Trap ID 46 Station Linné

Locality: SE, Öland, Mörbylånga kommun, Station Linné
GPS coordinates: WGS 84 decimal: 56.619528, 16.498101
Trap owner: Dave Karlsson
Habitat: Road-side in rural landscape

Staff at Station Linné maintained and emptied this trap, which was located on the research stations property. Dave Karlsson was the main trap attendant. The trap attracted considerable attention from both the media and the general public (see photographs below), largely because of its location at Station Linné, the research station that led the project. More photographs from the same site can be found below. Right-click the images and open them in a new tab to view them at a larger size, for example, to examine the vegetation in greater detail.

26 August 2019 – a memorable day for Station Linné. On this occasion, Swedens county governors visited our research station. The Swedish Insect Inventory Projects Malaise trap, located on the station grounds, attracted particular interest. In the photograph, project manager Dave Karlsson can be seen explaining both the trap—which is a Swedish invention—and the project itself to the county governors. The visit was organised at the initiative of Thomas Carlsson, County Governor of Kalmar County.

26 August 2019. County Governor Thomas Carlsson and project manager Dave Karlsson work together to empty the research stations Malaise trap.

Additional notes: 
The Malaise trap was emptied 16 times during 4 July 2018 and 31 December 2019. Each sample has a unique ID, with its corresponding trapping period (start and end dates) listed in the table below: