Gnashers

Managed two visits yesterday - a "routine" visit during the day and an evening session to put out the moth trap (to no avail, it turned out).

The evening first - an interesting one, despite the dropping temperature, and there was plenty to see on tree trunks. Tree slugs, earwigs and woodlice were more evident, allowing me to round out my standard woodlouse list with Oniscus asellus. 

Also another Dromius quadrimaculatus, the arboreal and nocturnal ground beetle which I always expect to see on a tree trunk somewhere.

The first moth of the year, at last, was this Chestnut low down on a tree trunk

A routine find on vertical surfaces, especially trees, is the harvestman Oligolophus hanseni. This is a fairly recent addition but I've found it during the early months in various places now.

More of a  surprise was this Hawthorn Shieldbug

The best for me of yesterday was during the day, though, with this Pachygnathus clercki. This isn't new to the reserve, but it was new for me. Cracking set of gnashers

With February coming to a close the invert list is now at 181, with some material still to examine. The spider list now looks like this:

1	spider	Agroeca proxima	A Spider
2	spider	Amaurobius fenestralis	Lace-webbed Spider
3	spider	Amaurobius similis	A laceweb spider
4	spider	Bathyphantes approximatus	A Linyphid spider
5	spider	Bathyphantes nigrinus	A Linyphiid spider
6	spider	Centromerita bicolor	A money spider
7	spider	Clubiona comta	A Clubionid spider
8	spider	Drapetisca socialis	A Linyphiid spider
9	spider	Drassodes cupreus	A ground spider
10	spider	Gnathonarium dentatum	A money spider
11	spider	Helophora insignis	A money spider
12	spider	Larinioides cornutus	An orb weaver
13	spider	Macrargus rufus	A money spider
14	spider	Metellina mengei	An Orb Weavng Spider
15	spider	Monocephalus fuscipes	A money spider
16	spider	Neriene clathrata	Herb Hammock Spider
17	spider	Neriene montana	A money spider
18	spider	Neriene peltata	A money spider
19	spider	Nuctenea umbratica	An orb weaver
20	spider	Ozyptilus trux	Crab Spider
21	spider	Pachygnatha clercki	A spider
22	spider	Pachygnatha degeeri	A Long-jawed Orb Weaver
23	spider	Tenuiphantes cristatus	A money spider
24	spider	Tenuiphantes mengei	A money spider
25	spider	Tibellus maritimus	A spider
26	spider	Xysticus cristatus	Crab Spider