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The Waterbug Workshop 10 1 - 3 July 2015 Monash University (Clayton, Victoria - Australia) - email John if you have any questions... Registration CLOSES - June 3rd 2015 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Waterbug Workshop Overview The Waterbug Workshop is designed to give participants the skills to identify aquatic macroinvertebrates (waterbugs) to Order and Family Level (if you are interested in genus level identification skills, we would like to hear from you and we can organise more advanced workshops if needed). In the course of the workshop participants are taught how to use taxonomic keys to identify waterbugs. The participants are then taken through the array of common families of aquatic macroinvertebrates from the easiest to the hardest to identify. Participants are encouraged to bring their own material that they want to identify at the workshop, this ensures that the knowledge they take home is relevant to them and not just based on a random set of animals that we found in Tom's farm dam the week before. The emphasis of the workshop is on building the skills to interpret the key descriptions rather than on parrot learning as many groups as possible. Hi-tech lab equipment is utilised to demonstrate the key identification features of each group as well as 'dead giveaways', shortcuts and 'folklore' material that will make your identification process that much easier and infinitely more fun. The primary text used is The Waterbug Book (oddly enough) accompanied by more complex taxonomic keys produced by MDFRC and the classic book by WD Williams "Australian Freshwater Life". Previous Waterbug Workshops Inaugural Waterbug Workshop assessment Third Waterbug Workshop assessment |
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