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Yesterday I submitted 1204 (925 distinct) biological records to various local record centres and nationwide record collators. Big bias towards Hymenoptera (968) but some Coleoptera (225) and Hemiptera, all in all 305 species.
Here's an awful map of the number of records per site, where the size of the circle corresponds to the number of records. You can probably figure where I went to uni and where I currently live.
Records date between 2014-2020, with 2020 being the most productive. There's an under-grad and masters degree in there somewhere...
In terms of bee subfamilies recorded, Halictines were definitely most recorded with Andreninae following close behind. Some nice records in here, including Nomada zonata and Heriades truncorum from several sites in Sussex, including my garden
Aculeate wasps now, big crabronid bias (all those Crossocerus and Ectemnius!) but its nice to have some Pomilids in there too, a tricky group, highlight would definitely be Aporus unicolor (Pompilinae) a specialist of the purse-web spider
Ants (the best), big Myrmicinae and Formicinae bias of course. Highlights would be Myrmica lobicornis new to Anglesey, Solenopsis fugax, some nice Ponera records and two new ants to Britain.
Beetles, not graphed but there were 34 families recorded, big shift towards carabidae, with my favourite being Aepus marinus. So much fun entomologising/bug bothering these last few years, I look forward to what I can record in the future! Maybe I should look at some parasitica..
