Scientists need to follow standardised methodology, but designing an effective protocol is not without its challenges. It is yet another morning of driving to the field site, and we pull up the weather forecast for the last days of this sampling session. Will we finally have the dry window of 48 hours that we need to set invertebrate traps in the twenty-four cages of our project? Leaving our traps out during high rain probability not only means we run the risk of lower insect activity and therefore non-representative numbers in our traps, but also that in the event of heavy rain, traps could flood and make the data nonviable. The previous samplings took place during good weather, when insects were more active. Over the course of two years, each year has samplings set at specific times in the seasons to be able to compare changes over time. Thus, more importantly, we want data to be comparable to our previous samplings and to other studies with the same aims. Teammates sort plants in the lab, quantify …