Hertfordshire & Middlesex Branch

Winter Zoom Programme - 2025 - 2026
(see separate link for Brown Hairstreak Egg Surveys)

We invite all our Butterfly Conservation members as well as members of the public to join us at our Branch Winter Zoom Presentations - all our branch presentations are free.

Additional Winter Zoom presentations are organised by Butterfly Conservation Surrey & SW London Branch - these do require advance booking

All our branch Zoom meetings will start at 7.30pm and will last for no more than 90 minutes, including Q&A. If you already have Zoom installed, then simply click on the meeting link provided in order to join. (Instructions on how to obtain Zoom are provided below the list of presentations.)

A link to the Brown Hairstreak egg surveys for 2026 will be available when published

Last updated 28 September 2025

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Date:	Wednesday 3rd DECEMBER 2025
Presentation Title & Speaker:	'Saving our Insects' - A talk - and a call to action - by Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex Insects are vital, fascinating, weird and wonderful. They are food, pollinators, recyclers, pest controllers, and much more, so we should be deeply concerned that they are in rapid decline. Dave Goulson will explain the many causes of insect decline, and then turn to the solutions of this crisis. These include fundamentally changing the way we grow food, by rewilding some areas, and by turning our gardens and urban greenspaces into oases for life.
Time:	19:30 to 20:30
Information	This is a special joint presentation arranged by the Herts & Middx and Surrey & SW London Branches and will required advance booking through Eventbrite (see below). About Dave Goulson Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, specializing in bee ecology. He has published more than 350 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects, plus seven books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers A Sting in the Tale (2013), The Garden Jungle (2019), and Silent Earth (2021). Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, a charity which has grown to 12,000 members. In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. For each of the last 8 years he was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thompson ISI. He is an “Ambassador” for the UK Wildlife Trusts.
Essential booking details:	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saving-our-insects-tickets-1709594415919

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New to Zoom?
If you have not used Zoom before, then it needs to be installed on your device prior to the meeting, in order for the meeting link provided below to work. Zoom can be downloaded free from https://zoom.us/support/download. Once it is installed, you can join a meeting simply by clicking on the link provided for that meeting. If you require further details, then full instructions on how to join the meetings are available on the Branch website at: Joining Winter Zoom Presentations

Can’t make the date?
All our talks will be recorded and posted on the Herts & Middlesex Butterfly Conservation YouTube channel within 2-3 days of the event. You can watch previous year’s talks and other fascinating videos now. You can subscribe to the Channel for free to learn when new videos are posted - Branch YouTube channel