Description
Nightly counts of moths and other insects from light traps run by volunteers, one of the longest such records in the region.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 56 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b8fe2d9ea16f11374e4324ee2d85d20396b1933c5b19820d0b121404ff672f86- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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
- None. Captured over the network.
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: Midland Natural History Society, Insect light-trap survey, Midland, 2007–2009 (2007–2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39415.