Tag: school malaise trap program
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My Internship Experience at BIO
My name is Anaïs and I’m from Montpellier, which is located in the South of France. It is a big university town and I study Biology at the University in Montpellier. I just completed my first year and now I’m in Guelph for 6 weeks (July 8th –August 19th, 2015) doing an internship with the…
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Bugs From All Schools Of Study
Hello faithful readers, I’m back! Last you heard, I was returning from a harrowing six week trip on the BIObus to the west coast of Canada, and just recently I returned from the two week field entomology course offered by the University of Guelph. It marked both the final expedition of the course (as far…
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A Great Start To The Summer
Hello everyone! My name is Dan Engelking, and I am currently working in Collections as a Collections Technician for BIO this summer. I would like to officially welcome you to my portion of the blog!
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Much Ado About Mothing
Hello there! My name is Shannon and I am a fifth year Zoology student lucky enough to be part of the team at BIO this summer. Officially, my job is titled “collections processor”, but unofficially I’d like to think of myself as more of a bug doctor.
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Processing Malaise Traps from Schools across Canada
The Collections team has worked hard the past 2 weeks sorting and preparing samples collected from schools around the country for this fall’s School Malaise Trap Program. Our first step was to count the specimens in each sample bottle and our grand total from 59 schools was 61,052 specimens!