{"id":103,"date":"2015-04-05T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2024-12-21T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T23:56:22","slug":"training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=103","title":{"rendered":"Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Field Collecting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1040485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1040485-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Collecting in the Oetztal Alps (Austria) on a rainy day.\" class=\"wp-image-104\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1040485-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1040485-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1040485.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Collecting in the Oetztal Alps (Austria) on a rainy day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you or a student (or a classroom of students) want to learn from an old-school natural historian and taxonomist about how he views the plant-insect world, send me a note.&nbsp; Obviously I focus on aphids (and psyllids) and the plants they are likely to feed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with an ecological bent in my thinking, I like to get out and get a sense of a place, the plants, other animals, and along the way collect some samples.\u00a0 I enjoy teaching people in the field about plants, insects, and collecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Slide Mounting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been making slide preparations of aphids, whiteflies, psyllids, and other small arthropods for 30 years.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a total of, I don&#8217;t know, at least 17,000 slides.\u00a0 It takes a lot of practice to get good at slide making, but with good training a person can learn it in just a few weeks (assuming you have steady hands!).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AJ6152-2nd-from-rt-habitus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AJ6152-2nd-from-rt-habitus.jpg\" alt=\"Aphthargelia rumbleboredomia oviparous female ex Symphoricarpos, cleared and mounted in Canada balsam.\" class=\"wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AJ6152-2nd-from-rt-habitus.jpg 576w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AJ6152-2nd-from-rt-habitus-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aphthargelia rumbleboredomia oviparous female ex Symphoricarpos, cleared and mounted in Canada balsam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field Collecting If you or a student (or a classroom of students) want to learn from an old-school natural historian and taxonomist about how he views the plant-insect world, send me a note.&nbsp; Obviously I focus on aphids (and psyllids) and the plants they are likely to feed on. But with an ecological bent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/2380"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}