BTS Lectures and Dinner –
8th March 2025
Special Guest Lecturers: Dr Brent E. Hendrixon & Chris A. Hamilton
Title: New tarantula species from the Madrean Sky Island (TBC)
Bio: TBC
Guest Speaker: Jean-Michel Verdez
Title: Orphnaecus sp. in situ in the Philippines
Bio: Jen Micheal is a living legend in the tarantula hobby he has bred pretty much every species common in the hobby today and with some of his ground breaking ideas the hobby would be less for all of us.
Guest Speaker: Amy Freeman
Title: The Island of Bliss and its Blue Baboon tarantula:
Bio: Amy has been passionately keeping tarantulas for 2 decades. Amongst her collection resides the Monocentropus balfouri for which she has been researching and collecting various keeper experiences for a number of years paying special interest to keeping the species in a communal setting. At her lecture she will be delivering an abundance of information not only on the species itself but also on the island of bliss ‘Socotra’
Guest Speaker: Tim Baxter
Title: Scorpions in the Hobby (TBC)
Bio:Tim is one of if not the leading scorpion keeper in the UK. He has just recently joined the BTS committee as our scorpion representative.
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Guest Speaker: Rachel Kruft Welton
Title: Fossil Spiders (TBC)
Rachel’s career has as many branches as a spider has legs. She started with a degree in Zoology, moving on to Biodiversity, Systematics and Conservation. She spent a lot of her PhD identifying spiders from the Norfolk Broads. The next decade was spent teaching science in secondary schools, before launching her own tutoring business. Meanwhile she has published a book on R, and completed a second masters, this time in Palaeobiology. She spends one day a week at the Lapworth Museum in Birmingham and is currently affiliated with the University of Bristol.
Summary: TBC
All the information on the 2025 line up will appear here when we have the information.
