Not a lot of entomology for me this month, I've been mostly thinking back on this year as well forward to 2025.
I've never kept a regular journal for a whole year before so this has been an interesting exercise. While it's nice to be able to recap the year easily, it hasn't been an easy process for me. I'm not a natural diarist and this journal has been rather selective. To be able to keep this up I need to make some changes, and from January I won't be writing a full journal each month, but I do want to continue on a more advanced ad hoc basis, so in future months it will be more of a digest than a diary.
Low carbon biological recording - and remembering sunny afternoons in the garden.
First VC55 record for the Ray Spider, Theridiosoma gemmosum.
My Journal, December 2024
03.xii.2024
A local trip to the Attenborough Arboretum. Not much to be found but lots of Giant Willow Aphids. After some effort I did manage to confirm a record of Mycena calvularis on a Willow trunk, a good result for my rusty mycology.
09.xii.2024
Weather pretty bad, so a week of microscope work catching up on the summer backlog.
13.xii.2024
LRES first ever online meeting on Aquatic Bugs seemed to be well received by guests. The members were possibly less keen on this format.
17.xii.2024
Went on a secret mission to a secret location to collect a secret species for a secret project! Sorry, but I hope to have an exciting update in 2025!
29.xii.2024
After two weeks of the gloomy weather I can remember, finally a pink dawn and some sunshine. With the days getting longer, a prospect of hope on the horizon for entomology in the year to come.
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