This evening I bothered to check my Mapmate, had a quick squiz through photos and the blog, filtered out a couple that are not confirmed, and found that my garden beetle list is 69sp. Given that most of these are casual records or something in the moth trap, I was surprised at the total. I'm absolutely certain that it is incomplete, and I'm also certain that if I actively sought to increase the garden beetle list it would grow at a reasonable rate.
Here's one that I found in the garden in the pre-blog days long before I had any interest in beetles:
Agapanthia villosoviridescens - 17/06/2006
If I can be arsed, I might add another list before long - maybe hoverflies.
4 comments:
Great amount of moths ..
Made me look at my garden beetle list. Only 115. I must do better!
I think you'd laugh if you saw my garden Edward, but I should point out that it's taken c21 years to get to 698sp. - mature gardens in more favourable habitat/counties would easily surpass that over the same time.
I think that having drawn up a list Martin, it will give impetus to adding to it. I suspect adding beetles won't be a problem, and especially stuff taken at light it's being bothered to check and record them.
Ah, I have always had a huge interest in moths, but only got a trap late August, you'd laugh if you saw my garden but we're approx 280m above sea level in upland grassland, moorland and woodland. I do the Rishworth posts on Calderdale Moths blog if you don't know who I am.
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