Dorset Moths

 

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All observations and comments published on the Dorset Moths Latest Sightings webpage or any other external website, especially with respect to notable and important Dorset moth records, are unconfirmed and remain so until the record is forwarded to and ratified by the appropriate county moth recorder.  For the benefit of moths, their conservation and to help improve our knowledge of their status and distribution, please forward your records! 

Sending your records in - towards the end of the year, please submit your records to the County recorders.  Records can then be assessed, and sent on to the DERC, and highlights included in the reports produced for this website.  Records can be sent in tabular form, a copy of the approved spreadsheet may assist in this respect.  Please do not assume that submitting to this website is sufficient, so please send your records to the email addresses below.

 

                    Details of moths caught and identified can be submitted on spreadsheet or word or excel document, and should include the following as a minimum:  

  •             Name of recorder

  •             Species

  •             Number seen

  •             Location with OS ref

  •             Date (if overnight light trap, the date the trap set rather than the date checked)

  •             For rare or unusual species, a photograph would be useful.

Record spreadsheet  - The spreadsheets for 2012 are now available, and are in several formats for download, so please download the appropriate ones for your use.  If there is any problem in downloading, please email webmaster and I will email them to you.

Excel 97 - 2003         Micro moths       Macro moths      Casual records

 

Excel 2007               Micro moths       Macro moths      Casual records

 

Open Office             Micro moths       Macro moths      Casual records

All records of  moths should be sent to the relevant Macro and Micro moth recorders, detailed below -replace [at] with @.

  • Macro moths - Les Hill on les[at]mklep.co.uk

  • Micro moths - Phil Sterling on pachyderm.mac[at]gmail.com

Website       

For any moth records of interest including photographs, articles, details of events for the website, please send to me at grampybustard[at]gmail.com  - replace [at] with @.

This site was last updated 12/30/11