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Butterflies: Are they the canaries in the mine?

30th September 202530th September 2025 Ian Short Indoor meeting

For our Indoor Meeting this month, on Thursday 9th October, Dr Lesley Lace has kindly agreed to speak to us about butterfly conservation. She is a lecturer in Invertebrate Ecology at Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy, a position she has held for 34 years.Before studying for her PhD, she was assistant keeper of Zoology at Manchester University. Dr […]

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Windhover – A Year among Kestrels

16th September 202516th September 2025 Ian Short Indoor meeting

Many thanks to Laurence Rose for a fascinating talk about the many things he learned during his year devoted to studying the family of Kestrels living in his area. Click the ‘Continue reading’ button to activate the links, then you will find the slides from this talk are now here. The story will soon be […]

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Threatened Invertebrates in Lancashire

14th March 202531st March 2025 Ian Short Indoor meeting
Lathrobium rufipenne

Our April Indoor meeting, at 7.30pm on Thursday 10th April 2025 will be a talk by Gary Hedges about improving our understanding of threatened Invertebrates in Lancashire Gary Hedges is an Entomologist based in World Museum, Liverpool. Within entomology, he specialises in weevils and leaf beetles, and moths, but has a wide natural history interest […]

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