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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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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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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Hello all! Well it's been a learned couple of months for me; one seems to be cramming as much taxonomy skills into my little head as possible! I worry there must be a capacity limit to these things and where new knowledge is ...
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Ahhh... sigh... I have a new love in my life, and its name is "Flanders Moss". The Moss is an 860 hectare site, about 15km west of Stirling. Flanders Moss is a National Nature Reserve (NNR) and also has SSSI and SAC status, ...
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