Submitted by rich burkmar on Fri, 13/03/2015 - 10:00
According to someone, somewhere, Saturday 14th March is 'Save a Spider Day'! A quick search on Google indicates that for others it is 'Non-smoking Day' and I dare say, if I looked hard enough, I could quickly fill my diary for tomorrow, what with avoiding cigarettes, saving spiders and everything else!
Submitted by Charlie Bell on Tue, 10/03/2015 - 09:51
Last week Tom.bio took a trip to visit the Entomology department at Liverpool’s World Museum. The trip, initiated by the FSC’s Invertebrate Challenge Project three years ago, has become something of an annual event. It’s a chance for local entomologists, including members of the Shropshire Spider Group and the Shropshire Entomology Group, to examine some of the museum’s impressive invertebrate collections.
Submitted by Simon Norman on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 11:00
FSC Publications have been working with Clare Strode and Thom Dallimore at Edge Hill University to develop a new AIDGAP guide to the mosquitoes of Great Britain and Ireland. This will be ready for AIDGAP testing from spring 2015.
Submitted by Charlie Bell on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 10:09

Last Friday I found myself crouched over a plastic sheet in the middle of a National Nature Reserve, squinting at Sphagnum. I’d joined an enthusiastic team of local spider experts, volunteers and Natural England staff at Fenn’s, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses, a NNR spanning the English and Welsh border. Our mission: to search for the nationally rare spider species Glyphesis cottonae.
D3 is shorthand for 'Data Driven Documents' - an extremely flexible and powerful toolset for visualising data on the web developed by Mike Bostock. Here I outline why D3 is of interest to Tomorrow's Biodiversity.
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