Several courses that you may be interested in:
Gilbert White’s house – Create an entomology collection, Saturday 28th January, 10am-4pm, £40 – book here http://www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/event/create-entomology-collection/
Hampshire Cultural Trust – insect identification courses, all at Chilcomb house (apart from Dragonflies). If you are interested in more details and would like a booking form, please let me know by replying to this email:
22nd April, 10am-4pm – Bumblebee identification – £25
6th May, 10am-4pm – Hoverfly identification – £25
3rd June, 9:30am-12:30pm, also on at 1:30pm-4:30pm – Insect preparation techniques – £15
17th June, 10am-4pm – Dragonfly identification (Old Bath House, Leckford) – £25
12th August, 10am-4pm – Butterfly identification – £25
9th September, 10am-4pm – Grasshopper and cricket identification
Mammal society 63rd Spring conference and AGM, Friday 31st March 6pm – Sunday 2nd April at 4:30pm at Robin College, University of Cambridge
More details here http://www.mammal.org.uk/events/the-mammal-society-63rd-spring-conference-agm/
Conserving our green spaces https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/20/parks-at-risk-green-campaigners-launch-crowdsourcing-study
Save your stamps for the RSPB http://www.rspb.org.uk/join-and-donate/donate/appeals/albatross/howyoucanhelp/stamps.aspx
Save your Christmas cards for the Woodland trust http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blogs/woodland-trust/2016/11/christmas-card-recycling/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ccrs&utm_content=blog
Imogen Gast sent this link (thank you Imogen, you are SEEN contributor of the week!) – New species of moth looks like Donald Trump – http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38661091
A sexually selected extravagant trait in the sex that invests least in offspring (usually the male) is often described as maladaptive, giving a signal to the choosy female of the male’s quality because he has survived despite this trait. In the collared flycatcher climate change is resulting in additional environmental selection pressures which mean the male’s extravagant trait (a white patch on his forehead) has become less extravagant http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0060
Responses of lowland tropical communities to climate change, in space and time – the effect of body size http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1847/20162335?etoc
What does President Trump mean for science? http://www.nature.com/news/trumppresident-1.21186
Posted By : Judith Lock