Courses

Led by Steve Gregory An introductory workshop to the identification of woodlice, millipedes and centipedes.  Based at Dinton Pastures, Reading.   For more information see BENHS website

It may be a year away, but these courses have a habit of filling up, so here is advance notification of a subsidised training day at Preston Montford, in November 2017!   Book now to avoid disappointment.  Details of venue and booking can be found on the FSC website.  Led by BMIG's Paul Richards.   In this introduction to the identification of UK centipedes & millipedes you will learn the techniques of identification for the frequently

  Held at the BENHS buildings at Dinton Pastures, near Reading.   Details of venue and booking can be found at http://www.benhs.org.uk/about/meetings/   This introductory workshop will be led by Steve Gregory (Organiser of BMIG Woodlouse Recording Scheme) and covers the identification of British woodlice, millipedes and centipedes; about 150 species, many of which can be identified in the field.

By Steve Gregory at Dinton Pastures, Reading (BENHS)

A one day free introductory workshop to the identification of woodlice, millipedes and centipedes. Following a presentation on the characters used to identify these groups, participants will have the chance to name their own material or specimens made available on the day from the BMIG reference collection which is housed at Dinton Pastures.

For further details, including directions, see http://www.benhs.org.uk/site/?q=node/17

 

Steve Gregory (Dinton Pastures, Reading - BENHS)

A free introductory workshop to the identification of woodlice, millipedes and centipedes. After a presentation on the characters used to identify these groups, participants will have the chance to name their own material or specimens made available on the day from the BMIG reference collection housed at Dinton Pastures.

For full details will be made available in due course: http://www.benhs.org.uk/site/?q=node/17

 

Paul Richards

(BESS project, Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield & Sorby Natural History Society Myriapod & Isopod recorder)

Date: Saturday, 29th March, 2014.    10:00 – 15:00

JG Graves Woodland Discovery Centre, Ecclesall woods, Sheffield.   

Paul Richards (Sheffield – Sorby Natural History Society)

Through a morning indoor session we will learn to recognize the main types of millipede and look closely at the 33 species local to Sheffield.  One of these only occurs in Ecclesall woods, so we will be well placed to search for that and other specimens and then study our finds under microscopes in the afternoon.

Steve Gregory (Goring-on-Thames - Withymead Nature Reserve)

Steve Gregory leads this course, as the leading expert on woodlice, (author of 'Woodlice and Waterlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea & Asellota) in Britain and Ireland' the definitive atlas for the group), he is sure to provide a true experts eye view...

There will be a classroom session in our study centre, followed by a walk around Withymead putting theory into practice.