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Pollinator counts – insects and flowers
Pollinators are insects that visit flowers to drink nectar or feed on pollen. During this process, they get covered in pollen grains and then transport the...
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Yellow pan traps – monitoring flying insects
Insect vision is quite different to human vision, but insects do see colours, and they use their colour vision to get around and find food. We...
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Pitfall traps – monitoring ground-dwelling insects
Pitfall traps are simply containers dug into the ground so the top of the container is level with the ground. Sometimes a small roof can be...