Tutor – Alan Lazenby.

Weevils, the second largest beetle group after the Rove Beetles with over 650 species. Your chance to identify some of them using keys and identification guides. There will be plenty of reference specimens. Please bring along any specimens you may have. Beginners and improvers all welcome. 11am to around 4pm.

Tea and coffee and biscuits will be freely available but bring along a packed lunch or eat at the local café or pub.

This workshop is another Sorby Invertebrate Group joint event with the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership. BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL AND IS FREE. Book your place with Roseanna Burton via email to the following address:

Information about joining the Sorby Natural History Society can be found at www.sorby.org.uk/membership.

Venue: Elsecar Heritage Centre.

Time: 11am until about 4pm.

Tutor: Derek Whiteley (Sorby Mammal Group).

We will be getting to grips with the identification of small mammal bones found in owl pellets using hand lenses and microscopes. The workshop is aimed at ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS but there will be opportunities to do more advanced stuff too. Mice, voles, shrews, mole, hedgehog, bats, mustelids, rabbits and hares will be covered plus other bits in owl pellets. We will have a go at sexing mammals from their pelvic bones. Lots of hands-on practical stuff.

This event is indoors. Tea, coffee and biscuits freely available but bring a packed lunch. This workshop is another joint event with the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership.

THE WORKSHOP IS FREE, BUT BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL.

Book your place with Roseanna Burton using DVLP@barnsley.gov.uk or via Derek Whiteley if you don’t have e-mail.