I started species identification of earthworms after attending a course in 2013 which proved very useful when I went on to sample earthworms and other soil animals during my MSc project. After my masters I continued identifying earthworms as a volunteer for the Natural History Museum Soil Biodiversity Group as well as for 'fun' collecting species …
Category: Earthworms
Throwback Thursday – More earthworm bothering (November 2013)
Over one year into my PhD now, and I had been hoping to blog a little reflection on this but things have been rather hectic! Instead here is a look back to some more earthworm fieldwork I volunteered on in November 2013, digging holes in Somerset and Berkshire. For eight days in November I …
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Throwback Thursday – Earthworm bothering in Yorkshire (October 2013)
This week's Throwback Thursday comes from my first week volunteering on what ended up being five weeks of fieldwork on the NERC funded BESS project on earthworms in pasture. It was cold, wet and muddy week in Yorkshire, I ruined a camera and a pair of waterproof trousers, but I did get to visit the ecologically …
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Victoria J. Burton 