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Butterfly and dragonfly transects

April 2, 2013arthropods

Running a butterfly and dragonfly transect is a rewarding pastime! The methods are very straightforward. You simply mark out a route in advance – in our case around the edge of the survey box, from post to post, and along the edge of the road adjacent to the plot, again…

Ant raft

November 28, 2012arthropods

There’s been quite a lot of flooding in the plantations over the last week, so some of our survey work has involved splashing through pools of water and wading our way across former paths! The flooding does have some advantages though. For a start there are even more dragonflies than…