Successfully dodging the drunken wasps feasting on over-ripe plums I've completed my summer field work. I've had a fascinating time surveying a total of 8 Orchards in the Clyde Valley. All that remains now is to identify ...
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Archives for September 2009
When batteries attack!
Ok so the weather is beating us a little bit over here so it gives me a good chance to sit and write another update with the added bonus of having a cup of tea and a warm lunch!
A couple weeks ago I helped build the stacks ...
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Square-bashing
Returning from my holiday in the Cairngorms (where I took the opportunity to study a few snowbed communities) I was then whisked away by fellow bryologists to Aberdeen. This was our base for a few days of square-bashing where ...
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The Flight of the Hoverfly
She waits. Rigid from the frosty chill a gravid female Marmalade Hoverfly stirs from her winters' slumber with the first warming rays of spring sunshine. Our sleeping beauty makes her first foray to find a nectar breakfast ...
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Forsinard Peatlands NNR
Hello!!
Hope you are all well..It's Iain here: the peatlands management apprentice up at Forsinard NNR.. this is my first posting here after 5 months up here! So I think it will be quite a struggle to pack in absolutely ...
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