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Category: LepiMAP

Archive/Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/OdonataMAp/Virtual Museum

The Virtual Museum

Posted on 07/06/2021 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity research and mapping projects. This innovative concept was or...

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

How do you refresh a butterfly? You LepiMAP it in 2021!

Posted on 13/02/2021 by Les Underhill

The take home message of this blog is one of disappointment! But the reality is that we have never looked at the butterflies in LepiMAP in this way before. Beca...

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Citizen Science Week #1 from 19 to 27 September 2020: LepiMAP in South Africa, eSwatini and Lesotho

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Les Underhill, Karis Daniel & Megan Loftie-Eaton

LepiMAP is the Atlas of African Lepidoptera. LepiMAP is one of the sections of the Virtual Museum. From September 2020, the project has been hosted jointly by t...

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Fanie Rautenbach’s Great LepiMAP Challenge 2020/21

Posted on 02/09/2020 by Les Underhill

Fanie Rautenbach has worked his way through the LepiMAP records for South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, has identified data gaps, and is challenging us to fill...

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BDInsight – July 2020

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Life in lockdown has become almost normal. I, for one, have lost count of the number of days we’ve been in lockdown here in South Africa. We adapt to the ...

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BioMAPping in Lockdown – Peter Small shares his experience

Posted on 03/06/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

It has been more than 65 days since lockdown began here in South Africa, but that has not stopped citizen scientists from biomapping! We have been overwhelmed b...

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Mozart moth: Variations on a theme

Posted on 04/05/2020 by Les Underhill

LepiMAP aims to atlas not only butterflies, but also moths. Which species of moth was recorded most frequently in LepiMAP during the lockdown period starting 27...

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LockdownApril: Highlights of BestMonthEver for LepiMAP

Posted on 01/05/2020 by Les Underhill

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

Posted on 14/04/2020 by Les Underhill

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...

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