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 Westbrook Bay and passed to Lazarus. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
40a864a05d729ce9b25403b4d0e355638b95d0b30dcafbcaa833b2428a0d5ed6- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Midland Natural History Society, Insect light-trap survey, Midland, 2010–2016 (2010–2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35298.