Cullaloe LNR, Fife - Europhile agony

The timing of last night's beetle star made me lol a bit.

Agonum (Europhilus) thoreyi is a beetle associated with marshes and this came in a bag of goodies from litter still lying around on the reserve from clearing out the spillway from the main pond. And bless SWT for leaving this lying around. It's chock full of exciting things, and two new spiders and two new beetles have emerged from a hypdrophilic fauna so far.

Two weeks in and I passed the 1/3 of a thousand on the 11th Jan, passed last year's January total on the 13th. All being well I'm aiming to reach 1/4 of target (1500) by end of January. Which is 375 if my basic arithmetic is any good. Don't get me wrong - 400 would be awesome, but anything over 375 is a bonus.

Current total: 350
New for reserve: 44 (6 spiders!)
New for me: 11

The newly cleared spillway

Agonum (Europhilus) thoreyi

Also a grass pile coughed up the first new moth of the year with a Ruby Tiger. That's intriguing because with a fair bit of trapping in the same area we've never recorded an adult here yet!

Breakdown

Algae	1
Lichens	30
Fungi	58
Plants - Vascular	95
Plants - Bryo	48
Mollusc	5
Arachnida	21
Collembola	5
Hemiptera	5
Hymenoptera	2
Coleoptera	22
Diptera	3
Lepidoptera	2
Invert - Other	6
Vert - Birds	46
Vert - Other	1
Total	350