Blattodea Culture Group meeting this Sunday (1st October 2006)

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Posted by George Beccaloni on 9/26/2006, 7:00 pm

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A reminder:

All BCG members and potential BCG members welcome!!

Invitation to the Second European Meeting of the

Blattodea Culture Group (B.C.G.)

Sunday 1st October 2006, 10.30am

in the

Dorothea Bate Room, The Natural History Museum, London

We would like to invite you to attend the second meeting of the BCG. Please arrive at the museum after 10 AM and enter via the main Cromwell Road entrance. For directions to the Dorothea Bate Room ask at the reception desk to the left as you come into the museum. There is a bell outside the room which you should ring and someone will let you in. If you have any problems finding the rooom then please phone Judith Marshall on 020 7942 5610.

Agenda

10.30am - 12.00am INFORMAL GATHERING

12.00am - 1.30pm Talks (20 minutes each) as follows:-

Ian ABERCROMBIE (Ashford, UK)

Keeping and rearing Archiblatta hoevenii from Malaysia

Darren MANN (Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK)

Cockroaches in Borneo

Ingo FRITZSCHE (Max-Planck-Institut, Germany)

Observations on cockroaches in Central Amazonia.

George BECCALONI (The Natural History Museum, London, UK)

The Blattodea Species File: An online catalogue of world cockroaches.

1.30pm - 2.30pm LUNCH (bring packed lunch or buy locally)

2.30pm - 3.00pm LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE (please bring your surplus livestock packaged to give away)

3.00 - 4.30pm FURTHER INFORMAL GATHERING/BCG COMMITTEE MEETING

g,beccaloni@nhm.ac.uk