I write this post on the penultimate day of our fortnight of fieldwork, though it’s only supposed to take ten days! As with all fieldwork in the UK we are at the mercy of the weather and so are constantly glued to a variety of weather forecasts, refreshing the pages periodically throughout the evenings. Despite our weather woes, what we are doing is pretty cool. Vincent (post doc), Isobel (undergraduate) and I are collecting pollinator species on farms around the south of Eng