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This blog is intended as an occasional diary of information to feed back to hoverfly recorders in the UK and elsewhere. Inevitably there will be issues of interest that are in some way relevant to invertebrate ecologists and consequently I intend to use the medium as an opportunity to develop thoughts on pertinent topics.

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Where have the Hedgehogs gone?

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I'm drafting an article for the 'Friends of Mitcham Common' that I thought might be of interest to a wider readership: Chris...

Thursday, 2 January 2020

Changing recorder behaviours

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When I started extracting data from the internet, almost all records were of single species from a locality on the same day. The value of th...

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Saturday, 13 July 2019

Picking up signals from the data. Some examples

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I have spent a sizeable part of the day trying to make something of the data that are emerging this year. My feeling is that there are proba...

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Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Getting started as a serious Dipterist

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There was a recent post on the UK Hoverflies Facebook Group concerning 'starter kits' for new recruits. The query did not specifical...

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Thursday, 20 June 2019

Common species matter

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I return to that perennial chestnut – whether there is any value in records of common species? New recruits to recording schemes often w...

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Roger Morris: An retired ecologist with over 30 years experience in statutory nature conservation and biological recording. I am joint organiser of the Hoverfly Recording Scheme (with Dr Stuart Ball) and am extremely committed to developing new capacity in insect identification and biological recording.

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