BWARS Members’ Weekend 16–17th September 2023
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Programme:
Sat 16th
12:00 Doors open for general gathering & lunch. Please bring your food as there is no café on site; tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day.
13:30 – 16:45 Workshops. Booking required! Two workshops will each run twice, so that members will be able to attend both if they wish!
1) Paola Rosa & Mike Edwards – Chrysididae. Recent investigations into the British Chrysididae have uncovered several new species, quite apart from the very awkward Chrysis ignita group. This workshop will help you identify your own material, at least to Genus and hopefully beyond. Comparative material and appropriate key(s) will be available, but, above all, BRING ANY SPECIMENS YOU HAVE, named or unnamed. They should be on a pin and, ideally, with the jaws open and genitalia/hidden metasomal segments drawn out. The Chrysis ignita group will not be covered in this workshop, but anything else is fair game.
2) Andrew Jarman – Myrmica. Identifying the ant genus Myrmica and distinguishing its species.
13:30 – 16:45 Rowan Edwards will be available to give ‘Insights into your data’ and answer your data questions.
13:30 – 16:45 Id Surgery - help session to identify members' own specimens, for those not attending both workshops.
17:00 Meeting close.
Members are invited to join us for an evening meal, venue to be arranged; please book.
Sun 17th
09:00 Doors open
09:30 AGM followed by Presentations:
Paola Rosa - A history of the British Chrysids; the surprises which lurk in Museum collections.
Richard Dawson - ISO for Dummies; introduction.
Jacob Podesta - Wood ants in an anthropogenic forest: interactions between plantation and a native woodland specialist.
Clare Boyes & Rowan Edwards - Making the most of your data.
Mike Edwards - What's in the Garden; based on Mike’s own garden in Midhurst.
Please bring your own lunch as there is no café on site; tea and coffee will be provided.
16:00 Meeting close
The event is free to members, but please book your place in advance by email to the Secretary (contact details in BWARS Newsletter and on website) by Fri 1st Sept.
Details of meeting points etc will be sent to attendees by email prior to the event.
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MAPS and species concepts.
The majority of species now have distribution maps on their profile pages.
TITLES AND DATE CLASSES FOR MAPS:
| MAP TITLES: species name: iso. source : year of publication iso: in the sense of source: author of the species description and key year: year of publication of species description and key (NB. This is NOT the date of the map. Most maps include records up to 2020) DATE CLASSES: Darkest green squares are 2015 to present; Dark green squares are 2005 to 2014; Light green squares are 1995 to 2004; Palest green squares are pre 1995. |
For further infomation about maps and species concepts go HERE
The BWARS website contains pages for each British and Irish species of bee, wasp and ant. Most pages contain a detailed account, photos, distribution map, life history and conservation status. Features such as videos and identification advice are being added over time.
You can find species accounts in three ways
- Browse through the Species
- Select a species from the A-Z of species
- Type a species name into the search box at the top left of any page.