Cullaloe LNR - 50 species in 8 days

So the clock turned over to 950 this morning when I realised I had failed to thus far record the abundant Bird's-foot Trefoil, leaving 50 to find before 21st June if I'm to match last year's effort. I'd like to do that but only one weekend remains. And it's raining. And it's 7 degrees. Well, you never know. It's close enough to try if the weather shifts.

Fish-baited bottle and pitfall traps have been returning good numbers of silphids, including the below Thanatophilus rugosus (new to reserve, new to me). Credit for this belongs in part to Ashleigh Whiffin of NMS who did a very nice presentation on silphids at a nearby ecology centre recently.

The "remaining" list -species already known from the reserve which I haven't recorded this year is ticking down too - 1014 species left. I reckon I won't be far beyond the 1000 this year before the 2k reserve tally comes up. Numbers, numbers, numbers ... still the fascination is in the organisms themselves. Even wrinkly, stinky beetles. Maybe especially ...

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935			R		flowering plant	Meconopsis cambrica	Welsh Poppy
936					flowering plant	Solanum dulcamara	Bittersweet
937					lep-moth	Lomaspilis marginata	Clouded Border
938					lep-moth	Pharmacis fusconebulosa	Map-winged Swift
939					lep-moth	Apamea unanimis	Small Clouded Brindle
940					hymenoptera	Vespula vulgaris	Common Wasp
941					diptera	Dasyneura ulmariae	A gall midge
942					diptera	Chloromyia formosa	Broad Centurion
943					lep-moth	Odezia atrata	Chimney Sweeper
944			R	M	coleoptera	Thanatophilus rugosus	A Carrion Beetle
945					diptera	Limonia nubeculosa	A Cranefly
946					diptera	Polietes lardarius	A muscid fly
947			R		lep-moth	Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla	Twin-spot Plume
948			R		diptera	Calliphora loewii	A blow fly
949					diptera	Chaetostomella cylindrica	A Picture-winged Fly
950					flowering plant	Lotus corniculatus	Common Bird’s-foot-trefoil