A day to enhance and share knowledge of invertebrates with exhibitions, sales, network and consultation time amongst speakers on entomological themes.
Pre-booking essential via our website
Please bring your own lunch.
Teas/coffee/cake and biscuits at the breaks are included in the £15 fee.
Exhibitors
There is no charge, but please be prepared to drop off just outside and then park up
outside Head Office – next door to keep parking spaces for the participants. THANK YOU
09:30 Onwards: Registration for participants which will close at 10:25.
All Attending
Please bring any specimens you would like to ask about. We will have local and national experts on many taxa including Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Psocoptera…… and others. There will be a wealth of experience amongst the attendees and presenters including artists and field notebook specialists.
Bring and Buy Sale in the Queen Anne Room
Please bring along any entomological books/equipment etc for a bring and buy book sale and place these on the second hand book stand with an honesty pot – and be prepared to take your unsold items away again.
Images
There will be a rolling slide show of images from David Williams, a local entomologist and photographer, in the Caradoc room
Example Timetable
09:00 Early arrival for exhibitors. Please register and place exhibitions in the Queen Anne Room.
Draft Programme of speakers in the Caradoc Room
(Please note that the times and speakers may vary if there are any last minute availability issues)
10:00 Keynote Address: James Lawrence and Ewan Chapman
National Trust Sandscapes Project Manager and Countryside Manager
Sandscapes: Restoring the Heathlands
A nature recovery project aiming to restore and re-connect areas of sandy habitats across the Midland lowland heath in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. There have been many national and local entomologists helping with survey work - this is an overview of the whole projects aims and progress in creating habitat suitable for enhanced species richness and diversity.
11:15
Coffee and biscuits
First chance to look at the exhibits
11:45
Dudmaston and Kinver Invertebrate reports
Andy Jukes from Conops Entomology Ltd
Invertebrates of the sandscapes area
Interesting invertebrates found at Sandscapes study sites
12.15
Andy Cherril from Harper Adams University
Baseline and early responses of Auchenorrhyncha to restoration
12:45 -14:00
Lunch
Networking, exhibitions, book sales and consultations.
The common rooms in Darwin and the Queen Ann house will be open for you to eat your own lunches with coffee points nearby.
Informal networking session, consultations and collections.
From 13:30 to 14:00 there will be microscopes set up in Darwin workroom where local entomologists will be available to consult on identification.
14:00
5 Minute presentations:
Kirk Mason
Soil, Sulphur & Scrapes; Carabid response to heathland restoration
Huw Williams
The little things in rewilding
Kevin McGee
Rare inverts at Orford Ness, its why I love my job (sometimes)!
Sam Clark
Short responses of leafhopper following heathland creation
14: 20
Nigel Jones
Wednesday JoWsters - 10 years of recording invertebrates and
other wildlife in Shropshire
14:50
Afternoon tea and cake
A final chance for the exhibitions
15:20
Sandinista!
Pete Boardman ( Entomologist with the Natural England Field Unit)
Surveys on heathlands, Brecks, arable margins, and other sandy soils.
15:45
Summing up of the presentations
16:00
14th EntoDay closes
Chair Sue Dancey Organisers and helpers Clare Boyes, Nigel Jones, Maria Justamond, David Williams, Supporters: FSC, especially Preston Montford Field Centre (Arran Holdsworth, Liz Wilcox) and FSC Publications, all speakers, and exhibitors. Thank you all
What's Included
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Free Wi-Fi -
Hot and Cold Drinks
Exhibitors and their websites/contact details
Kevin McGee - Entomological artwork & prints
Before You Attend
Getting There
Preston Montford, Montford Bridge, Shrewsbury SY4 1DX
Direct enquiries: 01743 852040 (Mon-Fri, 9am–5pm)
- By Road: From the A5, take the roundabout exit signposted to Mid-Wales and Welshpool (A458). One mile along this road, turn right onto B4473, we are located on the left after approx ½ mile.
- By Bus or Train: Shrewsbury stations.
Refreshments will be provided, but please bring your own lunch.
Opportunities to attend this course
This course is not currently available to book. Dates will follow soon.
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