Links to External Citizen Science Projects 

(Not run by us and suitable for more advanced recorders)

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

PoMS is the only scheme in the world generating regular and orderly data on the abundance of bees, hoverflies and other flower-visiting insects at a national scale (currently across England, Wales and Scotland). There are two surveys you can take part in - watching specific flowers for 10 minutes and recording the insects that visit the flower, or adopting a designated 1 km² survey square where you trap and record the insects present. Combined with records from other schemes, these data will allow us to measure trends in pollinator populations and guide where to target conservation efforts.

National Moth Recording Scheme

You can use the National Moth Recording Scheme to enter, store, map and analyse your own moth records. You’ll also be able to see what other recorders have observed in your area and around the country. Moth records entered online will be passed to the appropriate County Moth Recorders for verification and incorporation into local datasets, before becoming part of the main National Moth Recording Scheme database.

Garden Butterfly Survey

The Garden Butterfly Survey allows you to record and report the butterflies that visit your garden over the course of a year. Create a free account, submit your sightings and help us monitor garden butterfly populations. The more we learn, the better we can target conservation effort to help struggling butterfly species.

BeeWalk Survey Scheme

BeeWalk is a national recording scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to monitor the abundance of bumblebees across the country.  Volunteers identify and count the bumblebees seen on a monthly walk along a set route from March to October.  Anyone can become a BeeWalker – all you need is a spare hour or so every month to walk a fixed route of about a mile (you choose where it goes), and then send us your sightings.