Yes it's finally the end of my summer and I'm back at uni in my third year. We kicked things off with a full-on week residential field course at Loch Lomond featuring invertebrate sampling, electro-fishing and experimental design! I thought I'd share some photos of our caddisfly experiment, where we caught a fair few of the leptoceridae family (which normally construct their cases from plant matter) and challenged them to build cases from a variety of different substrates. We had a couple of naked caddis larvae in dishes with either plant bits, sand, gravel, or plastic and left them for a couple of hours to see what they would do!
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| Ruffe caught during invert sampling in Loch Lomond |
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| Dragonfly nymph |
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| Red velvet mite |
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| The bonnie banks |
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| Brown trout caught while electrofishing |
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| An eel! |
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| Our caddisfly experiment |
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| What caddisfly cases usually look like. |
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| Our resourceful caddisfly larvae building with plastic |
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| Naked caddis larvae! |
I have also been dissecting earthworms, periwinkle, limpets, shore crab and a squid in uni labs to aid the learning experience. It's been a busy time and I've had a fair amount of coursework to get through but hopefully this weekend I'll have a taxidermied rabbit to show you :)
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