Marbled White
Marbled White © Dave Gilbert
Steve Mathers has prepared two useful videos...

...to help beginners with their butterfly identification whilst those with some experience will also benefit.

Nottinghamshire Butterflies Part 1

Nottinghamshire Butterflies Part 2

Recording

Submitting Butterfly & Moth Records.

Records, even of the commonest species, are invaluable in helping us to understand the status and distribution of species on a national and local basis and help guide conservation work. Whilst garden records are useful, records from the wider countryside are especially valuable, particularly in under-recorded areas.

How and when to submit your records

The Nottinghamshire Butterfly County Recorder prefers records to be submitted via iRecord or app. See What about online submission and apps? below.

The County Recorders in Leics & Rutland and Derbyshire prefer to receive records via email.

For butterflies, a spreadsheet is ideal with these column headings:
Recorder Grid Ref. Site Date Species Number Habitat County
A. Recorder SK3539 Aston Brickyards 10/02/2016 Peacock 1 Brownfield Derbyshire

Further details e.g. male, female, larvae, pupae, ova etc. can be added in a notes column.

Ken Orpe (Derbyshire) and Richard Jeffery (Leicestershire and Rutland) would like to receive email records as often as is convenient. Just how often is your choice but every week or two has the advantage of allowing the recorders to share news of sightings, particularly of interesting species throughout the course of the year.

What about online submission and apps?

You may submit record via the "iRecord Website", you will need to create an account after which you may submit records for all your wildlife records in any part of the country. These records will then be sent on to the relevant County Recorder & Biological Records Office. There is an "iRecord Butterflies" app available for iPhone & iPad available on iTunes that can be used to submit records and photographs.

In Leicester and Rutland there is also NatureSpot. Records submitted in this way are forwarded to County Recorders, though this may not be until the end of the year.

Paper Submissions

Submissions may also be made on our Paper Recording Forms, these are usually distributed with the Spring Newsletter and are also available on our new Downloads Page. Please note these were revised for the 2015 season, so if using paper forms please use the updated versions.

Clouded Silver
Clouded Silver © Neil Pinder

Derbyshire

County Butterfly Recorder

Ken Orpe
Email: ken@malaga.plus.com

Send your records by email as often as is convenient for you.

County Micro Moth Recorder

Martin Gray
Email: martingray36@btinternet.com

Submit your records via iRecord or if you prefer a spreadsheet, please use the format below:

B.C Moth Officer (macros and micros)

Mick Ball
Tel: 07594 617047

Leicestershire & Rutland

County Butterfly Recorder

Richard Jeffery
Email: winrich168@btinternet.com
Tel. 01455 845112 Mob. 07803 599247

County Moth Recorder

Mark Skevington
Email vc55CMR@gmail.com

Nottinghamshire

County Butterfly Recorder

Steve Mathers
Email: smbutterflies11@gmail.com

County Moth Recorder (macros)

Sheila Wright
Email: Sheila.Wright@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

County Moth Recorder (micros)

Martin Gray
Email: martingray36@btinternet.com

Submit your records via iRecord or if you prefer a spreadsheet, please use the format below:

B.C Moth Officer (macros and micros)

Mick Ball
Tel: 07594 617047

Please use this format if submitting records via emailed spreadsheet to Martin Gray:
Vernacular Taxon Site GridRef VC Recorder Determiner Date Quantity Method Stage Status Comment
Optional Scientific Name Location Name eg:TG123456 Notts:56, Leics& Rutland:55 Name Optional dd/mm/yyyy eg: MV Trap optional do not use