We’ll be joining moth enthusiast, Chris Vincent, as he opens up the live overnight moth trap to see what’s been caught. Chris is setting out the live moth trap the night before in an area where we carried out some habitat management work earlier this year. After we’ve looked at all the mothy delights we’ll carry out some simple insect pollinator surveys.
We’ll be using the skills we learnt on our previous ‘Introduction to identifying sand dune insect pollinators’ workshops to carry out some Flower-Insect Timed Count (FIT Count) surveys (10 minute simple surveys – recording the number and type of pollinating insects visiting specific flower species). These FIT counts are part of the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme and give useful data about the health of the UK’s pollinator population.
You don’t need to have specific plant or insect ID expertise to take part – we aim to learn together (but if you can tell bees from wasps, or hoverflies from other flies then we’d love you to share your experitise with us!)
Please note : This session runs 8am – 1pm
