Terrestrial Fauna

General: (Invertebrates)

MethodReferenceLicence Required
  
Capture release:
  • McWilliam, S.J., 2000. Invertebrate Capture Techniques: Invertebrates Capture Methods and Techniques.
  • Invertebrate Link (JCCBI), 2002.  A Code of Conduct for Collecting Insects and Other Invertebrates.  British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 15(1), 1-6
  • Criteria Used to Define Significance of Invertebrate Habitat. Colin Plant Associates (UK) Consultant Entomologists Plant, C. (unpublished).
 
Site Quality: 
Transects: 
Light traps:
  • Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies, 2004.  Beginners Guide to Moth Trapping.
  • Sheppard, D.A. and Eyre, M.D., 1983.  Guidelines for county insect survey. Recording News Hancock Museum, 2: 14-17.
  • Pollard, E., 1977.  A method for assessing changes in the abundance of butterflies.
  • Pollard, E. and Yates, T., 1994.  Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and Conservation: The British Butterfly Monitoring Scheme.
  • Pollard, E. and Yates, T.J., 1995.  Monitoring butterflies for ecology and conservation.
  • The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). http://www.ukbms.org/methods.htm
  • Field Guidance Notes For Butterfly Transects. 
    http://www.ukbms.org/Downloads/UKBMS%20G2%20
    Transect%20field%20guidance%20%20notes.pdf
  • English Nature, 2005. Organising Surveys to Determine Site Quality for Invertebrates. A framework guide for Ecologists.
 

 

Insecta

MethodReferenceLicence Required
 
  • Spalding, A. and Parsons, M., 2004.  Light trap transects – a field method for ascertaining the habitat preferences of night-flying Lepidoptera, using Mythimna turca (Linnaeus 1761) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) as an example.  Journal of Insect Conservation8: 185-190.
  • Techniques for monitoring ladybirdshttp://www.ladybird-survey.org/UKladybirds/monitoring.htm
  • SYRPH. The Net database of European hoverflies. www.iol.ie/~millweb/syrph/syrphid.htm
  • Speight, M.C.D. and Castella, E., 2001.  An approach to interpretation of lists of insects using digitised biological information about the species.  Journal of Insect Conservation.  5: 131–39.
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Arachnids

MethodReferenceLicence Required
 
  • Edited by Russel-Smith, A., 2008. British Arachnological Society Members' Handbook.
No

 

Saproxylic

MethodReferenceLicence Required
 No