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The first ever Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group Conference (including The Eric Hollowday Lecture) was held on Sunday 27 April 2025
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. These can be viewed on YouTube via the links below.
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?
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