Balfour-Browne Club field meeting 20th-24th June 2024 in Calabria national park (ITALY) open to BENHS members. Those coleopterists interested in attending please get in touch with Garth Foster lastissimus@btinternet.com You’ll need a permesso di recercatore to collect any beetles!  

Car park at ST479653 behind a locked gate. Day time meeting for general invertebrates from 1.30pm until 3.30/4.00pm and then light trapping in the evening from 8.30pm. The site has a rich remnant area of limestone heath surrounded by woodland with much of the latter recently added to the area managed by the Wildlife Trust.  […]

SU708658. An approximately 50 acre site consisting of unimproved grassland and deciduous woodland. It is believed that this site has never been worked before, so it's not known what one can expect. Joint meeting with Berkshire Moth Group. Meet 3.00pm for day work (e.g. clearwings (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) pheromoning), and at 7.00pm for an on-site barbeque […]

Joint Amateur Entomologist’s Society Bug Club meeting this on Saturday, preceded by Friday night session moth trapping, also with Berkshire Moth Group at SU784718. There will be the usual "meet a moth" event on Saturday morning. This event coincides with National Insect Week (24th – 30th June’24). Leader: Ian Sims (ian.sims57@hotmail.com).

Moth traps envisaged both nights. Habitat is varied and includes wet and dry meadow (well off the beaten track), and broad-leaved woodland. Leader: Glenda Orledge: bssgmo@bath.ac.uk

Forestry Commission likely to confirm with permission granted as per last season. See the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History for further details.

SE road from University of Greenwich campus; coastal grassland with hawthorn and sallow scrub. Light-trapping event if at all possible. 17'00 hours start. Weather-permitting the following species should be expected: Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar): several L5 larvae were noted last year; Lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria), and M. castrensis perhaps; Aspitates, both A. ochrearius and A.gilvaria, […]

Meeting at 1830 hours outside Strand Cafe, Commodore's Way, Gillingham, KENT (TQ783692); BR station Gillingham. Car park in vicinity is closed at 2100 hours. This coastal site has potential; lightraps can be placed in the scrub behind the sea wall; halophytic flora suggest interesting fauna especially Sterrhinae (Lep. Geometridae). Leader: Gareth King stacls.medway.teachers@gmail.com

31st July, 2024 approx. Alpi Marittime National Park, Cuneo, ITALY. Permission is in the process of being granted. I have been here many times* since 2008. Please approach leader: Gareth King: sterrhinae@gmail.com for further details. Turin is the nearest airport as is Milan with two-hour fleccia rosa trains to Turin (Borgo San Dalmazzo is the […]

August 2024: Rimetea, western ROMANIA, European Lepidopterists Society (SEL) study site. I have obtained permission already. This is a long-term project. It is a sub-Mediterranean, Euro-Asiatic site with little data available to date. Please approach leader: Gareth King: sterrhinae@gmail.com for further details.