Except, I have a guilty confession....
I always get tempted away from the job in hand by certain websites...
You know the kind.
One such late night online session last week, resulted in a parcel landing with a thud on my doorstep this morning.
I'm not referring to anything untoward here but it's the sites of the purveyors of natural history books that I'm drawn towards.
On opening the package I found the rather beautiful Suomen Luteet [Finnish Bugs]. It is a comprehensive guide to 521 species of Heteroptera known from Finland but has a good crossover with UK species. Obviously, the text is all in Finnish but the extensive photo spreads are great and will make a great first point of reference when dealing with specimens.
A wee bit of google translate does the job for most of the language and I'll go through and mark which the UK species are. Now that winter is properly here (ground frosts and everything) it's also a nice reminder of the year to come.
Ages ago I had an app that used the iPhone camera to auto translate text in real time. Can't for the life of me find or remember what it was now.
Bugger! If anyone can recommend one please do let me know.
I'm not referring to anything untoward here but it's the sites of the purveyors of natural history books that I'm drawn towards.
On opening the package I found the rather beautiful Suomen Luteet [Finnish Bugs]. It is a comprehensive guide to 521 species of Heteroptera known from Finland but has a good crossover with UK species. Obviously, the text is all in Finnish but the extensive photo spreads are great and will make a great first point of reference when dealing with specimens.
A wee bit of google translate does the job for most of the language and I'll go through and mark which the UK species are. Now that winter is properly here (ground frosts and everything) it's also a nice reminder of the year to come.
Ages ago I had an app that used the iPhone camera to auto translate text in real time. Can't for the life of me find or remember what it was now.
Bugger! If anyone can recommend one please do let me know.
The Google Translate app will do the live translation from a phone camera.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete, tried that but really patchy and not much use I'm afraid.
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