Hi everyone, back again with the first of two updates.
As you already know this year I am undertaking a pollinator study of Portstewart Strand focusing on bees, butterflies, hoverflies and day flying moths, so I have ...
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Archives for July 2015
Seeing the wood AND the trees
June has very much been about trees. I wanted to understand the processes of tree ageing better because saproxylic insect diversity is much greater in old growth trees. As a result, a one day course on recording notable old ...
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Curious Collectors
I can't help but feel that they’re playing tricks on me at the museum. I’m the subject of some form of scientific ribbing, an elaborate joke – are diatoms even real? It’s all starting to feel a bit surreal - I do most of my ...
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