Monitoring arthropods in nectareous strips successfully completed

During October we performed the last phase of monitoring the biodiversity of pollinators and other arthropod groups that resulted from nectareous flower strips managed under various conditions. The experimental flower strips (sown in the spring) are growing beautifully and some of them have had a second harvest during the autumn. We have collected a large amount of material during the monitoring season, so we have a lot of work to do in the laboratory to sort the collected samples…