Graeme Lyons: “Biological Recording on Farmland”
Graeme Lyons, an independent ecologist and prolific pan-species recorder for Sussex (and beyond!), talks about his experiences carrying out farmland surveys and the incredible biodiversity that can be found there.
You can follow Graeme on twitter @graemelyons and read his blog here.
Pete Boardman: “An Introduction to Craneflies”
Pete Boardman, the national organiser for the UK Cranefly recording scheme, gives an introduction to Craneflies and the recording scheme, and how to identify a few of the 350 species recorded in Britain.
You can follow the Cranefly Recording Scheme on twitter @CRStipula and visit the Recording Scheme page here. The scheme also has a Facebook group for discussing Cranefly recording here
Christine Taylor: “The HLF Guermonprez Collection at Portsmouth Museums”
HLF Guermonprez, a naturalist who lived in Bognor Regis, amassed a huge natural history collection through his lifetime. Christine Taylor from Portsmouth Museum talks about the Heritage Lottery Funded project ‘Wild about Portsmouth’ which has untangled his legacy, and how recorders can access the information held at Portsmouth Museum.
You can visit the Cumberland House Natural History Museum website here.
An article about the collection is available here.
Nick Aplin: “DNA Analysis & Field Mycology”
Nick Aplin, amateur mycologist, County Recorder for Ascomycota, and Sussex Fungus Group organiser, talks about his experiences using Bento Lab DNA barcoding to identify species of fungi, including those unrecorded in the UK and previously unknown to science.
You can read more about work being done with Bento Lab and mycology here.
Sussex Fungus Group is online here and you can read more about the Barcoding Sussex project here.
Paul Harmes: “Lizard Orchids” & Clare Blencowe: “The 2021 Adastra Publication”
Paul Harmes, member of Sussex Botanical Recording Society and BSBI, talks about Sussex’s 2021 Lizard Orchid ‘spike’, and SxBRC Manager Clare Blencowe introduces the 2021 Adastra publication and a brief round-up of SxBRC news.
If you’d like to learn more about Sussex Botanical Recording Society, you can visit their website ( here) and follow them on twitter ( @Sussex_Botany).
Copies of ‘The Flora of Sussex’ are available from NHBS here.