infocus #27 September 2012 From Fairy Tale to Snail Slime

Beth Barber, Education Officer at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses, tells us what her and her Nature Explorers Club have been getting up to since purchasing two microscopes through the RMS AMFES Scheme

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.86

"Miss, you have got to see this. It's...[dramatic pause to select exactly the right word] HUMUNGOUS!"

Fighting my way through the crowd of excitable 8 year olds crowding around the eyepiece of one of our microscopes, I look down to see a rather startled black bean aphid
gazing back up at me, and it’s true she does look humungous.

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