After a couple of days of blisteringly hot weekend sun, what better way to spend a Monday afternoon than by sampling insects collected from the Plants for Bugs plots!
In a past post, I mentioned that one of our five invertebrate sampling methodologies involves the use of pitfall traps to collect invertebrates active on the ground. To record those that remain largely on the foliage, we use a Vortis suction sampler.
RHS Senior Entomologist Andy uses a Vortis suction sampler to collect insects on the foliage