Big Nature Day 2011 highlights | Natural History Museum
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Channel: Natural History Museum · 2011 · Science & Technology
See the highlights from our 2011 Big Nature Day. Hundreds of visitors, including many excited children and me, joined in the Big Nature Count, a bioblitz of the Museum's Wildlife Garden. Researchers and volunteers were out and about with traps, nets and cameras, conducting samples of wildlife in the 24-hour nature census. A big malaise trap tent had been set up for flying insects, light traps for moths and pitfall traps - little jars in the ground - to attract ground beetles and slugs. We were celebrating the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May. It was destined to be a busy event - with over 300 plant species in the garden there is a lot to attract a wide variety of insects.
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