Coronavirus Disease Update – AGM, Field Meetings and Recording
The current situation with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) means that species recording will be compromised for some time. No record merits disobeying government regulations, becoming unwell or possibly infecting others.
The planned field meetings in Devon in June and Ayrshire in July have been postponed (hopefully to 2021).
The AGM and Members’ Weekend, which were to be held on 26-27 September 2020, have been postponed until autumn 2021, in accordance with amendments to the Constitution approved by the General Committee on 3 April 2020. Financial Statements and Officer’s Reports will be printed in the autumn Newsletter, assuming this is possible.
In the meantime, Members are encouraged to keep more detailed records in their own gardens or local area, perhaps recording everything they see, or targeting one species and recording every observation, not just the first of even common and under-recorded taxa. This would provide a data pattern we don't currently have.
Members can contact Officers of the Society as usual.
Your safety, and that of the wider community, is our priority.
The majority of species now have distribution maps on their profile pages.
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For further infomation about maps and species concepts go HERE
The BWARS website contains pages for each British and Irish species of bee, wasp and ant. Most pages contain a detailed account, photos, distribution map, life history and conservation status. Features such as videos and identification advice are being added over time.
You can find species accounts in three ways
During the Coronavirus crisis, members are encouraged to keep more detailed records in their own gardens or local area, perhaps recording everything they see, or targeting one species and recording every observation, not just the first of even common and under-recorded taxa. This would provide a data pattern we don't currently have.
