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Methods of Investigating — week 3

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Samantha Whetton

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I didn’t take any notes this week, focussing instead on drawing and then using a digital microscope to look at plant specimens and also on site to record the plants in-situ and the built environment too.

Here is my final presentation PDF

Below are my drawings and a large selection of microscopic imagery I captured, including a couple of videos to better show the insects I found.

A translucent white insect on a cutting of Yew.
An orange insect on a cutting of Verbena bonariensis

Drawings

Drawings of shadows projected on my notebook

Microscope imagery
— with collected plant materials

Aster divaricatus or Eurybia divaricata

Geranium

Greek Horehound Ballota pseudodictamnus

Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’

Rush, roughly ID as Chondropetalum tectorum

Verbena bonariensis

Yew Taxus Baccata

Microscope imagery
— on site plant materials

The Yew and Box hedge

Greek Horehound Ballota pseudodictamnus

Knapweed (which I’d previously been ignoring from plant lists as it’s only one stem in the middle of one of hte horehounds)

Microscope imagery
— on site built materials

Brick wall

lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
cigarette stuck in a hole in one of the bricks, took me 4 visits to the site to find it
lichen on the top surface of the wall and some black paint
lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
lichen on the top surface of the wall
a strange hole in one of the bricks
a brick with iron(?) in it, from the side of the wall: no lichen

Benches

a deep crack in the wood where the varnish has also come away in areas
the edge of one of the circular wooden caps
the varnish, where its been stood in whilst wet
sunflower seed in a crack
the inside of a crack in the bench
the weathered wood where the varnish has come away

The pavers

Things that have fallen between the gaps where the pavers aren’t grouted

an ant :-)
smoked end of a cigarette
an old key (flying seed/fruit) from a nearby tree
yes fruit and a delicate piece of a plant, seeds or similar
dead bumblebee
two different brands of cigarette
the crimped edge of a clear plastic food wrapper
the crimped edge of a clear plastic food wrapper

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