Two millipede species new to Britain found in south Wales
Two (yes, TWO!) species of chourdeumatid millipede new to Britain, Ceratosphys amoena ssp. confusa (Ribaut, 1955) and Hylebainosoma nontronensis Mauriès & Kime, 1999, have been recently found outdoors in south Wales - ON THE SAME DAY!
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Annual Field Meeting 2015
Annual Field Meeting and AGM
The Lowport Centre, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th April 2015
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BMIG Newsletter 29 (Autumn 2014)
Contents: Editorial; The Ecclesiastical Millipede Polyxenus; Gap Fillers – Woodlouse Recording Scheme; Further myriapods from an isolated island; The Spiky Yellow Woodlouse Pseudolaureola atlantica; Iridovirus in North Dulwich; Chordeuma proximum in Suffolk; More swarming millipedes; In the journals; CIM.
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An introduction to Woodlice, Millipedes & Centipedes
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
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An introduction to Woodlice, Millipedes & Centipedes
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
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BMIG Newsletter 28 (Spring 2014)
Contents: Editorial; The first “British” record of Scutigera coleoptrata; Chordeuma proximum in Yorkshire; iSpot; In the journals; Doug Richardson 1919 - 2013; Michael R. Warburg 1931 - 2014; Robert George 1921 - 2013; John Cloudsley-Thompson 1921 - 2013; 9th ISTIB France 2014; 16th ICM Czech Republic 2014.
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An introduction to Woodlice
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.
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Annual Field Meeting 2014
Annual Field Meeting and AGM
Saughy Rigg Farm B&B, Twice Brewed, Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th April 2014
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BMIG Newsletter 27 (Autumn 2013)
Contents: 2014 BMIG AGM and Field Weekend; A second Cornish site for Eurygeophilus pinguis; Henia vesuviana taking a bath in Lancashire; Annotated list of Isopoda & Myriapoda found Lundy in 2012 and 2013; What is our most isolated centipede record?; Possible Anamastigona pulchella from Oxford City; Recent Millipede Finds at Glasgow Necropolis; Further Records of the centipede Stigmatogaster souletina.
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