pwhole
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Admittedly it is the only time I've ever seen them, and it's almost fifty years ago, so don't get too excited. There's a few people I know who have worked up there more recently, so I'll ask them.
Glow Worms
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Admittedly it is the only time I've ever seen them, and it's almost fifty years ago, so don't get too excited. There's a few people I know who have worked up there more recently, so I'll ask them.
Big Jim 1
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I might give them a call up there and possibly fit it in to next years surveys. Ive already added it to my 'to-do' list (which seems to grow rather than shrink).
pwhole
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I contacted Christine W, who said she hadn't seen them at Lockerbrook herself, but had seen plenty in Lathkill Dale, to the extent that NE were considering counting them. Maybe you already know that?
Big Jim 1
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Lathkill is well known and most folk just look at the Monyash end including Fern Dale down to Ricklow. I did the side dale north from Carter's Mill this year and found them there. Like I said earlier, mist of the Peak dales have them except a handful. Cant see NE staff going out counting them though as its a night time affair. They've had my records for all the other SSSI areas over the last few years. I just don't get chance to go back to sites as I mostly search unrecorded areas.
Martin Laverty
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Pretty much all you might want to know accessible at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143617-Lampyris-noctiluca
You can easily sign up and start recording your observations too - even speleo species....
You can easily sign up and start recording your observations too - even speleo species....
Big Jim 1
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No, please do not use iNaturalist to record Glow-worms. Its a crap system designed oversees where they have nothing else suitable. In the UK we have iRecord (the UK Biological Records Centre recording system) which is a far superior system. iNat provides totally useless/vague data on the whole and as such most of the iNat records dont get verified when migrated to iRecord and so dont end up on the NBN Atlas. The three of us who are the national record verifiers for Glow-worms really dont like iNat and I hear similar comments from county recorders of various taxa,
Martin Laverty
Member
With respect, your opinion of iNatualist (developed overseas, as you note, at University of California, Berkeley, but used worldwide not just in this septic isle) doesn't seem to entirely agree with the managers of iRecord itself which actually imports verified records from iNaturalistUK as described in https://irecord.org.uk/linking-inaturalist
iReport would seem to be a more professional tool than iNaturalist and be correspondingly less informative, and rather more daunting, to the more casual, yet interested, user which most of the participants in this topic would seem to be.
Just don't use both for the same records then...
alanw
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The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms
Glow worms are a rare sight in the UK but one young conservationist is trying to bring them back.
www.bbc.co.uk
