roger Booth (NHM) March 1st, Dinton Pasture CP.
To find out more - www.benhs.org.uk/event/staphy...
Image: Jon Cole
09.01.2025 12:58 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshops begin with Staphylinidae identification workshop – Roger Booth (NHM) February 22nd, Dinton Pasture CP.
To find out more - www.benhs.org.uk/event/staphy...
Image: Jon Cole
05.01.2025 21:30 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The much anticipated 2nd Edition of Ants: Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman is out . . . . More delicious learning to undertake, lifelong learning at its most enjoyable!
04.01.2025 11:02 — 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
BENHS last 2024 workshop taking place right now - Weevil Identification with Mark Gurney at The Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
8 intrepid attendees lapping up Mark's clear and enthusiastic pointers for identifying these remarkable insects
www.benhs.org.uk/events/
14.12.2024 11:57 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Electric Ecology: How Invertebrates Capitalise on Static Electricity
Join us and Dr Sam England for our next Brad Ashby Memorial Lecture
Thursday, January 23, 2025 · 7 - 8:30pm over Zoom
Booking open now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/electric-e...
12.12.2024 18:24 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Rewilding pioneers, working with nature for a sustainable future.
https://knepp.co.uk/
Get our latest news: https://knepp.co.uk/newsletter-signup/
We are the capital's environmental records centre. Our website: https://www.gigl.org.uk/
Submit your species records here: https://www.gigl.org.uk/submit-records/submit-a-record/
Updates from the United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS).
To find out more about the scheme visit - https://ukbms.org/
Seabirds | Scilly Birding | Scilly Pelagics | Rockpooling | On the magical Isles of Scilly 🏝️
Seabird Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:25f3ymfqqg6cjzijggpbdz7q/feed/aaacp4v7qldjy #seabirds
www.scillyrockpoolsafaris.co.uk 🦀
Field mycologist with a passion for grassland fungi. Interested in the history of mycology. Bang into biological recording. Located in West Sussex, UK.
Zoologist, Ecologist, and Conservationist with a particular interest in birds and insects. Organiser of the British Isles Lacewing and Allies Recording Scheme.
Green Roof Organisation #GRO UK Trade Association for Green/Blue/BioSolar #greenroofs. Producing guidance and bringing professional & passionate people together.
https://www.greenrooforganisation.org
Plant health, invasive species, IPM scientist - trying to balance agriculture and nature. Based in Northern Ireland.
Membership body for Flood Risk & Water Level Management Authorities across the UK. Member of the European Union of Water Management Associations (EUWMA) www.ada.org.uk
Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Surveying and baselining inverts in the farmed environment. Bees, wasps, ants and flies amongst my favourite groups.
Kent Field Club, founded in 1955, aims to study, record, and deepen the understanding and appreciation of the natural history of Kent, UK. Find more, see our publications, and/or join us here https://www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/
The British Arachnological Society (BAS) is the UK’s only body devoted exclusively to the study of arachnids (spiders, harvestmen & pseudoscorpions): https://britishspiders.org.uk. To record GB spiders, please use https://irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.
Founded 1849.
Helping to protect and promote Somerset’s rich heritage and natural environment.
Local Environmental Records Centre for the West of England (BaNES, BCC, SGlos, NSom).
Email records to us, we digitise and manage species and habitat data, and disseminate it.
Celebrating the moths of Dorset. Reposts, moth news and occasional hints and tips from the Dorset Moths verification team.
www.dorsetmoths.co.uk
The Local Environmental Records Centre for Surrey. Collects, manages and disseminates site, species and habitat data to enable informed decision making and a better understanding of the landscape of Surrey.
Enabling data-driven decisions to better enhance and protect our natural environment.
Sharing environmental information in Berkshire and Oxfordshire: www.tverc.org
https://linktr.ee/TVERC
Flies/sawflies mostly; mostly from Yorkshire, UK.
Run the UK Heleomyzid Recording Scheme...
https://dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-scheme/home
...and Yorkshire County Recorder for Sawflies
https://www.ynu.org.uk/recording-sections/sections/insects/sawflies
