There are insect-related events online, throughout the UK, and beyond.

Find out about an Insect Week event taking place near you or online in June 2024.

We include all different types of activities relating to insects: from bug hunts, tours, talks, workshops, to creative activities, exhibitions and performances.

 

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  • Nature Photography Workshop: All Things Bright and Beautiful – Butterflies, Moths and Flowers

    Dorchester
    Friday 26th July 2024, 09:00 to 13:00

    This is a workshop designed for beginners and intermediate nature and wildlife photographers who wish to develop or enhance practical and technical photography skills.

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
    • Mayflies or upwing flies
    • True bugs
    • 14-18 Years
    • Adults
    • Talk

  • entoLIVE webinar – Sow Wild! and Insect Identification

    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.

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • True bugs
    • True flies
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Talk
    • Video

  • entoLIVE webinar – Biodiversity Net Gain: What Could BNG Mean For Pollinators?

    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…

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • True bugs
    • True flies
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Talk
    • Video

  • entoLIVE webinar – Glowing, Glowing, Gone? The Plight of the Glow-worm in Essex

    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…

    • Beetles
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Adults
    • Talk
    • Video