Butterfly Conservation are running a number of training sessions and events throughout June and July.
If you are interested in any of these events please ensure that you book on, as places are limited to 15 for each moth trapping and 25 for butterfly transect recording.
Friday 14th (evening) and Saturday 15th June (morning), moth trapping at Claver Hill Community Garden and Nature Reserve, Lancaster. Justine Patton, our moth expert, will be setting traps in the evening and emptying them in the morning on the site. We will be doing some evening netting as well. Justine will be showing us how to set and run trapping, how to ID moths and looking at the variety of species we trap.
If you would like to attend, please book with me, Claire Cornish using this email address, or ring me on 01524 812041.
Friday 28th June (evening) and Saturday 29th June (morning), moth trapping at Fairfield Nature Reserve, Lancaster. Justine Patton, our moth expert, will be setting traps in the evening and emptying them in the morning on the site. We will be doing some evening netting as well. Justine will be showing us how to set and run trapping, how to ID moths and looking at the variety of species we trap.
If you would like to attend, please book with me, Claire Cornish, email: clairecornish@hotmail.com or ring me on 01524 812041.
Sunday 28th July, Butterfly Identification and Recording training day from Levens Institute and in the field.
Monitoring populations of our butterfly and moth populations is becoming increasingly important and Butterfly Conservation would love to welcome new recorders confident in using the standard scientifically validated methods.
You can learn the methodology of transect recording relevant to both the standard Pollard walks and the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey. At the indoor classroom session at Levens Village Institute we will cover the identification of butterflies and day-flying moths of the North West of England, how to plan your transect walk and how to enter the results on-line. Then we will travel the short distance to White Scar to practice our newly acquired skills.
The course will be led by Chris Winnick and Martin Chadwick.
Please book a place on this Butterfly Conservation funded course by contacting Chris Winnick by email chriswinnick@tiscali.co.uk or on 01539 728254.