Website forms and recording
a national and Essex map for all species - just from a distributional point of view many people
probably do not realise just how useful their record may be in filling in an unrecorded area.
There is a clear need to encourage a wider public to help record and appreciate our flora and fauna,
and what better way to reach people in this day and age than by the internet. Mainly due to the
interests of the author invertebrate species have been well represented on the website. How ever the
facility should be made available in other groups wherever it is felt that the quality of resultant data
will make a survey worthwhile. Although our voluntary status and limitations on our time constrain
the amount we can attempt, we should pursue this method of reaching a wider public.
References
HARVEY, P.R. (2004) Essex Field Club website forms. Essex Field Club Newsletter 45: 15-16
HARVEY, P.R., NELLIST, D.R. & TELFER, M..G. (eds) (2002) Provisional atlas of British spiders
(Arachnida, Araneae), Volumes I & 2. Huntingdon: Biological Records Centre
KORYSZKO, J. (2004) A further note and records of the continued spread of the Lily Beetle in Britain.
Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists'Society 63: 111-112
PLATNICK, N.I. (2004) The WorldSpider Catalog, Version 5.0. American Museum of Natural History.
New York. Internet version: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/
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