Submitted by k.brown on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 12:12
Conserving the Bilberry Bumblebee
By Jen Jones
The Bilberry bumblebee project, which has been led by the National Trust, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and volunteers in Shropshire aimed to assess and conserve this declining bumblebee on the Long Mynd using citizen scientists. Jen Jones gives us her insights into the aims and achievements of the research.
Submitted by AaronBhambra on Tue, 29/06/2021 - 09:37
A new online training course from BioLinks
By Aaron Bhambra
Last month marked the end of the first run of the FSC ‘Discovering bees online’ course, part of the lottery funded Biolinks project, aiming to promote and inspire the study of often neglected invertebrate groups. We speak to the course tutor, Aaron Bhambra and see how it went.
Submitted by k.brown on Wed, 23/06/2021 - 10:06
Studying earthworms in the virtual world
by Keiron derek Brown
Keiron recently-co-developed the Discovering Earthworms online training course. In this blog he gives us a taster of what our learners covered and reports the results from the participant field assignments.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/06/2021 - 14:15
Bringing marine education to EcoSkills
by Bek Trehern
Marine biology is Bek's passion and in this blog she tells us about her journey in marine science education and how she's bringing marine biology learning opportunties to the Eco-Skills training portfolio and Natural History Live webinar programme.
Submitted by D.Asaw on Wed, 09/06/2021 - 13:00
An overview
by Dan Asaw
Last month marked the end of the first run of the FSC ‘Discovering beetles online’ course, part of the lottery funded Biolinks project, aiming to promote and inspire the study of often neglected invertebrate groups. We speak to the course tutor, Dan Asaw and see how it went.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 25/05/2021 - 10:39
Have you seen these helpful slugs?
by Imogen Cavadino
Slugs – most gardens have them, but somehow these slippery creatures are often under recorded, with little known about which species are where in Britain. In fact, it was not until 2011 that we realised just how many species are established in Britain, when a detailed study of the fauna revealed 22% more species were present in Britain than we thought!
Submitted by AaronBhambra on Wed, 28/04/2021 - 11:00
The City Nature Challenge
by Victoria Burton and Benjamin Town
Take a closer look at nature by joining cities around the world to find and identify wildlife on your doorstep between 30th of April and the 3rd of May. People in over 400 cities worldwide, including 13 others in the UK, will be finding, and recording wildlife over a four-day period.
Submitted by AaronBhambra on Fri, 23/04/2021 - 08:31
A Guide for Grasses
by Hilary Wallace
This ground-breaking new AIDGAP Guide to Identifying Grasses using Vegetative Characters covers the 90 most common species found in the UK. Contrary to most keys to grasses, it does not require examination of the flower heads, so it will help habitat surveyors carry out fieldwork for much more of year.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 22/04/2021 - 11:17
Polling the Pollinators
by Martin Harvey
Could you sit in the sunshine, in front of a patch of flowers, and spend ten minutes watching and counting all the insects that land on just one of the flower species in that patch? If so you could make a valuable contribution to monitoring pollinating insects...
Submitted by D.Asaw on Mon, 19/04/2021 - 15:28
Roadside science
by Sarah Raymond
Sarah discusses the importance of monitoring and recording wildlife road casulties to help understand the status of UK's wildlife.
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