Monday 30 July 2012

Strumpshaw Bioblitz

Last week saw a lot of specialist come to Strumpshaw to help us try to record as many species as possible.
It was good fun listing like a maniac for a week and we did various events for families and individuals alike, which saw a lot of people take a look at taxa they may not usually notice.
I will update more results as they come in but currently the list stands at a whopping 1004!
My main contributionwas the Moths of which I recorded over 200 species, with help from dad, thanks! It is a shame the nights were so clear, the final two nights had more cloud cover and the number of micros increased dramatically. A brief photo documentation of the weeks moths and others.....

Is the vole a water vole? Taken at Winterton Dunes?? 


Double Kidney
Olive









Small Red Eyed Damselfly

Candy-stripe Spider






5 comments:

  1. It's a Candy-stripe Spider

    Tim

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  2. Nice one, cheers Tim, had to have a name like that with those colours.
    Cheers,

    Ben

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  3. Some good stuff there. I'll be coming to the public moth event on Aug 12th, so if you could catch some reedbed specialities then, that would be great ;-)

    James

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  4. looks like a water vole to me Ben

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  5. I'll put a trap in the reedbed James don't worry hopefully get a selection of Wainscots to work out, I'll also one in the woods for some variation too.

    Cheers Paul, just thought it was a bit of an odd place for a Water vole being on a dune slack at Winterton.

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