A lot of meetings, discussions and email this month but not a lot of visible activity I can discuss. Rain, frost and the start of meteorological winter feels like winter, which is good - without winter there is no spring.
Did Lonely Walter find love?
A second attempt at upgrading my compound microscope.
Crystallography
Aphanus rolandri, 4th record for VC55.
What's the point of buying a new microscope if you can't have some fun? Given the recent poor weather and the fact that I've just bought a microscope with a polarising filter, I recrystallized some household stuff and these are the first results.
Notable Finds:
News from Elsewhere:
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
A new paper shows that warming conditions in late summer and autumn result in shorter larval development and smaller adult size, rather than the probability of a third generation successfully developing as previously suggested.
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