This event is part of South Devon National Landscape’s Life on the Edge project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Join the Life on the Edge team and Buglife’s Professor Karim Vahed for a brief whistle stop tour of the South Wests Orthoptera (crickets, bush-crickets and grasshoppers). This include two of the Life on the Edge project target species.
Workshop 1: The online will provide an introduction to Orthoptera and will cover their habitat, habits , and how to identify them. The webinar will also cover several apps that volunteers can use to help them identify and record their sightings.
Open to returning volunteers and absolute beginners. Find out more about workshop 2 here.
To book a free place, email [email protected].
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Life on the Edge is an exciting Buglife partnership project that aims to restore viable populations of some of the UK’s rarest invertebrates and plants living along the South Devon coast between Berry Head and Wembury, including the last known colony of the Six-banded Nomad Bee (Nomada sexfasciata).
Main Image Credit: Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) Branscombe, Devon © Karim Vahed
