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6.4.5 Invertebrate sampling
6.4.5.1 Invertebrate pitfall trapping
Preliminary identifications to order level are provided in Table 25.
Table 25. Summary of ground-dwelling invertebrates.
Order Common name Plot 1 Plot 8 Plot 15 Plot 30 Plot 52
Araneae spiders 61 70 56 30 27
Acari mites 0 0 5 0 2
Anoplura sucking lice 0 5 0 32 0
Blatteria cockroaches 2 15 18 3 23
Chilopoda centipedes 2 1 0 0 16
Coleoptera beetles 24 41 41 97 86
Collembola springtails 1 5 1 40 7
Dermaptera earwigs 1 4 0 0 1
Diplopoda millipedes 2 10 0 28 1
Diptera flies 2 1 15 12 17
Heteroptera true bugs 15 13 29 11 4
Homoptera true bugs 3 6 4 3 2
Hymenoptera bees, wasps, ants etc. 100 1162 310 182 269
Isoptera termites 0 2 5 0 3
Isopoda wood lice 2 2 2 2 14
Mantodea mantids 1 0 1 0 0
Opiliones harvestman 0 12 0 1 12
Orthoptera crickets & grasshoppers 42 67 26 26 106
Pseudoscorpiones pseudoscorpions 0 1 1 0 0
Scorpiones scorpions 1 1 1 0 0
Symphylan symphylids 0 0 1 0 0
Thysanoptera bristletails 2 1 0 0 17
6.4.5.2 Malaise trapping
Preliminary identifications to order level are provided in Table 26.
Table 26. Summary of malaise captured invertebrates.
Order Common name Plot 8 Plot 15 Plot 30 Plot 52
Araneae spiders 0 4 0 3
Blatteria cockroaches 0 0 1 0
Coleoptera beetles 36 16 23 24
Diptera flies 293 19 81 39
Ephemeroptera mayflies 1 0 0 0
Heteroptera true bugs 0 1 1 1
Homoptera true bugs 33 3 17 27
Hymenoptera bees, wasps, ants etc. 85 14 40 14
Lepidoptera butterflies & moths 50 22 17 20
Orthoptera crickets & grasshoppers 4 0 2 0
Plecoptera stoneflies 21 0 0 0
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