What's on

These events pages detail the various local and national events that the BAS is either organising or attending throughout the year. These activities are divided into several categories above. Events are organised at either by BAS Council (national events) or by the BAS Regional Coordinators and local Mentors throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

In 2022 we hope to start to return to a more normal programme of events and courses as it becomes safe to do so. We are already advertising the first batch of courses organised by the Field Studies Council with BAS tutors - contact details are given for each event and more details for many of them will be available nearer the time. Other events will be added through the year, as they are organised - please keep an eye on these pages. Please note that our Annual General Meeting will once again be held by Zoom.

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  • Field ID of Spiders

    Morden Hall Park (image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license)Image thanks to

    This is a one-day introduction to identifying live spiders in the field. This will include identifying some distinctive species, as well as beginning to recognise some spider families. The morning will be spent on several hours of classroom teaching, followed by opportunity in the afternoon to put this into practice finding and identifying spiders around Morden Hall Park.

    Your tutor will be BAS member Martin Frost.

    No previous experience is needed, and participants do not need to bring anything other than notebook, pen and lunch. If you have a hand lens or any spider identification guides, please do bring these along, but we will have some to lend out too.

    CLICK HERE for more information on the event and HERE for more information on the venue.

     

     

    Location: Morden Hall Park
    Time: 10.00 - 16.00
    Costs: £18.00 (FREE to under 25s)
    Contact: Children & Young People Hub - Morden Hall Park: phone 020 8545 2361; email mordenhallparkcyp@nationaltrust.org.uk

  • NFBR 40th Celebration: Data for Nature

    The NFBR's conference on the subject of Data for Nature will consider what kind of data we most need in order to rescue the UK's natural environment, and how we can ensure this is properly funded and accessible in order to achieve lasting nature recovery. Speakers will represent a range of perspectives and we welcome anyone with an interest in biological records and nature recovery to join the conversation.

    Meg Skinner, organiser of the BAS Harvestman Recording Scheme will be delivering a talk on Friday 8th May as part of this event: "Harvestmen: Insights into an overlooked group".

    Location: The Signing Tree conference centre, Birmingham
    Dates: -

Please contact eventsATbritishspiders.org.uk to have arachnological courses, workshops, stands at fairs listed here and on our social media. (NOTE: Because of the large amount of spam e-mails the Society receives, the e-mail addresses have been disguised - to e-mail please change 'AT' to '@'.)