Freshwater Biological Association

As a Regional Hub for the Riverfly Partnership (RP), the FBA held a training course and a refresher session for Riverfly monitoring groups in the last few weeks. The sessions were run in conjunction with South Cumbria Rivers Trust, and the enthusiastic participants ignored the rather damp conditions to enjoy a field and lab based introduction to invertebrate sampling and identification for the RP monitoring method. The groups are now ready to go out and start monitoring their own stretches of river on a regular basis.

The FBA are running a two day training course on 'Identifying caddis' on Thursday 25th - Friday 26th June 2015 at the FBA, Windermere. Places are still available on the course. To find out more details and to book a place, please go to www.fba.org.uk/fba-training-courses or contact us at events@fba.org.uk.