Buglife staff have fun on the bing!

Buglife have just had their annual staff conference and this year we were in Scotland! We decided to take the team to Fallin Bing to show them the work we have been doing and also how amazing the site is. Although cold at the top of the bing with the wind, the sun was shining allowing us to see the views from the top.

 

Buglife staff enjoy the view from the top of Fallin Bing

Buglife staff were given nets to have a look for some bugs and managed to collect some different things to what Niall Currie (TCV Natural Talent Apprentice who has been surveying Fallin for invertebrates-see blog post from 27^th August and 12^th September) had collected before. We had a caterpillar of the Birch sawfly (Cimbex femoratus) and the Peppered moth (Biston betularia) as well as the hoverfly Sphaeroprhoria scripta.

Looking at the sweep net to see whats inside...

As the sun was out there were lots of bugs around.

While they were busy collecting and having fun I was out with the video camera getting some footage of the team at work. It was great to get footage of the Buglife staff collecting bugs as well as lots of photos as we can use this for the digital record for the All Our Stories project which we will give back to the local community to use.

We have our next habitat creation day on Tuesday the 1^st of October from 10am to 3pm. We will be clearing birch scrub from the footpath and also creating some banks for ground nesting invertebrates. Everyone is welcome to attend and cake will be provided! You can come along for as little or as long as you want. We will be meeting in the car park at Fallin Mining museum at 10am. For more information about the day please contact Suzanne Bairner at suzanne.bairner@buglife.org.uk and 01786 447504.