Bugfest 5

A shout-out to you UK types living in the South-West, the next BugFestSW is on the 20th February. For more details check out the BugFest website.

AES Annual Exhibition

The Amateur Entomologist's Society Annual Exhibition will be held on the 17th October at Kempton Park Racecourse. There are more details here. This is a great event, with lots of livestock, specimens and books for sale. There will be representatives of the Blattodea Culture Group and Phasmid Study Group (I guess I'll be hanging around there for a while if you want to catch me).

New York Cricket Crawl

This sounds like a pretty neat event. On the 11th September (or 12th if the 11th is called off due to rain) from 19:45 you can go out and listen to the 7 orthopterans found within New York City.

For more details go here or contact cricket_crawl@yahoo.com. There is also a Facebook group.

Abbey Hill Steam Rally

BugFest organiser Nick Wadham and the Phasmid Study Group's Cameron Die Köinign at the Abbey Hill Steam Rally.

Blattodea Culture Group

This weekend saw the return of the Blattodea Culture Group to London, with a well attended meeting at the Natural History Museum.

There were four talks/presentations:

Collecting cockroaches in Madagascar (by George Beccaloni)
A film clip of Adrian Durkin's recent appearance on BBC1
An introduction to the new BCG website (by me)
Collecting cockroaches in Borneo (by Phil Bragg)

There was also a livestock exchange, with a number of interesting species changing hands.