Get Involved to help Cannock Chase Invertebrates

There are a whole range of ways you can contribute to our records of insects and invertebrates, in Cannock Chase.   Many of which are Citizen Science Projects, or you may like to help with longer-term surveys and become a Bee Walker or help with Butterfly Transects.

• Nature Overheard  (spring-Autumn)  Nature Overheard survey | Natural History Museum 

(A groundbreaking study of how noise pollution affects insects).

• Natures Calendar- Woodland Trust – insects (spring) Insects – Nature’s Calendar (When do you spot the first insects )?
• Bee Walk –  March- October   Bumblebee surveying and monitoring – Bumblebee Conservation Trust 

(Train to  set up/ or help with an existing Bee Walk)

• Butterfly transect (survey methods and when) – details via the rangers/ butterfly conservation .  NB – add in and link to post of planting March Violets in November.  

• Fit Count – Monitor Pollinators – April – September   FIT Counts: help us monitor pollinators | PoMS 

• Dragonfly Watch DragonflyWatch – recording introduction – British Dragonfly Society 

(May- Sept) 

• Big Butterfly Count  – July – August (Butterfly Conservation)   Big Butterfly Count 

•  Join and contribute to records in inaturalist Cannock Chase