January totals

Triplax aenea

So January finished with much higher invertebrate totals across the board than I anticipated, despite ice, snow, hail and frost for much of the month. The baited bottle trap succumbed to wind and rain, with water ingress forcing off the bait chamber. However, there's nothing that would be there in freezing weather in January that won't be findable in February and it's a good thing I'll still have something to count. February is a hard shift in year listing because so much of what's there is already listed in January. That being said, additions haven't really slowed.

I managed to find something to fit into most of the categories, and even found new species in a good many (bold in table). Some smaller categories I have completed 100% of target, but targets are there to be exceeded. All in all, 38 species have been added to the reserve list so far, 26 of which were also new to me. I was amazed to be able to find 50 species of beetle, not counting a few I haven't identified, and just sneaked over the line on 20 spiders with Bathyphantes approximatus on the 30th (new to me but known from the reserve). New to both me and the reserve on the 30th was the beauty queen of woodlice (?), Porcellio spinicornis. I feel like I must have seen it before, but then I turned out not to have P.scaber on my list, so who knows!

The reserve total now stands at 2188.

Category	Count
mollusc	4
annelid	2
flatworm	1
harvestman	4
pseudoscorpion	1
spider	20
gall mite	0
tick	1
millipede	3
centipede	2
crustacean	5
collembola	7
odonata	0
dermaptera	0
orthoptera	0
hemiptera	10
coleoptera	50
diptera	18
lep-moth	0
lep-butterfly	0
hymenoptera	2
insect-other	1
invert-other	0
Total	131