Since March 2009, the study of insects that inhabit the forest canopy has a space in the Collserola Park, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. As a pioneering study in the Iberian Peninsula, almost everything is a surprise in relation to phenology and composition of groups and species in the Mediterranean mixed forest. In addition to traditional sampling by Malaise traps, each month I tracked continuously for 48 hours, watching the peaks of activity of insect groups during the day and night, to determine vertical migrations between the canopy and the understory, strata preferences, etc.
Jorge Mederos (Zoology Museum of Barcelona)