(species names listed in Appendix A). Species richness was higher
inside the garden at an average of 4.2 (±1.7) species per site and
3.6 (±1.06) outside, but the difference was not significant (lmer,
21
=
0.69, P = 0.405).
There were three identifiable functional groups; scavengers,
predators and herbivores (Table 2). Fig. 4 shows that scavenger
beetles occurred in higher numbers within the gardens and predatory
beetles occurred in higher numbers outside. There was little
difference between the abundances of herbivorous beetles. Beetle
abundance differed significantly between the three functional