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 2: Field visit to Wembury and chance to develop Orthoptera ID skills! During the session we hope to find as many different species of Orthoptera as we can identify – fingers crossed for some late Grey Bush-crickets (Platycleis albopunctata) and Great Green Bush-crickets (Tettigonia viridissima). We will also be find out more about managing habitat for the conservation of Orthoptera.
Open to returning volunteers and absolute beginners. Find out more about workshop 1 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: Grey Bush Cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) Branscombe, Devon © Karim Vahed
