Saturday, 20 July 2013

Killarney Biodiversity Weekend

Checking waterway health
 We were lucky enough to be involved in a  Biodiversity weekend at Killarney. There were so many experts presenting on such a wide variety of subjects it was really difficult to decide which of the concurrent talks to attend.  In the end we split up to get the widest possible exposure to all the fantastic information available. We learnt about waterway health and rehabilitation, native bees, soils, social media networking, insects for agriculture and so much more.  On the last day we did a field trip with 2 waterway specialists who helped us locate and identify lots of critters who's presence is indicative of waterway health.  Below are some of the insects we found.