Gorseinon

Very interesting table George which inspired me to do the same for our garden records here in Gorseinon. We moved in in 1996 and our first trapping session was on 3rd Aug. Excluding partial results from 1996, trapping effort averages out at 51 nights per year, with an average species tally of 301. Our maximum effort was in 2000 when we ran the trap (an 125w Robinson) 82 times, but our highest total was in 2006 when 389 species were trapped, a vintage year!

During 2011 we only managed to run the trap on 36 nights, but did add another 16 species to our total. I wonder what the total would have been if we'd made a bigger effort, it may have come close to 2006? So far our total for 2012 stands at 0, but I'm sure there will be more species to add to the garden list and hopefully a few surprises. I'll be dusting off the cobwebs when the wind drops for sure...

Year	trap nights	Species*	New Species*
1996	20	196	196
1997	40	328	193
1998	42	236	26
1999	51	325	59
2000	82	363	41
2001	70	333	25
2002	74	298	23
2003	57	342	25
2004	50	281	16
2005	48	308	21
2006	62	389	41
2007	41	218	2
2008	45	277	14
2009	39	276	8
2010	24	226	3
2011	36	311	16
	Average	Average	Total*
	51	301	709
*spp agg., etc not filtered out, actual total around 680.