• Big Bug Day at Foxearth Meadows

    Sudbury
    Saturday 28th June 2025, 10:30 to 15:00

    Free family event celebrating Insect Week, with activities for all ages. Join in bug hunts, see moths up close, shake a bush.

    • Alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies
    • Angel insects
    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Booklice, barklice and parasitic lice
    • Bristletails
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Caddisflies or sedge flies
    • Cockroaches and termites
    • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • Earwigs
    • Fleas
    • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
    • Ice crawlers and heelwalkers
    • Lacewings, antlions and mantidflies
    • Mantises
    • Mayflies or upwing flies
    • Scorpionflies
    • Silverfish and firebrats
    • Snakeflies
    • Stick-insects
    • Stoneflies
    • Thrips
    • True bugs
    • True flies
    • Twisted wing flies
    • Webspinners
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Open day
    • Tour
    • Walk

  • Bug Club day at Dinton Pastures

    Hurst, Berkshire
    Saturday 28th June 2025, 10:00 to 16:00

    The AES Bug Club will visit the BENHS rooms to look at moths caught the previous night, explore the BENHS library and collections and look for insects in the country park.

    • Butterflies and moths
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Biological recording
    • Open day
    • Talk
    • Tour

  • Discover the world of insects!

    Bristol
    Tuesday 25th June 2024, 12:00 to 18:00

    Come and meet research biologists and the amazing diversity of insects we study.

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Cockroaches and termites
    • Mantises
    • Stick-insects
    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Exhibition
    • Interactive stand
    • Open day

  • Entomology at Dinton Pastures Country Park

    Hurst
    Saturday 29th June 2024, 10:00 to 16:00

    Join the Amateur Entomologists' Society and British Entomological & Natural History Society for a day of entomology at Dinton Pastures Country Park. Preceded by Friday night session moth trapping with Berkshire Moth Group.

    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Biological recording
    • Open day

  • Family Wildlife Day

    York, North Yorkshire
    Sunday 30th June 2024, 11:00 to 16:00

    Stillingfleet Lodge Garden is an award winning wildlife garden. On our annual wildlife day we are joined by local experts who lead a range of child-friendly activities, including bug hunts, bee walks and pond dipping.

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Biological recording
    • Exhibition
    • Interactive stand
    • Open day

  • Moth Hunters

    East Lothian , Scotland, UK
    Monday 1st July 2024, 09:00 to 12:00

    Celebrate Insect Week 2024 with family friendly activities at the National Museum of Flight.  Inspired by the work of Scottish…

    • Butterflies and moths
    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Interactive stand
    • Open day

  • Cockaynes Activity Day

    Alresford, Essex
    Sunday 25th June 2023, 11:00 to 16:00

    Family activity day at Cockaynes Wood Nature Reserve…

    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Open day
    • Walk

  • Annual Family Wildlife Day

    YORK
    Sunday 25th June 2023, 11:00 to 16:00

    An annual celebration of local wildlife, including visiting experts and plenty of activities for all the family. Bee identification walks and experts on butterflies and dragonflies are planning to join us.

    • Butterflies and moths
    • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Exhibition
    • Open day
    • Walk

  • AES & BENHS Joint Bug Club Event

    READING
    Saturday 24th June 2023, 10:00 to 16:30

    A meeting at the Wokingham HQ of the British Entomological & Natural History Society arranged for the AES Bug Club…

    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Biological recording
    • Open day
    • Walk
    • Workshop