Butterfly Conservation runs schemes to monitor butterflies and moths which involve over 10,000 volunteer recorders across the UK. The data gathered in our world-renowned schemes is used by the Government to indicate the health of the environment at national, UK and European levels.

The on-going monitoring programme's help us direct our conservation effort where it is needed. It also helps us asses how effective current conservation work is and plan future conservation programs.

The vast majority of the records in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull come from dedicated volunteers and casual observers. Some volunteers conduct regular transect surveys over many years. Others send in site-based recording forms (Site Recording Form: (1,844kb)(54kb)) or provide us with casual records (Casual Recording Form: (1,750kb) (47kb)) of their observations while out in the countryside.

Other volunteers and members of the public use our online submission form to send us their butterfly and moth sightings. We welcome submissions from anyone where sightings occur within the Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull area. See map.

These records are processed and submitted to Butterfly Conservation HQ by our Warwickshire Branch Butterfly Recorder Keith Warmington to become part of Butterfly Conservation's national recording scheme.