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Weather during count overcast with
strong southerly wind over camp,
not a few times then briefly
Meter Plot No. 1
(First Scan)
Date July 8, 1952
A. Barrow, Alaska
Hurd
at a replicate can
stained 8 Tipulid adults
7 spiders 1 chrysoloma
subboulcata A44 / pupae;
small humps in which
most of diptera taken
intervening areas outside,
staphs + collembola.
Can count: 1 fungivoid; 1 cecidomyid ; 3 Staphylinids; 12 spiders;
50 collembola
Surface fauna: 1 Tachinid, 15 Fungivoids; 5 Ephydrids;
7 spiders. 1 cecidomyid. Replicates gave quantitatively
the same levels except no more Tachinids this replicate
with 1 anthomyid in front 1 5 replicates. Chrysoloma
subboulcata approximated 1 per 4-5 sq. meters and then only
in Petasites area. Hymenoptera probably repressed
due to poor sun light.
29
Berlese sample: 7 mm of collembola & mites in vial
8 x 90 mm - saved
7
Vegetation notes: Petasites flowers open wide - at adjacent
polygon a few "red-tailed" Bombus visiting flowers.
Remarks: Longspurs actively feeding in this polygon