With the year coming to a close I would like to take this
chance to thank everybody who has contributed to recording in Wexford during
the year. This has been our best year ever!
For once we have nearly kept up with the inputting of the
records collected during 2015. This has been a phenomenal year for the county
as to date just over 80,000 records have been entered into MapMate, that is
24,000 up on our best year, which was in 2014. Hopefully 2016 will see an
increase in recording in the county, especially in the northern half which is
lagging behind, there are still many tetrads with no records or less than 50
species recorded. In the southern half of the county all tetrads have had at
least one monad visited, and in the SW corner of the county from New Ross south
to the Hook and east ward across to Wellingtonbridge nearly every monad has
been visited. 2015 also saw our best
ever total of species recorded in a monad on a single visit, 270. This was at Blackwater T1234.
Of the list
of 199 species not reported since 2000 in the county, 22 were re-found.
52 new
species were added to the county list, of these 10 were native, 35 were garden
escapes or dumped from gardens and surviving, and the other 7 are rare casuals.
Of the 10 new native species 8 are hybrids.
August had
the largest number of records collected for a month, 14,699, followed by
October with 12,145. All months apart from December saw over 1000 records
collected.
The map below shows all the monads (black squares) with records.
