Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society Founded in 1877 - Charities Reg.: 508729 ______
Newsletter - No. 33 Session 124 Spring 2000
Hello to Everyone:
Just a short note to let you know that I (Steve Mc) have re-taken up the editorship of the Society Newsletter in conjunction with Simon Hayhow from Fylde Museum. If anyone has any information, current sitings, events or anecdotes that they would like to share with the LCES Membership, and beyond, then please do send copies to either Simon or myself by snail mail or by e-mail if you are connected.
Addresses to send items to are:
Simon Hayhow, Curator, Fleetwood Museum, Queens Terrace, Fleetwood, Fylde, Lancashire, FY7 6BT
Steve J. McWilliam, 4 Priory Close, Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 2BN e-mail: [email protected]
Many thanks, we will look forward to an avalanche of mail from you all. Without your help and support this newsletter will become mundane as we both run out of ideas and imagination. Please help.
Steve J. McWilliam.
Welcome to New Members:
Unfortunately I have not kept up with the changes in membership recently, though I promise that Simon and I will get on top of it. In the meantime may I welcome all members who have joined the Society in the last 12 months. We hope you enjoy your membership and find it useful in your entomological studies.
New LCES Meetings Venue:
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the Liverpool Museum is about to be highly renovated and new facilities provided via the application of almost £34 Million of Lottery monies, the Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society has had to arrange for alternative accommodation for the two year period during which attendance at the Museum will be disrupted. This alternative accommodation will come into force in September 1999 when meetings will be held at Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane, Frodsham, Cheshire - Grid Ref.: SJ521776
Biting Midges:
A holiday in the west coast of Ireland in 1998 brought us to the archaeological site of the Ceide Fields (pronounced 'Cadie') in County Mayo. In the excellent award-winning visitor centre I was interested to pick up a leaflet on "The Fiercest Animal Here" - The Ceide Midge.
This is Culicoides impunctatus, one of the biting midges. Three other species have been recorded but C. impunctatus is by far the commonest.
Biting midges are found world-wide in locations as diverse as the tropics and the sub-arctic. About 900 species of the genus (Culicoides) have so far been described.
During the summer the midges lay their eggs in batches of 40-50 or so. These hatch in 10 to 14 days, as tiny maggot-like-creatures. They spend the winter feeding on various algae, fungal spores and even other larvae. From
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 1 of 9 the following May to August, adults emerge from pupae in the ground, mate, and go in search of a blood meal. The midge, if unsuccessful in its search for blood, will actually digest some of her own flight muscle for its protein. This allows her to mature and lay a few of her eggs. She then goes looking again and this time she is vicious in her search for blood.
Having located her victim by smell she lands on exposed skin and crawls about, unnoticed, until she finds a soft spot into which she can start to cut with her delightful saw-toothed mouth-parts (the mandibles and maxillae). About 0.1ul (0.00000176 pints) of blood is sucked up while saliva which contains proteins that prevent blood from clotting, is pumped into the wound. Your body reacts to all this by secreting histamine which opens capillaries wider to allow more fighting white blood cells into the site of attack. If, at this stage you haven't squashed her, the midge will feed for 3 to 4 minutes before pulling out, her gorged belly now being swollen and scarlet. The itching and swelling are side-effects of the activity of your body's repair system which is at work healing the site of attack and fighting any infection.
Biting becomes less frequent towards late summer as the midge population decreases. On the other hand, maybe it is true what they say about Ceide, that come the first of September the midge loses the sight of one eye and so cannot see their victims so well anymore!
The Ceide Midge leaflet indicates that there are tales of the Ceide Midge back to the time of St Patrick. It is said that, having banished the pagan god Crom Dubh to his fort on Dun Briste, St Patrick struck the ground with his staff, creating a sea-stack on which Crom Dubh "was ate to death by the midges", a fate you would wish on nobody, not even a bad god!
Simon Hayhow.
Lancashire Moth Group:
A number of interested people met at Bolton Museum on 24th March 1999 with the aim of co-ordinating recording and taking forward the study of moths within the County of Lancashire. They represented the key societies and groups like Butterfly Conservation, Lancs. & Cheshire Fauna Committee and, of course L. & C. E. S. It was agreed that Steve Palmer, instigator of the meeting, would take on the recording of micros and Steve Garland would become macro recorder. A report on the 1998 season, both macros and micros, has been written by Steve Palmer and included with the Lancashire Butterfly Report, produced jointly by Butterfly Conservation and Lancashire County Museum Service. An encouraging response was received from an appeal for records and it is hoped that the annual report will bring in even more records in the future. It was agreed to keep the group informal at this stage but field meetings, indoor meetings and regular get-togethers in a local hostelry are planned. It is hoped to target field work at scarce or declining species with scientific papers and up to date checklists published in the L. & C. E. S. Proceedings in the future. We would welcome interest from any other moth recorders in Lancashire, experienced or beginners, and you can be put on a mailing list for future meetings. These will be a good chance to share experiences and improve identification skills.
Copies of the 1998 Lancashire Butterfly and Moth Report are available from Simon Hayhow, Fleetwood Museum, Queens Terrace, Fleetwood. FY7 6BT if you send an A4 s.a.e. or free if you have contributed records to it.
Identifying Insects:
A very useful review of basic identification guides or keys written by David Corke appeared in the February 1999 edition of 'British Wildlife' (Vol. 10, No. 3, p.153 - 163).
It is very useful if you are just getting started in insects and not sure of the standard work for a particular order.
Scaly Cricket Pseudomogolistes squamiger - No longer a British species:
The Scaly Cricket, only known from Chesil Beach in Dorset until 1998 discoveries in Devon and The Channel Islands, is probably now Pseudomogolistes vicentae. This was first described as a new species in 1996 based upon specimens collected in Morocco and Portugal. It appears P. squamiger has a range restricted to the Mediterranean region eastwards.
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 2 of 9 New National Odonata Records Committee:
The last few years have seen the occurrence of several dragonfly species new to Britain in addition to numerous records of unusual, rare migrants. In the past, records of new species were accepted only on the basis of documentation accompanied by a voucher specimen or, more recently, accompanied by photographic evidence, whilst the acceptance of records relating to other rare migrants often involved an ad hoc process that depended a little on whether or not the observer was well known.
With the continued growth of interest in, and the occurrence of, rare migrant dragonflies, such an arrangement has become untenable. A new committee, the Odonata Records Committee (ORC) has therefore been formed to assess records of these species. Resident species, and both red-veined and yellow-winged darters, will not normally fall within the scope of the ORC.
The present composition of the new committee is as follows:
Adrian Parr (Chairman, Suffolk) David Winland (Dorset) Steven Jones (Cornwall) John & Gill Brook (Kent) John Phillips (Gloucestershire)
There is no scheduled time for the committee to meet and records will be considered as an ongoing process. As with the well established procedures for records of rare birds, dragonfly records submitted for consideration should be accompanied by as much supporting evidence as is available, including field sketches and photographs (though these are not a prerequisite for acceptance), to the Chairman of the ORC at the address below. Results of the ORC's decisions, news and announcements will be published in the Journal of the British Dragonfly Society and in Atropos.
Biological Recording & Local Record Centre Update:
The Local Record Centre project is still moving ahead, albeit slowly. As at February 2000 the company to run the LRC has been formed (so far with 2 Directors), the LRC has been named "rECOrd" (note the ECO in the name), and the position of manager of the Centre is just about to be advertised. Watch this space.
The software to support the Local Record Centres across the country "Recorder-2000" is currently in Beta Test and copies of this test CD can be obtained for free from Eva Leck at JNCC in Peterborough. She can be contacted by e-mail on: [email protected] or by telephone at: (01733) 562626.
LCES Web-site:
The LCES now has a web-site available for those who have access to the InterNet. Annual Moth Reports, the LCES Calendar, Ian Rutherford's Wednesday Field-meetings Calendar, and other items are available at the site. To visit please type in the following address (URL): http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/
Suggestions for the development of the web-site, articles for inclusion on the site, and/or suggestions for links to other entomologically based sites, will be gratefully received. Thank you.
Other Web-sites to Visit:
UK Wildlife Group Site (many entomologists) at: http://www.eGroups.com/list/ukwildlife UK Moths at: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/6658/ Cheshire Dragonflies at: http://www.business.u-net.com/~brocross/dfly/dfly.htm Cheshire Wildlife Trust at: http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cheshire/ Nature Photography at: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/place/xcj80/ Arachnology at: http://www.salticus.demon.co.uk/bas/arachnol.html Butterflies for the Millennium at: http://www.nmw.ac.uk/ITE/butterfly/ Moths / LCES at: http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/ BENHS at: http://www.benhs.org.uk/
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 3 of 9 Recorder-2000 at: http://www.nbn.org.uk/projects/rec2000/ Diptera at: http://www2.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/diptera.htm National Biodiversity Network at: http://www.nbn.org.uk/ Recorder-2000 Software at: http://www.nbn.org.uk/projects/
Rare Water Beetle:
The Red Data Book 1 (RDB1) water beetle - Lesser Silver Water Beetle Hydrochara caraboides - was until a couple of years ago only known from a declining population in the Somerset Levels. Since then it has been found in Cheshire. Jonathan Guest's work for the PondLife Project on this species in Cheshire has shown it to be present in at least 14 ponds. English Nature has funded practical management in and around a couple of these, reprofiling and coppicing surrounding shrubs and clearing small areas of emergent vegetation with the hope of favouring this species.
New Scirtidae (Beetle) Recording Scheme:
A recording scheme for both British and Irish Scirtidae is to be run in conjunction with the Aquatic Coleoptera scheme. Please send records and problem specimens for identification to: Professor Garth Foster, 3 Eglinton Terrace, Ayr, Scotland, KA7 1JJ
Woodland Beetle Lists Wanted:
In The Coleopterist 6: 61-66, a new system for assessing the importance of woodland habitats for conservation was proposed. Since then attempts have been made to develop the necessary evaluation index and significant progress has been made. The system now needs testing against a wide range of woodlands and parklands and I would be grateful if coleopterists with beetle lists (either from single visits or from collations of records) from such habitats would kindly send me copies. All info. to:- Adrian Fowles, Countryside Council for Wales, Plas Penrhos, Ffordd Penrhos, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2LQ
UK BIODIVERSITY ACTION PLAN "PRIORITY SPECIES" - A Plea For Information:
The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is the way that the UK government will meet its commitment to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Conservation actions and targets are being set for a number of species and habitats, aimed to conserve, and in a number of cases, restore biodiversity in the UK. In 1995, the first of the "Species Action Plans" were published for species on a "short list" which included 12 species of beetle, most of which now have conservation projects under way. There was also a "middle list" with a further 41 beetle species, for which Species Action Plans would be drawn up by the end of 1998. There have been amendments to this list and there is now a total of 86 beetle species described as "Priority Species". Short list and middle list species will no longer be differentiated.
Species Action Plans for the remainder will be published shortly, excluding those where actions to conserve habitats under parallel "Habitat Action Plans" are thought to be adequate to ensure the species' conservation, and excluding those with no recent records. For these species "Priority Statements" are being prepared which outline the species ecology, status and distribution, and reasons for which they are considered to be of conservation concern, but without the specific actions and targets of the full Species Action Plans.
A complex arrangement of organisations/individuals is being set up to make the plans work. These are:
- "Contact Point" - to oversee the work and are drawn from the statutory agencies - the Countryside Council for Wales, English Nature, Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland), and Scottish Natural Heritage, or other agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Forestry Commission and/or the Environment Agency. - "Lead Partners" - to ensure the work is actually undertaken. - "Species Champions" - to provide resources and publicity.
The actual work to maintain/restore populations will be undertaken by a wide variety of organisations/individuals, including, again, the statutory conservation and other government agencies, non- governmental conservation bodies such as the Wildlife Trusts, PondLife and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and a wide variety of ecologists, naturalists, and entomologists, working both on contract to the various
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 4 of 9 conservation bodies and also on a voluntary basis. Some work is already under way (See the Autumn issue of "The Coleopterist".
The priority beetle species are:
Cicindela germanica L. Hydrochara caraboides (L.) Cicindela hybrida L. Ochthebius poweri Rye Cicindela maritima Latrielle at Dejean Stenus palposus Zett. Cicindela sylvatica L. Lucanus cervus (L.) Carabus intricatus L. Aphodius niger (Panzer) Dyschirius angustatus (Ahrens) Gnorimus nobilis (L.) Bembidion argenteolum Ahrens Curimopsis nigrita (Palm) Bembidion humerale Sturm Anostirus castaneus (L.) Bembidion nigropiceum (Marsham) Limonicus violaceus (Mueller) Tachys edmondsi Moore Synaptus filiformis (F.) Tachys micros (Fischer von Waldheim) Melanotus punctolineatus (Pelerin) Pterostichus aterrimus (Herbst) Gastrallus immarginatus (Mueller) Pterostichus kugelanni (Panzer) Malachius aeneus (L.) Amara famelica Zimmerman Oberea oculata (L.) Amara strenua Zimmerman Donacia aquatica (L.) Harpalus cordatus (Duftschmid) Donacia bicolora Zschach Harpalus obscurus (F.) Cryptocephalus coryli (L.) Harpalus parallelus Dejean Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (L.) Harpalus dimidiatus (Rossi) Cryptocephalus exiguus Schneider Harplaus froelichi Sturm Cryptocephalus nitidulus F. Anisodactylus nemorivagus (Duftschmid) Cryptocephalus primarius Harold Anisodactylus poeciloides (Stephens) Cryptocephalus sexpunctatus (L.) Badister anomalus (Perris) Chrysolina cerealis (L.) Badister peltatus (Panzer) Psylliodes luridipennis Kutschera Dromius quadrisignatus Dejean Psylliodes sophiae Heikertinger Dromius sigma (Rossi) Byctiscus populi (L.) Laccophilus obsoletus Westhoff Melanapion minimum (Herbst) Bidessus minutissimus (Germar) Protapion ryei (Blackburn) Bidessus unistriatus (Schrank) Cathormiocerus britannicus Blair Hydroporus cantabricus Sharp Ceutorhynchus insularis Dieckmann Hydroporus rufifrons (Mueller) Procas granulicollis Walton Agabus brunneus (F.) Pachytychius haematocephalus (Gyllenhal) Graphoderus zonatus (Hoppe) Rhynchaenus testaceus (Mueller) Helophorus laticollis Thomson Ernoporus tiliae (Panzer) Paracymus aeneus (Germar)
The following species are being dealt with together under a single action plan for parkland/wood-pasture species:
Gnorimus variabilis (L.) Megapenthes lugens (Redtenbacher) Lacon quercus (Herbst) Elater ferrugineus L. Ampedus cardinalis (Schioedte) Eucnemis capucina Ahrens Ampedus nigerrimus (Boisduval & Lacordaire) Hypebaeus flavipes (F.) Ampedus rufipennis (Stephens) Dryophthorus corticalis (Paykull) Brachygonus ruficeps (Mulsant & Guillebeau)
The following species are being dealt with together under a single action plan for river shingle species:
Perileptus areolatus (Creutzer) Hydrochus nitidicollis Mulsant Bembidion testaceum (Duftschmid) Thinobius newberyi Scheerpeltz Lionychus quadrillum (Duftschmid) Meotica anglica Benick
The "Conservation News" article in The Coleopterist, Volume 7, Part 3 (December 1998), Pages 99-102 lists projects that are already under way for some of the above species. However, no-one is currently working on most of the remaining species and an impending task is to link possible projects with those who might be interested in working on any of them. Ultimately, we intend that there will be projects, either on single species or groups of species which might be combined either taxonomically, geographically or by habitat, for all of the species listed above. Please get in touch with me, on behalf of the entomologists in each of the Agencies, if you are interested -
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 5 of 9 including those species where there are existing projects if you are familiar with them, or live close to a population of one, or more, of them. We cannot guarantee that there will be a funded project for you to work on, but we hope to build up single and multi-species projects pragmatically, based on available expertise and the whereabouts of interested entomologists.
Meanwhile, we are anxious to collate as much information as we can on all of these species in order to prioritise those species we need to work on most urgently. We would be most grateful for any information you can give us on any of the above species - ecological/behavioural observations, new or old records, or whatever. Please do get in touch.
Roger S. Key, on behalf of: The Inter-agency Invertebrate Working Group, English Nature, Northminster House, Peterborough, Cambs., PE1 1UA - Tel.: 01733 455256 - E-mail: [email protected]
The British Tephritidae (Diptera) Recording Scheme - a request for data:
The British Tephritidae recording scheme was begun in 1983 and to date just under 10,000 records have been incorporated. A provisional atlas was published in 1997 and work is currently under way on an update. Given that there are only some 80 resident British species, most are very attractively patterned, and that all are closely associated with flowering plants, they are an ideal group for study. I therefore invite all readers who would like to participate in the project to contact me. An identification service is provided for those who have, or think they may have, specimens of the family amongst their anonymous ranks of captures. Please send all information, records, etc. to: Laurence Clemons, 14 St.John's Avenue, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4NE
New Keys:
Keys to species are the entomologists 'bread-and-butter' - without them most of our finds would not be identifiable. Here it is hoped to provide information about new keys as they appear in the literature.
- A Key To The British Species of Stelis (Hymenoptera: Apidae): by George Else, published in: British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, Volume 10, Part 4, March 1998 (ISBN 0952-7583), Pages 214-216.
- A Key to the Nymphs of Emblethis (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae): by Steve Judd, published in: British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, Volume 10, Part 4, March 1998 (ISBN 0952-7583), Pages 220-224.
Galls:
For those members recording galls: all gall records past, present and future, would be gratefully received by: Chris Leach - the Hon.Sec of the British Plant Gall Society. He can be contacted via telephone: 0116-257-7713 (daytime), and 0116-271-4297 (evening); or on e-mail at: [email protected]
Cheshire Macro-Moth Report 1999
Steve J. McWilliam - Cheshire County Macro-moth Recorder
As many of you will have noticed there was not a Cheshire Macro-moth report for 1998 other than a short circular letter which I sent out at the end of 1998 in an attempt to stimulate an input of information from the small army of moth trappers and recorders which used to provide data for Ian Rutherford (the previous County Recorder).
1999 has been just as unsuccessful in terms of attracting moth records from this 'army' but has seen the initiation of a few new recorders such as Paul Hill and Adrian Wander who have begun to send in their records via the use of e-mail.
It would appear that following the publication of Ian Rutherford's "Macro-Moths In Cheshire 1961 to 1993" in 1994 many recorders feel that the 'work' with regard to macro-moths has been done, dusted and completed.
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 6 of 9 However, I personally feel that, although Ian's book was an excellent and timely publication there is still much more to do.
Many of the records which Ian accrued were from the back-gardens of moth trappers - nothing wrong with that at all as we need information on how back-gardens are providing habitat and living space for invertebrates as we lose more and more of our countryside. However, there is a need to monitor what is left of our countryside as well and I would like to take this opportunity to encourage moth trappers in Cheshire, Halton, Warrington, Wirral, Hale, Stockport and Tameside (all part of the new modern county of Cheshire as well as many of the parts constituting the old Vice-County of Cheshire) to not only trap in their back gardens but also to take their traps to their friends and relatives gardens and into their local woods, meadows and reedbeds. I know MV traps need a source of electricity but if you haven't got a generator, or access to one, why not knock at the nearest house and ask if you can run from their mains socket. Or, use an actinic trap with a motorcycle or car battery. Many moths are very localised in their habitat usage, particularly reedbed moths, and we need more people across our area to work these sorts of places.
In terms of presentation of information, I am hoping to be able to eventually produce a set of definitive distribution maps in the form of an update to Ian's 1994 volume. In the meantime I will attempt to publish interim distribution maps in both the Society Newsletter and in the Journal to enable people to see the holes (i.e. lack of records) from where they live as an attempt to encourage them to pass their records to me for inclusion in the database. Currently, the database holds 189,447 biological records of which 56,165 are lepidoptera records - BUT, these include micro-moths and butterflies as well as macro-moths. Many more records are needed to gain a fuller picture of the macro-moths in our area as can be seen from the couple of maps printed below.
Consequently, can I please ask ALL those who have moth-trapped/recorded in the past, all those who are trapping and recording now and even those people who only come across the occasional moth in their porches or kitchens, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR RECORDS !! I need all moth records past, present and future. If you have notebooks which you are reluctant to part with I will gratefully accept photocopies; I will even take your notebooks and photocopy them myself and let you have them back by return. Single records are very welcome; by letter, and/or e-mail. I will take telephone records but I much prefer to have them backed up on paper as I can then store the paper records for future reference should any disputes or problems arise.
What data do I/we need: the 'normal' data minimum for all biological records is:
- the name and contact details of the observer/recorder; - the name of the person who identified the moth if different form the recorder; - the name of the moth; - the place it was seen (with a 6-figure O.S. Grid reference if possible - if not give me a ring and we will try and work out a grid reference with you); - the date the observation/record was made (if via a moth-trap the date is the day the moth trap was put out, NOT the day it was collected in (e.g. if the trap was put out at 6:00pm on the evening of Saturday 6th December and brought in at 07:00am on Sunday morning, the date for the record would be the 6th December for whatever year it was).
Extra information, such as numbers, sexes, etc. etc. are always useful and very much appreciated if they can be provided but are not absolutely necessary.
One thing to avoid, if you can, is the stringing together of records. Each observation/capture of a species should be separate; please try to avoid providing records in the format:
Barred Yellow caught 12times 15 August 1999 to 23 September 1999
Although this is useful it provides far less information than separating out the records:
Barred Yellow 4 15/8/99 3 18/8/99 1 05/09/99 etc.
I look forward greatly to receiving your records to begin to fill out the distribution maps and also to enable an annual report about the moths, rather than merely one where I ask for information, to be produced each year.
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 7 of 9 Please help if you can. All moth records (and indeed any other records of plants, insects and other invertebrates, birds and vertebrates are gratefully received), to:
Steve J. McWilliam 4 Priory Close Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 2BN Tel.: 01928 573697 E-mail: [email protected] Web-site: http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/
Distribution Maps:
The maps below show the current distributions of Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor), Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata), Large Yellow-Underwing (Noctua pronuba) and the Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) from the data currently held on the database. These are very common moths and were chosen to show the existing gaps in the coverage of the County. The map shows the outline of the Vice- County of Cheshire (VC-58) though some of the dots are just over the River Mersey (on the north side) and come from the Modern Cheshire County which includes Hale, Widnes, and north Warrington.
Deilephila elpenor Xanthorhoe montanata
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Agrotis exclamationis Noctua pronuba
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Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES) Newsletter No.: 33 - Spring 2000 Page: 8 of 9 As can be seen, there is plenty of scope for your additional records to make an impact on our knowledge of even the commonest species of macro-moth in our area.
Steve. J. McWilliam, December 1999
Event Calendar for LCES Session 124 - Year 2000
Unless otherwise stated all indoor meetings are to be held at Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane, Frodsham, Cheshire - starting at 7:30pm.
Indoor Meetings:
Tue 18 Jan 2000 President's Address and Short Papers
Tue 15 Feb 2000 AGM - followed by a discussion meeting
Sat 18 Mar 2000 Exhibition Meeting at Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane - 13:30 (Afternoon)
Tue 21 Mar 2000 Talk/Demonstration by Chris Shields - wildlife artist & illustrator
Tue 18 Apr 2000 Butterflies of Cheshire - by: Barry Shaw
Outdoor Meetings:
Daytime meetings start at 11:00am - usually to be followed by a night-time moth trapping session.
Sat 24 Jun 2000 Bickerton Hill (SJ509535) - Contact: Carl Clee (0151 200 7040)
Sat 22 Jul 2000 Haystack Lodge, Runcorn (SJ545828) - Contact: Julia Hancell (01928 573697)
Sat 12 Aug 2000 Moth Trapping Event at Formby Point with Lancashire Moth Group and the BENHS
Sat 23 Sep 2000 Risley Moss - Daytime and Moth Trapping Session - National Moth Night (SJ6689922) Contact: Steve McWilliam (01928 573697)
Indoor Meetings:
Tue 17 Oct 2000 Review of the Year 2000 Season
Tue 21 Nov 2000 Members Slides Meeting
Tue 19 Dec 2000 Members Videos and Xmas Social Evening
Future Entries For This Newsletter:
Future articles and news for this publication can be sent by e-mail to: [email protected]
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