Hi all
I organise the Tachinid Recording Scheme along with Chris Raper. I've been looking through the WAB
Gallery and there are lots of photos of Tachinid flies like Tachina grossa or Tachina fera in the
Gallery, but very few of them have sighting details with them.
We would like to add these records to our database to increase our knowledge of the distribution of these flies, but to do this we need a few "standard" bits of information so that we can input a "complete" record at our end.
What we would like - for each picture - is:
Who - your name or your WAB forum name
Where - where did you take the photo - a site name and site reference, either a grid reference or postcode so we can map the record correctly. Doesn't have to be down to the last metre, but the more accurate the better.
When - the date you took the picture
Photo - a link to the photo so we can see we are dealing with the right species.
We try to keep reasonably current distribution maps on the Tachind Recording Scheme website, the most recent map for Tachina fera can be seen here, and we send our data off to the NBN Gateway so it can be mapped there as well.
I'm hoping to get plenty of records from WAB members. If you are happy to post your records details to this thread I can get the info from here. As my WAB PM in box only has room for 10 messages, the other option is to e-mail me at
mat_smith1@hotmail.com.