Description
Nightly counts of moths and other insects from light traps run by volunteers, one of the longest such records in the region.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Brookbridge and passed to Lazarus. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 22 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e0ede8979cb9ea287f17dad31876c9c8ded008d91875593941da40ffedbd07e8- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Three Rivers Natural History Society, Insect light-trap survey, Three Rivers, 1996–2003 (1996–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21966.