Our mission is to discover every thing we can about the flora and fauna of our local area, through exploration, scientific sketches and research. Today we start by hunting down the elusive cicada...
Let us see where we are lead.....
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Voyaging Entomologists
This week we are becoming junior Entomologists. When captain Cook voyaged to Australis he took a team of scientists. This team was lead by Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Banks was a keen entomologist and botanist. However, his actual mission was to track the transit of Venus, for navigational purposes. But he was far more interested on discovering new flora and fauna.
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