Table 1 Monthly variations in population density of insect, pseudoscorpion and spider fauna in Thymelaea hirsuta samples at two different natural sites in the EgyptianWestern Desert, in 1990
Date | Semi-arid site (Gharbaniat) | Arid site (Omayed) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total n | % of total | Total n | % of total | |||||
Insects | Non-insects | Insects | Non-insects | |||||
Pseudo-scorpions | Spiders | Pseudo-scorpions | Spiders | |||||
January | 273.0 | 86.4 | 7.3 | 6.1 | 302.0 | 99.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
February | 266.0 | 86.4 | 4.8 | 8.4 | 302.0 | 98.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
March | 188.0 | 82.5 | 8.2 | 9.3 | 312.0 | 98.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
April | 197.0 | 88.8 | 3.5 | 7.6 | 237.0 | 93.7 | 0.0 | 4.6 |
May | 155.0 | 73.4 | 14.6 | 12.0 | 165.0 | 94.2 | 1.1 | 4.2 |
June | 217.0 | 65.3 | 14.7 | 19.8 | 35.0 | 74.3 | 0.0 | 25.7 |
July | 406.0 | 93.1 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 33.0 | 90.9 | 0.0 | 9.1 |
August | 108.0 | 78.3 | 11.1 | 10.2 | 35.0 | 80.0 | 3.3 | 16.7 |
September | 47.0 | 68.8 | 9.6 | 21.3 | 104.0 | 84.5 | 4.6 | 10.6 |
October | 258.0 | 89.0 | 4.4 | 6.6 | 63.0 | 75.3 | 5.1 | 19.6 |
November | 283.0 | 91.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 191.0 | 95.3 | 0.0 | 4.7 |
December | 440.0 | 94.6 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 206.0 | 98.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 |