{"id":626,"date":"2015-07-25T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-07-25T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:23:58","slug":"bugs-day-at-imperial-college-silwood-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/07\/25\/bugs-day-at-imperial-college-silwood-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugs! day at Imperial College Silwood Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit lax with my blogging over the last few weeks as I have been busy writing and submitting my early stage assessment – a report of what I have done so far in my PhD and what I plan to do next. This will be followed up with a short viva from my panel – eek! So it was good to get a day out doing outreach at Imperial College Silwood Park<\/a> a few days after submitting. Silwood Park is Imperial’s postgraduate campus near Ascot, Berkshire, with\u00a0research and teaching in ecology, evolution, and conservation. One of my supervisors is based there, so I occasionally visit for meetings and eventually will be going there to extract and analyse microbial DNA from my soil samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Silwood<\/a>
Silwood Park Bugs! day flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time I was visiting for the Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment<\/a> (GCEE) Bugs! event which brought together Imperial College researchers and local wildlife groups for a day off engaging visitors in research, bug hunts and pond dipping. I was exhibiting some of the invertebrates that can be found in leaf litter, encouraging people to sieve them from the leaves and examine them under the microscope.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
Me sieving litter at Silwood Park Bugs! day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Equipment
Equipment for looking at leaf litter invertebrates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A carabid beetle and harvestman found in the leaf litter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other stands had activities to extract DNA from strawberries, examine aphids and their predators and parasites and fossil insects. I had a really enjoyable day finished off with a BBQ.\u00a0More information and photographs from the day can be found on the Bugs!\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit lax with my blogging over the last few weeks as I have been busy writing and submitting my early stage assessment – a report of what I have done so far in my PhD and what I plan to do next. This will be followed up with a short viva from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94982,53,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entomology","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}