Sorry you haven’t heard from me for a while. I haven’t been hibernating all winter but I have been hidden away in a lab with my eyes glued to a microscope! I’ve been working through lots of samples taken from Racomitrium ...
Continue reading Natural Talent goes international in pursuit of mites!
Cheerio folks!
Only one day to go and my Caledonian Pinewood Apprenticeship will be over! It’s been an amazing twelve months at the pinewood patch and I’ve loved every minute of it, I can’t believe how quickly it’s flown by. It’s been like ...
Continue reading Cheerio folks!
Ants in Devon and wacky spiders
It’s been a while since my last blog in November about the Wood Ant Symposium, but that’s not to say that I haven’t been busy! I’ve been working my way through thousands of pickled insects, as well as making databases, giving ...
Continue reading Ants in Devon and wacky spiders
Wood Ant Symposium!!!
On the 18th and 19th of October 2011 researchers, forestry workers, conservationists and ant experts gathered at The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen for the Wood Ant Symposium; an event aimed at raising the profile of wood ...
Continue reading Wood Ant Symposium!!!
Anting around at Abernethy
Marching along transects across heathland, fighting off ticks, keds and midges, whilst trying to find strange little grassy mounds that might only be as large as your fist...welcome to my survey for narrow-headed ants on ...
Continue reading Anting around at Abernethy