Hello again! Time for another update from the brownfield site apprentice
So... what have I been up to? Well, over the winter I have been doing my invertebrate id and writing up information into reports and a paper. So ...
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Archives for March 2011
Taxing taxonomy
Hello all!
Well it's been a learned couple of months for me; one seems to be cramming as much taxonomy skills into my little head as possible! I worry there must be a capacity limit to these things and where new knowledge is ...
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Love on the Moss
Ahhh... sigh... I have a new love in my life, and its name is "Flanders Moss". The Moss is an 860 hectare site, about 15km west of Stirling. Flanders Moss is a National Nature Reserve (NNR) and also has SSSI and SAC status, ...
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Hayley’s Pinewood Patch!
Hello there! I'm Hayley and I'm the Caledonian Pinewood Invertebrates apprentice. I'm going to be based with the pinewood research team at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (soon to be the James Hutton Institute) in ...
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New species for Scotland!!
Well at least a new record! These little brown fungi seem sometimes to escape recording. Who knows how long its been around defying those who dare to collect and record it!
I've spent a lot of time this month identifying ...
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