One of the benefits of my MSc at the Natural History Museum was the opportunity to volunteer on fieldwork for Museum projects, such as my previous post on my trip to Scotland with the Museum Dipterists. This week I was in East Riding, Yorkshire, helping with fieldwork for the Soil Biodiversity Group on a big …
Category: Fieldwork
A weekend of hoverflies
This weekend I was at the Field Studies Centre at Preston Montford in Shropshire to learn about hoverflies. This is the penultimate course in my University Certificate in Biological Recording and Species Identification run by Manchester Metropolitan University. The course is run by Roger Morris and Stuart Ball of the Hoverfly Recording Scheme and I had previously …
Victoria J. Burton 