“World Earthworm Day” in mid October, and I fittingly found myself on an earthworm i.d. weekend in Darwin’s garden in Shrewsbury. Run by Kieron Brown (the new BioLinks project lead), and supported by Sara Lanyon (Biodiversity ...
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Remember, remember…November at Buglife
Days may be getting shorter and nights colder but November is a perfect time to go snail hunting. This month I have more surveys lined up plus I’ve been doing the rounds to a few universities chatting about TCV, Buglife and ...
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October Moth-fest
October has been a busy and varied month for sure. With longer and darker nights coming in and the temperatures dropping, the moth are disappearing too although there were still a few exciting things to be found!
The month ...
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October Updates from Buglife
October was the month of the people – I worked with so many different community groups, school kids, and my fellow TCV trainees at our annual meet up at TCV’s Skelton Grange. There seems to be a lot coming together for the ...
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The month of October
I spent a good chunk of time at the beginning of the month, working through samples from Pentwyn, separating specimens into different piles of ‘hoppers’, ‘Heteroptera’ and ‘everything else’. The bags in the freezer are slowly ...
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