Butterfly Records

Members of the branch have been recording butterflies since it was formed in 1985. The data is mainly stored in a Levana database, and records are passed onto the national Butterflies for the New Millennium scheme organised by Butterfly Conservation.

The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland published in 2001 used data for the period 1995-1999. We are currently at the end of the following five year recording period (2000-2004) and will be producing an update to the Atlas in 2005.

We are also hoping to publish an Atlas of the butterflies of south west Scotland in late 2005.

Not all data has been added to the database yet, but currently there are approx 14,000 records. As you can see, coverage is far from complete. Can you help fill the gaps?

All records 2000-2004

We welcome all records of butterflies from south west Scotland. Recent records are particularly useful, but older records may help fill gaps in our data, and so will be gratefully received. Even single records will be useful, even if of common species.

Records will be accepted in any format. You can download a Scottish recording form here.

BNM Casual Record Sheet SW Scotland Click a link below - you will be prompted for a location where you wish to save the file. Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) 69KB Microsoft Word format (DOC) 130KB   If you download the Adobe Acrobat® PDF file then you must have the Adobe Acrobat® Reader program in order to view\print the document. If you do not have this program it is freely available at www.adobe.com/acrobat

The Branch area covers Argyll & Bute, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Stirling, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries & Galloway (VC73 73 74 75 76 77 86 98 99 100 101 102 103).

Please send any records to:

Richard Sutcliffe
68 Rowan Drive
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 3HJ
Tel: 0141 942 1563