LockdownApril: Highlights of BestMonthEver for LepiMAP
Lockdown April (April 2020) produced a lot of interesting butterfly records for LepiMAP: Two-pip Policeman Coeliades pisistratus, Nomad Dart Andronymus neander ...
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Lowdown on LepiMAP: Butterflies of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape
The lowdown on progress with LepiMAP (butterflies) in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. Overall species richness. Species richness in past year. When was each...
BirdPixing blues: look up and see birds
This is the bluest photo in the whole of BirdPix. And there have been dozens like it since the start of the lockdown in South Africa on Friday 27 March. The the...
BirdPix in KwaZulu-Natal
This blog deals with progress with BirdPix, with maps showing overall species richness, species richness in the past 12 months, and the date of last record in e...
BirdPix in the five northern provinces: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West and Free State
This blog covers BirdPix progress up toApril 2020 in the five northern provinces of South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West and Free State. There...
BirdPix progress in the three “Capes”
This blog covers BirdPix the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. For each province, it answers three questions: (1) How well is BirdP...
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BioMAPping at Home – Lock down on Biodiversity
These are trying times for all of us. It can be hard to stay focused, it can be hard to stay positive, but there are ways we can make the lockdown more bearable...
BDInsight – March 2020
BestMarch for the Virtual Museum Awesome citizen science teamwork for March 2020. Together we achieved BestMarch late on the evening of 30 March 2020! Now we ha...
BDInsight – February 2020
First BDI Citizen Science Conference, Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve, Hanover The really important things at conferences happen outside of the formal programme. Th...
Cryptic Spreadwing (Lestes dissimulans)
The photo above (by Marita Beneke) can be viewed in OdonataMAP here. Lestes dissimulans is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae, the spreadwings. ...