What do pinewood ecologists at The James Hutton Institute do for kicks? They take 200 Scots pine saplings, measure their every detail to within an inch of their lives and then drive them 60 miles away to live at Ballochbuie ...
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Celebrating Nature Event, Aviemore 21st May
The Natural Talent team just can't resist the opportunity to show the public how crazy we are about invertebrates! This time the Natural Talent mystery machine travelled to Aviemore in the Cairngorms to take part in the ...
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The Wonder of Wood Ants
Greetings from the Pinewood Patch! I thought it makes sense to have a blog devoted to wood ants as I'm going to be talking about them quite a bit in my blogs so some background info will help you understand my ...
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Spring is finally here!
Well the wood ants are out, the spring usher moths are flapping away and the grouse are dancing. Very exciting times. It's been a busy few weeks at Corrimony, we've had a lot more thinning to do in the pine forest to get it ...
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Roll on the warm weather!!
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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