Most of the year has been spent actually looking for beetles, although it's a given that leaf litter sieving, tussocking and beating gorse and conifers will produce plenty of other inverts.
I've only found two Stenus species so far this year though there are 8 on the reserve list. The one below, S.juno, is more or less identifiable from this picture - all black legs, keeled tergites, ridge on the head with channels either side and the relative lengths of back leg bits. That's one of two beetle additions to the list so far, the other being Carabus problematicus (I actually thought both of these were already on the list). You can almost always get more than one species of Stenus out of a tussock and depending on the location (woodland/pondside) the species make up will differ. Maybe a worthwhile study if I ever stopped racing about trying to look at everything (so probably never, then).
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| Stenus juno |
The beetles so far
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