Elater ferrugineus
This is an unusual entry, in that this is the only one referring to something that ISN'T here !
I was asked to help on a monitoring project, run by a scientist based in Royal Holloway College, to check for the distribution of this click beetle. I set up 2 traps (as pictured below), complete with a pheromone lure (sex scent to attract the males int the trap) and checked them every day throughout July 2011, and found precisely nothing !
I will post the study findings when I have them, but as far as the Devenish is concerned, this study produced no sightings at all.
A small notice explaining what was going on, to anyone who found the trap
The pheromone lure was placed inside a small pot with holes in it, that was placed in the centre of the X-shaped plastic sheets.
Plastic sheets arranged in an X shape. The flying beetle would pursue the lure, bump into the plastic sheet and fall down into the pot below.
The pot into which any beetle would fall, and could be recorded later
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