Indicia - The OPAL Online Biological Recording Toolkit. Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre — The Local Record Centre for Sussex. Recording & monitoring - Butterfly Conservation. Butterflies are extremely valuable indicators of the state of the environment. Butterfly Conservation runs schemes to record and monitor them which involve over 15,000 volunteer recorders. The data gathered in our world-renowned schemes is used by the Government to indicate the health of the environment at national, UK and European levels. The ongoing recording and monitoring programmes help us direct our conservation effort where it is needed.
It also helps us asses how effective current conservation work is. Anyone can take part, from butterfly beginners to experienced recorders. Butterflies for the New MillenniumThis survey assesses the distribution of each butterfly species across the British Isles. MapMate - UserZone: MyZone. MM-Users : Independent forum for MapMate(R) users. Butterfly Conservation - Sussex Branch - Sightings and News. Male Orange-tip seen this morning on my Copthorne delivery. (Chris Prince) On the A27, on the way to Friston Forest I saw a Small White at (TQ48210805). At Friston Forest I saw - Brimestone, two seen at (TQ51890030) also a single Red Admiral seen around about (TQ52050047) and one Peacock at (TQ52190032). Then later at Litlington Tea Gardens I saw one Small White and one Green-veined White both at (TQ52410176).
(Jamie Burston) Don't be fooled - all the butterflies were in Lancing today. 10 Brimstones, 4 Peacocks, 4 Small Tortoiseshells, 3 Orange Tips, 2 Speckled Woods, Comma, Small White. (Lindsay Morris) News for Saturday 29 March:Apart from a couple of Red Admirals seen whilst walking part of the Cuckoo Trail two weeks ago, I had not seen any butterflies this year. A male Brimstone seen flying through Coldean woods Brighton. Our first garden butterfly of the year here in Worthing (TQ 137039) was a Speckled Wood sunning itself on the wall of the house this afternoon. Friday 21 March 2014.