Amazing news, my international exchange project to work with Sylvain Pincebourde (CNRS, France) was funded in May 2023! Sylvain and I have started working on linking microclimate (his expertise) and butterfly fertility (me). As a start, Sylvain visited Lincoln in June 2023 and we trialled two different thermal imaging cameras to measure temperature on wild and domesticated cabbages as well as eggs, caterpillars and pupae of the large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae. The wild black mustard, Brassica nigra, plants came from seeds that Nina Fatouros, Wageningen University, shared with me, while we grew kale (Brassica oleracea spp.) from organic seeds. The two thermal imaging cameras (FLIR E54 and FLIR T540) worked well, with the FLIR T540 comfortably outperforming the FLIR E54. No surprise there, as the price tag of the FLIR T540 is almost double that of the FLIR E54! The good news is that we can pick out the temperature differences across the leaves. This work was also done thanks to Teun's efforts - Teun is my summer Erasmus research intern for 2023. I look forward to developing this collaboration over the course of the next few years.
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