| Watford Garden | |
| This recording site is a domestic garden in Watford town centre.
Although small, measuring only 14 by 7 metres, it contains a variety of habitats and serves to illustrate what
can be found in what at first might appear to be an unpromising situation. Most of the area is occupied by a lawn which
is maintained using a rotary lawnmower so that a variety of wild plants can survive. e.g. Plantago, Trifolium
and Taraxacum. Cuttings from the lawn are used to maintain a 'hot' compost heap specifically for sampling
Coleoptera. Shrub beds flank the lawn on two sides and contain a mixture of species that might be found in any
similar situation e.g. Viburnum, Buddleja, Chamomelia, Pieris, Arbutus and an ornamental Thuja.
Leaf litter is allowed to accumulate so providing material for extraction. Various sampling methods are used throughout
the year e.g. UV light, pitfalling, sweeping and beating. Yellow pan traps containing Brassica extracts
(Cabbage traps) are left out in the summer and during the dryest times the lawn is occasionally vacuumed.
The site is sheltered on all sides by brick walls and fences and on these sticky strips are occasionally attached.
During 2007 carrion traps had to be abandoned following complaints from neighbours.
Pictures supplied by Conall Murray (Junior member) |
| Species List | Comments | |
| Aderidae | ||
| Aderus populnius | Anthicidae | |
| Omonadus floralis | ||
| Apionidae | ||
| Perapion violaceum | ||
| Protapion fulvipes | ||
| Byphilidae | ||
| Diplocoelus fagi | ||
| Byturidae | ||
| Byturus tomentosus | ||
| Cantharidae | ||
| Cantharis cryptica | ||
| Rhagonycha fulva | ||
| Carabidae | ||
| Acupalpus parvulus | ||
| Amara aenea | ||
| Amara apricaria | ||
| Asaphidion curtum | ||
| Bembidion lunulatum | ||
| Bembidion tetracolum | ||
| Bradycellus harpalinus | ||
| Bradycellus verbasci | ||
| Curtonotus aulicus | ||
| Dromius quadrimaculatus | ||
| Harpalus rufipes | ||
| Nebria brevicollis | ||
| Notiophillus biguttatus | ||
| Notiophillus substriatus | ||
| Ocys harpaloides | ||
| Ophonus puncticeps | ||
| Ophonus rufibarbis | ||
| Pterostichus madidus | ||
| Trechus quadristriatus | ||
| Cerambycidae | ||
| Grammoptera ruficornis | ||
| Phymatodes testaceus | ||
| Chrysomelidae | ||
| Gastrophysa polygoni | ||
| Gastrophysa viridula | ||
| Longitarsus jacobaeae | ||
| Oulema obscura | ||
| Pyrrhalta viburni | ||
| Sphaeroderma testaceum | ||
| Ciidae | ||
| Octotemnus glabriculus | ||
| Coccinellidae | ||
| Adalia bipunctata | ||
| Adalia decempunctata | ||
| Calvia quattuordecimguttata | ||
| Clitostethus arcuatus | ||
| Coccinella septempunctata | ||
| Harmonia axyridis | ||
| Harmonia quadripunctatus | ||
| Myrrha octodecemguttata | ||
| Rhyzobius litura | ||
| Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata | ||
| Colydiidae | ||
| Aulonium trisulcus | ||
| Curculionidae | ||
| Barypeithes pellucidus | ||
| Ernoporus fagi | ||
| Euophryum confine | ||
| Otiorhyncus singularis | ||
| Otiorhyncus sulcatus | ||
| Phyllobius pyri | ||
| Sitona lineatus | ||
| Dermestidae | ||
| Dermestes ater | ||
| Dermestes haemorrhoidalis | ||
| Dermestes lardarius | ||
| Dermestes peruvianus | ||
| Elateridae | ||
| Athous bicolor | ||
| Kibunea minuta | Helophoridae | |
| Helophorus aequalis | ||
| Helophorus brevipalpis | ||
| Helophorus grandis | ||
| Heteroceridae | ||
| Heterocerus fenestratus | ||
| Hydrophilidae | ||
| Cercyon haemorrhoidalis | ||
| Cercyon laminatus | ||
| Cercyon melanocephalus | ||
| Cercyon pygmaeus | ||
| Cryptopleurum subtile | ||
| Hydrobius fuscipes | ||
| Megasternum concinnus | ||
| Latridiidae | ||
| Cartodere nodifer | ||
| Leiodidae | ||
| Leptinus testaceus | ||
| Nitidulidae | ||
| Meligethes aeneus | ||
| Phalacridae | ||
| Leptinus testaceus | ||
| Olibrus corticalis | ||
| Stilbus testaceous | ||
| Ptinidae | ||
| Dryophilus pusillus | ||
| Ernobius mollis | ||
| Lasioderma serricorne | ||
| Ptinus sexpunctatus | ||
| Stegobium panaceum | ||
| Scarabaeidae | ||
| Amphimallon solsticiale | ||
| Aphodius fossor | ||
| Aphodius haemorrhoidalis | ||
| Aphodius rufipes | ||
| Aphodius sphacelatus | ||
| Salpingidae | ||
| Salpingus planirostris | ||
| Staphylinidae | ||
| Anotylus rugosus | ||
| Bolitochara lucida | ||
| Othius punctulatus | ||
| Gabrius splendidulus | ||
| Lithocharis ochracea | ||
| Nehemitropia lividipennis | ||
| Philonthus politus | ||
| Proteinus brachypterus | ||
| Quedius curtipennis | ||
| Quedius fuliginosus | ||
| Stenus nanus | ||
| Stenus ossium | ||
| Stenus picipes | ||
| Tachyporus crysomelinus | ||
| Tachyporus hypnorum | ||
| Tasgius ater | ||
| Xantholinus linearis | ||
| Xantholinus longiventris | ||
| Tenebrionidae | ||
| Alphitobius diaperinus | ||
| Lagria hirta | ||
| Prionychus ater | ||
| Tenebrio molitor | ||
| Throscidae | ||
| Trixagus carinifrons | ||