Hello again! I am now three months into my saline lagoons traineeship with The Conservation Volunteers and National Museums Scotland. With the arrival of spring and (slightly) better weather, the past two months have seen me ...
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Lovely Levels, aquatic snails, amazing parasites and more…
Hello from sunny wales!
It’s been a busy and eventful couple of months full of snails, with things hotting up for the summer season. Here is your latest Mollusc update from National Museum Wales, Cardiff...
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March: Month of planning and collections!
Hi folks! Looks like March continues the trend of me visiting museums as I get the chance to visit Manchester University's museum to learn to catalogue solitary bee specimens from the collections.
We were looking ...
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Spring has Sprung!
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick update from me. It finally feels like spring is here and the start of my season of surveying has begun. The focus of my traineeship is entomology as a whole, however looking at dead wood ...
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Invasives’ Irradiator…in training
Hello, my name is Eleanor and I’m the TCV Natural Talent Invasive Non-Native Species Trainee, based at the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR) in Northern Ireland. As this is my first blog, I thought I’d ...
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