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Field meeting details have now been circulated to members of BIG. Contact us if you'd like to join or find out more.

The first ever Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group Conference (including The Eric Hollowday Lecture) was held on Sunday 27 April 2025

This was an event for BIG members and other interested naturalists to share information about recent invertebrate recording in Buckinghamshire, and was a very enjoyable day. An excellent range of talks was given, and we hope to make these available as PDFs and/or recordings in the not too distant future - watch this space!

Thanks to all who attended, as well as to our speakers and those who helped to organise and run the day. Thanks also to BMERC for supporting this event.

The programme for the day was:

10:00 - Welcome and introduction (Mick Jones, chair)

10:10 - Session 1: Bucks invertebrate recorders/specialists

Dragonflies and damselflies in Bucks (Alan Nelson)
Recent moth records in Bucks (Martin Albertini)
Mostly millipedes ... in Bucks (Dr Helen Read)
Spiders in Bucks ... and web records (Bill Parker)

11:45 - Session 2: The Eric Hollowday Lecture

The extraordinary biology of bdelloid rotifers by Dr Chris Wilson

13:15 - Session 3: Keynote presentation

An overview of invertebrate recording in Bucks (Martin Harvey)

13:45 - Session 4: Invertebrate topics of interest

Discovering flies in Bucks (Sue Taylor)
Challenges of designing photographic field guides (Peter Creed)
Discovering ichneumons in Bucks (Neil Fletcher)
Recording bumblebees in Bucks for Bumblebee Conservation Trust (Linda Wells)
Using UV torches for recording lepidoptera (Geoff Sutton)
How on earth do we conserve the Downland Plume? (Nick Bowles)

15:45 - Session 5: Support for invertebrate recording in Bucks

Update from Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre
What else can BIG do to help?
Summing up

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