Hello, I've decided I'm going to give this a shot, mainly due to having found out that there are two quite nice national parks only 2 hours away (in different directions). So At some point in the up coming months I am heading to Galloway Forest Park and Northumberland National Park.
I would like to try and target nitens, glabratus and granulatus. I know these species prefer damp areas ranging from muddy burns for granulatus to sphagnum bog for nitens. And I know winter collecting involves attacking soft rotten logs...but the problem is you don't tend to get wood near sphagnum bog and rarely near muddy burns, so do the carabus migrate to find them or do you have to just keep hacking away until you get lucky?
Also I'll take the oppurtunity to spy good places to put out pitfalls in the spring
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Hello, I've decided I'm going to give this a shot, mainly due to having found out that there are two quite nice national parks only 2 hours away (in different directions). So At some point in the up coming months I am heading to Galloway Forest Park and Northumberland National Park.
I would like to try and target nitens, glabratus and granulatus. I know these species prefer damp areas ranging from muddy burns for granulatus to sphagnum bog for nitens. And I know winter collecting involves attacking soft rotten logs...but the problem is you don't tend to get wood near sphagnum bog and rarely near muddy burns, so do the carabus migrate to find them or do you have to just keep hacking away until you get lucky?
Also I'll take the oppurtunity to spy good places to put out pitfalls in the spring
Thanks
Matt
sanity is madness put to good use