App/Blog/website of the week

(also from Becks Spake, thank you! As it’s that time of year, this mushroom ID app might come in handy for those who are visiting the New Forest: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rogers-mushrooms-lite/id370634260?mt=8  

Conkers under threat – send in your pictures of leaves of trees invested by a destructive caterpillar http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34645541 Record your findings using this app = Leaf Watch http://naturelocator.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/  

Mark my bird https://www.markmybird.org/ get involved with a citizen science project looking at bird bill shape  

Regional migration forecast http://birdcast.info/forecast/regional-migration-forecast-2-9-october-2015/  

Peerwise – use it to make your own multiple choice exams, which you can share with your peers https://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ –  

Tapir – 27th April is World Tapir Day http://www.tapirday.org/ and today is world robber fly day https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/hornet-robberfly

http://www.scienceifl.com/animalsandinsects/index.htm

Society of Biology – you can join for just £15 and then sign-up for lots of interesting events, such as this one https://www.societyofbiology.org/events/event_writingforanonspecialistaudience

Act for Nature (show your support!) http://action.wildlifetrusts.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1823&ea.campaign.id=32896  

I would like to encourage you all to join Twitter because there is a lot of interesting things out there. Yesterday my feed was full of #DarwinDay