A survey of the saproxylic invertebrate fauna of the
Cadzow oaks parkland, South Lanarkshire, Scotland,
part of the Hamilton High Parks Site of Special
Scientific Interest, was undertaken between April 2017
and April 2018, with additional prior test trapping
having started in August 2016. Several different search
methodologies were utilised, including Owen
emergence traps, flight interception traps, hollow tree
traps, and rot hole traps. Large numbers of a non-target
group of insects - thrips (Order Thysanoptera) - were
noted in some of the traps from the first batch to be
examined and separated out for analysis. A total of 370
individuals from eight species was identified, with
85.1% of these thrips being collected by three Owen
emergence traps, a novel methodology for determining
the presence, or abundance, of dispersing Thysanoptera.
The majority (92.4%) of the thrips represented two
fungal-feeding phlaeothripid species, Hoplothrips
pedicularius and H. semicaecus. This is the first report
of H. semicaecus from Scotland.
