Impacts of Rhodes on Biodiversity 3 : Common Starling
This is the third and final blog in this series on the impacts of Rhodes on biodiversity. The first blog talked about the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The second cove...
Category: Virtual Museum
Online guide to the Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions) of southern Africa
There are 13 families in southern Africa. Here are the first seven. Coniopterygidae (Dusty-winged Lacewings) Hemerobiidae (Brown Lacewings) Chrysopidae (Green L...
BirdPix on a run in 2021
BirdPix is important because it is going to be used to test whether “species distribution models” can be used to generate maps that look like the bi...
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...
Starting from scratch : OdonataMAP in 2021
We lost all the data***. Now we need to be starting from scratch! This is not such a crazy idea. It is so easy to think. I know that the Red-veined Dropwing has...
Progress with BirdPix in the Free State during 2020
We will slowly work out way through projects and provinces! We have done BirdPix in the Western Cape. This map shows the number of bird species recorded for Bir...
Refreshment dip into Yzerfontein during lockdown
“Starting in my home grid cell on 1 January 2021, I will upload records to the Virtual Museum of as many species as possible (and I will be especially careful n...
BDInsight – Festive Season 2020/21
A very Happy New Year to each and everyone of you. It is hard to believe that 2020 is behind us and 2021 has started. The world is still in the grips of Covid-1...
Progress with BirdPix in the Western Cape during 2020
This is planned to be the first of many similar blogs. We are starting with an easy project, BirdPix, in my home province, Western Cape. It is still a bit exper...
Fundamentals of Citizen Science, a BDI course
During 2021, the BDI will offer a course called "Fundamentals of Citizen Science".