{"id":630,"date":"2015-09-17T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:06:06","slug":"throwback-thursday-chasing-flies-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/09\/17\/throwback-thursday-chasing-flies-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday &#8211; Chasing flies in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Throwback Thursday is from my trip to Scotland with the Dipterists Forum in September 2013, a wonderful week in the highlands collecting flies which I wrote up as a guest post for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/natureplus\/blogs\/diptera-blog\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum\u00a0Curator of Diptera\u2019s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceonthespectrum.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/chasing-flies-in-scotland.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing flies in Scotland<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Between handing in my MSc thesis and my viva voce, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to join Dipterists from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/\">Natural History Museum<\/a> on a collection trip to Scotland as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipteristsforum.org.uk\/\">Dipterists Forum<\/a> Autumn Field Meeting. Despite the daunting prospect of a long journey and sharing a cottage with people I barely knew I couldn\u2019t pass up the opportunity for an intensive week studying flies which was also my first trip across the border.<\/p>\n<p>I had a fantastic time, proving to me yet again that no matter how scary something seems it is always worth doing it anyway. I even had the honour of writing up the trip for Erica McAlister\u2019s Curator of Diptera\u2019s Blog, so rather than blog the trip here is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/natureplus\/blogs\/diptera-blog\/2013\/10\/04\/field-trips-as-seen-through-the-eyes-of-the-innocents\">Field trips through the eyes of innocents\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>Dipterists under the (double) rainbow, Knappach Cottage, Kingussie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-kxVrnONYddI\/UlLSiCi0epI\/AAAAAAAABYk\/uQK_gCIS1OA\/s1600-h\/IMG_2128%25255B6%25255D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_2128\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Flh3.ggpht.com%2F-KfpkiW9dWe8%2FUlLSinyKuII%2FAAAAAAAABYo%2Fk_X1CgSfSNA%2FIMG_2128_thumb%2525255B3%2525255D.jpg%3Fimgmax%3D800&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" alt=\"IMG_2128\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Since the trip I have joined the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipteristsforum.org.uk\/\">Dipterists Forum<\/a>\u00a0committee and am now Treasurer. Sadly I have not had the time or money to go on another fieldtrip, but next summer&#8217;s is local to me in Kent, so hopefully I might be able to take a couple of days out and switch earthworms for flies!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Throwback Thursday is from my trip to Scotland with the Dipterists Forum in September 2013, a wonderful week in the highlands collecting flies which I wrote up as a guest post for the Natural History Museum\u00a0Curator of Diptera\u2019s Blog. &nbsp; &nbsp; Chasing flies in Scotland Between handing in my MSc thesis and my viva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94982,95289,96598,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entomology","category-fieldwork","category-throwback-thursday","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}