Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 36/1. (2016)

Zoology

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Fig. 1: Map - The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (JBWR) (Gateway National Recreation Area).

in the National Park System, is also home to an impressive array of native vertebrates. Many reptiles and amphibians call the park home. Mammals also prosper here, with evenings the best time to observe raccoons, opossums, and muskrats on their nightly forays (Cook & Pinnock, 1989). In spring, tree frogs such as Spring Peepers and Gray Tree Frogs, breed in shallow pools, while snakes such as the Black Racer, Garter Snake, and Brown Snake hunt the park woodlands. In refuge there is one of the largest populations of horseshoe crabs in the Northeast. A total of 81 fish species were recorded in Jamaica Bay. More than 60 species of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Insecta), belong to the families Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Libytheidae, Nymphalidae, Satyridae, Danaidae, Hesperiidae, restricted to one or more habitat types have been observed by researchers in this refuge (Ingraham et al. 1989). The research was effectuated in variety types of habitats and in their microhabitats in the vegetative season of 2008—2009. During field work were used pitfall traps, consists of plastic jars (08 cm diameter by 10 cm deep) and some pitfall traps constructed by author, which were buried in the ground even with the soil surface and filled with a solution of white vinegar (100 ml. in each trap). These traps were installed in the spring, summer and autumn in wet and dry habitats and along the border of standing water. Beetles also were collected by sifter and by hand from a variety of habitats. Some adults and larvae come to bait, other were hand captured from mushrooms, margins of ponds, in leaf-litter,

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