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Over the past couple of months, I’ve attended two thought provoking conferences. While I love my traineeship it’s easy to get bogged down in my daily tasks, working through samples and learning to identify my specialist group (leafhoppers and planthoppers) without considering the bigger picture. These conferences with fantastic speakers and interesting people have made […]
Continue reading The Bigger Picture

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In June I decided to expand my horizons a little and plants seemed like the obvious first step in my voyage out of the water: I had been based in a museum botany department for five months at this point and was beginning to see the irony that I still knew next to nothing about […]
Continue reading Branching Out

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I’ve had a busy time over the last couple of months, and not a lot of time spent in the office- so I for one am appreciating all the dry sunny weather! At the start of May I attended a recording workshop run by my Butterfly Conservation colleague Anthony McCluskey at Pitencrief Park in Dunfermline. […]
Continue reading Not Just Moths...

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How on earth is it the end of June already?! It’s been another busy month for me at FSC head office and it’s gone by in a flash. Summer is finally here so I’ve been getting out and about all over the place. As I mentioned in my last post, I went off to Dale […]
Continue reading Where did June go?

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  Hello again! Another busy month has flown by. The article I wrote for New Nature magazine has been published in this month’s edition; now FREE to download on their website! I urge you to go and check it out, not just because I’ve got an article in there but because it really is an excellent […]
Continue reading Here, there and everywhere... June update from Buglife!

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With the passing of April, it was finally time for last year’s trainees to leave us and go off on new adventures! Wishing you all the best of luck on the next stage of your journeys, guys. Now it’s our turn to take the reigns, which is a bit scary – not gonna lie – […]
Continue reading Having a "snail" of a time...

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I don’t mean to brag but I’ve had a really great month and thought I should tell you all about it.  I’ve barely been in the office and I’ve been off on a bit of a jolly most of the time. I haven’t been on holiday, I’ve just been lucky enough to be sent to […]
Continue reading Jolly Holly-days

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Since my last blog post it’s starting to feel that spring has finally arrived! Hopefully this means that from now on there will be a few more moths flying. Over the last few weeks, while awaiting the warmer days, I’ve been continuing to look out for feeding signs and larva. A great way to search […]
Continue reading Little holes and hollows.

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      I am the proud owner of a badge that says ‘Ruth – Volunteer Leader’. I wear this every Wednesday – when lectures don’t get in the way – and spend that day in the woods and grounds of TCV Skelton Grange. My Role It’s a fairly awesome day, to be honest. I […]
Continue reading Volunteering with TCV Skelton Grange...

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I spent last week on the Marine Biological Sampling course at FSC Millport. One of my objectives this year is to develop a specialism in polychaete identification and this trip was a great opportunity to collect some worms from a number of different habitats and sampling methods. For example, we found a sea mouse (Aphrodita […]
Continue reading Marine Worms in Millport

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