I have been asked to pass on details of the following dates by the
Cornwall Butterfly Conservation and Cornwall Moth Group, for more
information please visit their relevant web sites.*


*
*Cornwall Butterfly Conservation **Conservation Days*

*Tuesday 10th February 2009*
*Saturday 21st February 2009*
*Saturday 7th March 2009*

10am - 3pm

Cornwall Butterfly Conservation are holding a Conservation Days all at
West Goss Moor, Nr Indian Queens. Along the course of the old railway
clearing scrub for the Grizzled Skipper. We will be cutting wood and
brambles so please bring gardening gloves and/or gardening forks if
possible as some tools will be provided. Pasties will be provided. Meet
at Grid ref. SW 932599 (Lay-by on Moorland Road (the old A30) near the
Screech Owl Sanctuary).

Leader: Paul Browning.
Contact number: 01736763677
http://www.cornwall-butterfly-conservation.org.uk/events.php
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*The Cornwall Moth Group announce:*

'Moth Count' & The National Moth Recording Scheme (NMRS) with an
Introduction to ERCCIS held at Allet, Near Truro on the
*7th March 2009*

Programme:

11.00-12.00 Early Arrivals & Informal / Displays (bring along anything
you would like to show)
12.00-13.00 Lunch (bring your own) and Later Arrivals
13.00-14.00 (Max) Formal Welcome & CMG 2008 Data Review / Progress
14.00-14.45 Round-Table CMG Discussion "GM"
14.45-15.00 Break / Informal
15.00-16.00 Introduction to ERCCIS & Discussion
16.00-17.00 Introduction to Moth Count & the NMRS - Zoë Randle
(Butterfly Conservation's Moth Recording Coordinator)
17.00 Formal Meeting Closure
17.10-18.00 Break / Departure for those finishing
18.00-....... Light Trapping at Allet (weather permitting)
Do come along and fit in with the afternoon's arrangements, as you are able.

http://www.cornwallmothgroup.org.uk/events.php
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*National Moth Night 2009*

A date has now been fixed for the next National Moth Night, the annual
celebration of moths and moth recording run by Atropos and Butterfly
Conservation. NMN09, the eleventh such event, will take place on the
nights of *Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2009*. Two nights are
included because of the eccentricities of the weather at that time of
year. However, it also provides even more of an excuse to go mothing in
new and exciting places. The theme of NMN09 will be migration and there
will not be any specific target species or habitats. More details about
the migration theme will be circulated nearer the time, but please make
a note of the dates in your diary now.

http://www.nationalmothnight.info/

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