100 SPECIES! (and a summary)

I'm celebrating our 100th tree band species today. Maybe that shouldn't be a celebration, now that I think of it. For the record, this included North Carolina firsts for 16 species (7 beetles, 1 syrphid, 1 sawfly, 2 spiders, 1 psyllid, 1 moth, 1 ichneumonid, 1 collembolan, and 1 leafhopper). The collembolan, Prorastriopes wexfordensis, was a world iNat 1st (and 1st record for BugGuide) as was the zopherid beetle a world iNat 1st (Hyporhagus punctulatus). Needless to say, if you put Tanglefoot traps over a couple hundred trees or so you're going to trap (and unfortunately kill) a lot of bugs.

Sometimes I sample haphazardly, sometimes I make a count. Adding up days when I counted the trees I looked at during an outing this season, I've seen just 8 Fall Cankerworms on 102 banded trees.

-Ken

Publicado el 27 de marzo de 2020 por kenkneidel