BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
PRODID:Amateur Entomologists' Society Events listings
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20171101T123000-924@amentsoc.org
SUMMARY:Royal Entomological Society Orthoptera Special Interest Group 2018 meeting
LOCATION:Neil Chalmers Room, Natural History Museum, Kensington, London, UK.
DESCRIPTION: This year's day of talks on grasshoppers & related species will be held on Wednesday 1st November 2017, 12:30 - 5:30pm, in the London Natural History Museum, followed by drinks and a cold buffet. All are very welcome. Please register to attend. Programme * 12:30 - Arrival and tea; posters & displays * 1:00 - Welcome * 1:10 - Darron Cullen (University of Leuven, Belgium): The role of yellow colouration in locust mating behaviour * 1:35 - Julie Sarmiento-Ponce (University of Cambridge): Does age matter in female crickets when finding a mate? * 1:50 - Aqib Ali (presenting), D. Gee, M. Bulling & K. Vahed (University of Derby): Does relative weapon size affect fighting success in the field cricket Platygryllus primiformis? * 2:10 - Karim Vahed (University of Derby): Scaly crickets Pseudomogoplistes vicentae are in the running for the Wellcome Sanger Institute's 25 genomes project * 2:15 - Break * 2:35 - Fernando Montealegre-Z (University of Lincoln): From fossils to physical reality: Transformation of acoustic organs in crickets and bush-crickets * 3:00 - Adam Bent (Anglia Ruskin University): Mate location under conditions of anthropogenic noise: What are the fitness consequences? * 3:20 - Simon Springate (Natural Resources Institute): Thermal Biology of UK Orthoptera or: How I got distracted by less important things for 12 years. Part 1. * 83:40 - Tim Gardiner: Grasshopper stories for children (The Voyage of the Queen Bee, Geronimo the Grasshopper) * 83:50 - Luc Willemse (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands): ObsIdentify - a new app for automated species recognition in the field * 83:55 - Break * 84:15 - Martin Harvey and Paul Brock (Natural History Museum London): A re-survey of New Forest populations of the Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum * 84:40 - Jacqui Smith (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds): Habitat requirements of the Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum * 84:55 - Megan Shersby (Naturalist and writer): Bringing Orthoptera to the British Birdwatching Fair * 85:05 - David Browne (Wildlife photographer): How to photograph grasshoppers and crickets * 85:25 - Drinks, followed by supper * 8:00 - Finish
DTSTART:20171101T123000
DTEND:20171101T173000
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR