Tuesday 28th June 2016. Led by James Hill, University of Liverpool. What are they? How do I identify them? Why should I care? My first encounter with lichens was on old walls and gravestones in a local church yard. These unusual organisms consist of a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga, with...
Tutor: Julia Simons Merseyside Biobank Open to members of Biodiverse Society Thurs 19 May 2016 This popular 2 hour course concentrated on the identification and raison d’etre of recording Lepidoptera as valuable indicators of the state of our environment on a local and national scale. We learned that butterflies can inform us about the...