SNH Invertebrate Site Condition Monitoring 2015-16: Culbin Sands, Culbin Forest and Findhorn Bay SSSI

This dataset was gathered as part of a Scottish Natural Heritage contract in 2015-16. It provides the results of invertebrate surveys designed to inform Site Condition Monitoring at Culbin Sands, Culbin Forest and Findhorn Bay SSSI. These surveys targeted the notified invertebrate assemblage feature (20 Diptera species of conservation concern: Chamaesyrphus caledonicus, Tipula (Odonatisca) nodicornis, Tetanocera freyi, Calobata stylifera, Rhadiurgus variabilis, Laphria flava, Pilaria meridiana, Orimarga juvenilis, Limonia (Dicranomyia) ventralis, Limonia (Dicranomyia) complicata, Helius pallirostris, Orthonevra geniculata, Didea fasciata, Oxycera pygmaea, Renocera striata, Pherbellia brunnipes, Gimnomera tarsea, Campsicnemus pectinulatus, Pseudopachychaeta approximatonervis and Phthiria pulicaria), but surveys for other invertebrate taxa were also undertaken.