As summer ends..

..so does the fieldwork season.

This summer has been a lot fun (and head-aches!), searching for the elusive Galba truncatula, intermediate host for the liver fluke in Denmark. It turns out that it is not as easy to spot, as we could have hoped. After spending many weeks in rubber-boots, crawling on muddy ditches, I decided to try a new means of sampling: the canoe!

.....that turned out to be both fun - and quite efficient! Here is a little sample of the little ones

Now, time to move indoors again - but still snail-work ahead, as I just discovered this little jar of gems in the Natural History Museum of Denmarks @NHM_Denmark  collection.