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Monday 25th November 2024, 19:00 to 20:00
Glowing, Glowing, Gone? The Plight of the Glow-worm in Essex Join Dr Tim Gardiner to hear about his research into the decline of one of Britain’s most iconic beetles. The glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) is thought to be declining in the United Kingdom. Yet, much of the evidence for this is…
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Monday 28th October 2024, 13:00 to 14:00
Biodiversity Net Gain: What Could BNG Mean For Pollinators? Join Dr Jeff Ollerton for an exploration of what Biodiversity Net Gain could mean for pollinators in England. Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) promises to transform the way that we approach nature conservation in the UK. At the moment the focus of…
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Tuesday 15th October 2024, 13:00 to 14:00
Cave Spiders: Behavioural Adaptations in Webs, Foraging and Dispersal Free webinar with Dr Thomas Hesselberg exploring behavioural adaptations in cave spiders. Web-building spiders are excellent model organisms to study the behavioural adaptations to novel habitats such as the dark and food-limited subterranean cave habitat. Cave-dwelling orb spiders in the genus Meta show…
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Tuesday 1st October 2024, 13:00 to 14:00
Sow Wild! and Insect Identification Free webinar investigating the success of ‘mini meadows’ and testing the ability of citizen scientists to sample and identify insects. Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered the foremost threats in pollinator decline, and in England and Wales, 97% of wildflower meadows were lost by 1984.
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Wednesday 18th September 2024, 19:00 to 20:00
A World of Wasps: Researching the Ichneumonid Wasps Free webinar with Dr Gavin Broad exploring the understudied world of Ichneumonid wasps. Huge numbers of insects are hosts to parasitoid wasps, and one of the most successful groups of wasps is the Ichneumonoidea, or Darwin Wasps. Despite the ubiquity of Darwin…
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Wednesday 17th July 2024, 13:00 to 14:00
Hoverfly Lagoons Project: A Journey into the Past, Present and Future Free webinar with Dr Ellen Rotheray about the highly successful Hoverfly Lagoons project and introducing aquatic habitats into small spaces. The Hoverfly Lagoons project was invented in 2016 for the University of Sussex’s Buzz Club, a citizen science charity…
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London
Saturday 1st June 2024, 10:00 to Sunday 30th March 2025, 17:00
From minibeasts to coral reefs, enter the world of Tiny Giants, and journey through the habitats of the planet’s smallest but mightiest animals. Shining a spotlight on the planet’s smallest superheroes: from underwater corals and the aquatic wildlife they support, to industrious leafcutter ants, spiders and beetles – we’re celebrating…
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The Riverfly Partnership supports projects that are designed to assess the health of Britain’s rivers. Volunteers are trained to become citizen scientists and join a team to monitor their local river. They detect and report serious pollution incidents and create long-term data sets. Find resources for children and…
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Wednesday 26th June 2024, 16:15 to 16:45
We are launching the National Education Nature Park Pollinator Count - the programme's first biodiversity survey!…
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Bristol
Tuesday 25th June 2024, 12:00 to 18:00
Come and meet research biologists and the amazing diversity of insects we study.
