Cullaloe LNR, Fife - Slow, slow, qui ... just slow, mostly

With changeable weather and not so much time to visit the site I've been only trickling new species onto the list. At least a large proportion of them have been new to the reserve and some new to me. Add to that the fact that a few have been tricky to ID and that brought the pace way down. I don't mind that so much. I'm still in line with, or slightly better than, last year's numbers and the reserve list is rocketing towards a target of 2k (up 167 on last year!)

I'll probably aim for 700 by end of the month, with a brief holiday slowing things down even more. I reckon it's very unlikely that I'll beat Tim's fastest 1000 at this point.

Other things to watch out for is being only 3 away from 300 Lepidoptera and closing in on 200 flies.

Water Carpet

Latest additions:

613					diptera	Gymnocheta viridis	A  tachinid fly
614			R		lep-moth	Trichopteryx carpinata	Early Tooth-striped
615			R	M	diptera	Culiseta annulata	A mosquito
616			R	M	diptera	Mycomya tenuis	A fungus gnat
617			R	M	diptera	Phorbia fumigata	A flower fly
618					lep-moth	Lampropteryx suffumata	Water Carpet
619					lep-moth	Panolis flammea	Pine Beauty
620			R		lep-moth	Eupithecia exiguata	Mottled Pug

Category	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
alga	1	1	1	1
Protist other	0	0	0	0
slime mould	0	1	1	1
lichen	33	37	40	40
fungus	67	93	103	103
liverwort	9	9	10	10
moss	44	45	48	48
flowering plant	93	95	102	110
conifer	2	2	2	2
fern	4	4	4	4
cnidarian	0	0	0	0
mollusc	11	20	21	21
bryozoan	0	0	0	0
annelid	2	3	5	5
flatworm	0	1	1	1
harvestman	3	5	5	5
pseudoscorpion	1	1	1	1
spider	19	24	25	25
gall mite	0	0	0	0
tick	0	1	1	1
millipede	2	5	5	5
centipede	2	2	2	2
crustacean	4	5	5	5
collembola	6	7	8	8
bristletail	0	0	0	0
odonata	0	0	0	0
dermaptera	1	1	1	1
orthoptera	0	0	0	0
hemiptera	5	9	11	11
coleoptera	30	47	56	56
diptera	4	19	44	49
lep-moth	4	13	21	25
lep-butterfly	0	1	1	1
hymenoptera	4	8	9	9
insect-other	1	2	3	3
tunicate	0	0	0	0
echinoderm	0	0	0	0
invert-other	0	0	0	0
fish	0	0	0	0
reptile	0	0	0	0
amphibian	1	2	3	3
bird	48	56	64	65
mammal	1	1	4	4
	402	520	607	625