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Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers

The Life Scientific

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Wasp Survey - Why Do You Have to Kill Them?

Citizen science projects are a great way of getting people involved in scientific research. Your wasp survey upset some people yetdi, it was back in two thousand 17 so i was working with syry and sumner down at usel. The idea was to get members of the public to collect wasps in their back garden using beer traps. And we'd launched all this, and i con remember idly checking sort of google news at four o'clock that afternoon to see if anyone picked it up. And and they had picked itup. So you end up with a situation where you can't survey them without doing it fatally. We're working on ways that you can, because it

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