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Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

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    keps
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    MMM...

    On first reading I thought they were looking for volunteers- but there are no details on how to get involved so maybe it is just a news piece.


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    couerdelion
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    keps wrote: »
    MMM...

    On first reading I thought they were looking for volunteers- but there are no details on how to get involved so maybe it is just a news piece.

    You can go to http://www.butterflyireland.com/butterfly_records_2013.htm and register and submit records.

    Possibly one of the worst websites I've ever seen but it seems to work fine for its purpose.


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    keps
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    couerdelion wrote: »
    You can go to http://www.butterflyireland.com/butterfly_records_2013.htm and register and submit records.

    Possibly one of the worst websites I've ever seen but it seems to work fine for its purpose.

    Thanks.


    It's a pretty shabby website ok.


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    SamSpade
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    Isn't the butterfly on the top left of the article actually a Wall Brown?


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    axe2grind
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    SamSpade wrote: »
    Isn't the butterfly on the top left of the article actually a Wall Brown?
    No that is a Speckled Wood, just an orangey looking one, but... the one they did get wrong is the Meadow Brown which is a Small Heath!

    As for the article, its nothing to do with butterfly Ireland which is run by the Dublin Naturalists Field Club, but the butterfly monitoring scheme run by the National Biodiversity Data Centre.

    The home page for the monitoring scheme is
    http://butterflies.biodiversityireland.ie/

    Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of a flow of records between the 2 organisations. A real waste of resources, I think. Biological recording is small enough in this country and surely cooperation between all parties involved would be a win win for everyone, especially the Butterflies.


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