Non-GBIF Data

UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS)

The United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) is one of the longest running insect monitoring schemes in the world. The scheme began in 1976 and now records data on over 3,000 sites per year; incorporating traditional butterfly transects, Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS), and targeted surveys

The UKBMS monitoring scheme data is available as an occupancy dataset on GBIF. In addition to the occupancy data available via GBIF annual analysis outputs such as species abundance indices and species abundance trends, are produced annually. These annual analysis outputs are available to download from the UKCEH Environmental Inforamtion Data Centre (EIDC). The raw count data from the monitoring scheme is available on request from the UKBMS.

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (UK PoMS)

The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to establish how insect pollinator populations are changing across the UK. UK PoMS was started in 2017 and runs two main surveys; Flower-Insect Time Counts (FIT counts) and systematic 1km square surveys. UK PoMS is a partnership funded jointly by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) (through funding from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for Northern Ireland).

The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme data from the first sie years (2017 to 2022) are available to download from the UKCEH Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC).

BeeWalk Survey Scheme

BeeWalk is a national recording scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to collect data to monitor the abundance of bumblebees on transects across Britain. This data collection would be impossible without volunteer BeeWalkers, who identify and count the bumblebees they see on a monthly walk (a fixed route of around 1 to 2 km - you choose where it goes) from March to October.