The Virtual Museum
The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity research and mapping projects. This innovative concept was or...
Category: LepiMAP
How do you refresh a butterfly? You LepiMAP it in 2021!
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...
Citizen Science Week #1 from 19 to 27 September 2020: LepiMAP in South Africa, eSwatini and Lesotho
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...
Fanie Rautenbach’s Great LepiMAP Challenge 2020/21
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...
BDInsight – July 2020
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 ...
BioMAPping in Lockdown – Peter Small shares his experience
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...
Mozart moth: Variations on a theme
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...
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 ...
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...