Overall records progress
The numbers of records being submitted via iRecord and the other sites that share the same data warehouse continues to increase, as does the number of verifications being carried out, records incorporated into recording scheme datasets and shared via the NBN Atlas. A very big thank you to everyone who has contributed records and verifications.
We are also pleased to note the publication of Cambridgeshire’s mosses & liverworts – a dynamic flora by ex-BRC botanists Chris Preston and Mark Hill. Based on a survey undertaken by local bryologists between 2000 and 2018, Preston and Hill exhaustively analyse and report on Cambridgeshire’s bryoflora.
BRC is working with Rothamsted Research and Butterfly Conservation to produce updated moth trends for UK macro-moths using the extensive data from the light trap network that forms part of Rothamsted Research’s Insect Survey. The light trap network monitors nocturnal moths across the UK, using a collection of standardised moth traps that are run every night of the year.
Article by Liam Taylor | Data Manager | The Beautiful Burial Ground Project
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Bee-flies are familiar springtime insects, often seen hovering over flowers such as primroses, and using their long proboscis to feed on nectar. They are rather cute and cuddly looking flies! However, their life-cycle is not entirely benign, as they lay their eggs near the nest burrows of solitary mining bees, and the bee-fly larvae make their way into the bees' nests, where the bee-fly takes over the nest and feeds on its contents.
2019 is International Year of the Fly, with lots of events and activities planned. To find out more, go to the new Dipterists Forum website, which has been developed and hosted by BRC in partnership with Dipterists Forum. There is plenty of #YearoftheFly activity from the Diptera recording schemes as well.
Click on the links below to see the presentations and reports from discussions
Earlier in November BRC organised a meeting of sawfly recorders, to share ideas about how we can support the existing national recording scheme to further interest in, and recording of, sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). This was held at the Angela Marmont Centre of the Natural History Museum, and also served to celebrate the launch of a new NHM guide to sawflies in genus Tenthredo.
