Cullaloe, Fife - this and that

A slow February, as predicted, with a lot of winter stuff recorded in January. Inverts are picking up and a couple of traps have been placed to good effect with some water beetles and a few moths starting to trickle in.

The bottle trap for flies is part of a study for Calliphoridae, though I haven't had any yet. So far I've had about 40 Sylvicola fenestralis cinctus and some (what I think are) Dryomyzidae. In any event acalypterate flies which I have no firm ID for (edit: they were Dryomyza flaveola)

Traps

Satellite

Galerucella lineola

Metzneria snuggled up in Knapweed (thanks, Ben Smart!)

One of the benefits of living near Edinburgh, with RBG and the National Museum of Scotland close at hand is being able to call on high quality assistance. This Ichneumon would almost certainly have been given either no name or the wrong name by me (although I did get the other one right - yay!). 500 is the target for Feb, although I have now passed last year's February total of 457. Not that far ahead, really.

Numbers:

	Jan	Feb
Algae	1	1
Lichens	33	37
Fungi	67	76
Vascular	99	101
Bryophytes	53	54
Mollusc	11	14
Arachnida	23	28
Collembola	6	6
Hemiptera	5	8
Hymenoptera	4	5
Coleoptera	30	40
Diptera	4	8
Lepidoptera	4	8
Invert - Other	12	16
Vert - Birds	48	54
Vert - Other	2	2
Total	402	458