Oh geez! I am actually interested in this too! I am in rural sussex and I want to create a diverse bioactive with all the inverts that could live together
Do you know when it would be wise to go collecting? Currently seeing wasps making nests in my house. 🥲
Basically depending on what youre looking for, when its been optimal weather for those particular creatures for 2 days in a row is the best time. Like for isopods or snails who like moisture, go when its been raining and damp. If youre looking for moths itll need to be dry, and nighttime preferably with a full moon for lighting/moth navigation. if youre looking for diurnal inverts, go when its been sunny for a few days. at this point there are few things, only the first creatures that come in spring. lots of animals have seasons where they are far more common... so it will depend a lot. but just keep going out when its the weather you think the bugs will like, and try different times of day. morning, noon, afternoon, evening... different things come out at different times. it can even vary area to area! youll learn a lot by exploring as much as you can with good light to see by, often!
honestly all I am finding unwillingly are these black colored wasps breeding by the side of the house that gets heavily hit by the sun. Wasps only ever want to make nests there in areas that the sun hits directly. Its incredibly annoying, because I am a pansy. Haha. I really like the idea of making an ecosystem for just invertebrates in a largeish enclosure. Well relatively large.
Best spots are under wood things, like the wood cuttings in my lawn.
