Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Countryside students survey the pitfalls of hedgerow biodiversity

Countryside management students continue to look for signs of life in the college hedgerows. Having identified the value of the college hedgerows in previous weeks, the group set out to find what insects the farm hedgerows were supporting. The students set five pitfall traps at five very different hedgerows so they could compare the results and calculate the value of each of the hedgerows.
Tom managed to dig up part of an old chain-harrow as he set his pitfall trap which led to a group discussion on what they would do if they dug up an historical artefact such as a pot of roman coins. While no decision was made on what the group would do if they did make such a discovery it was agreed that an unexploded second world war bomb was the item they would least want to dig up…..




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