The function of this page is to facilitate a rapid exchange of information, allowing other recorders to pick up on trends and encourage further recording. Please post news and photos of migrant butterflies, moths and dragonflies. The site may also be used to post extra-limital records of resident species that may relate to immigration, but we would urge caution in naming sites where a resident population may be present.

To view news or report sightings to flight arrivals click here or the logo opposite

If you have photographed a species that you are not able to identify feel free to use the Atropos photoforum to upload the photograph and seek the opinions of other recorders.

If you would like to report news for publication in Atropos without it appearing on this page e-mail news@atropos.info

We would ask recorders to follow these guidelines:

• Please think carefully before submitting information to this page. Will it cause problems with landowners/site managers? Is the species sensitive to human pressure? If in doubt just give the county/area rather than the site of the record.
  
• Though this page is regularly monitored, in the interests of making news available quickly information is not validated before it appears here. Inevitably this means that inaccurate information will appear from time to time. It is therefore important that information is not published without prior validation.
  
• For moth-trapping records please give the date the trap was switched on rather than the morning after.
  
• Please avoid swamping the site with reports of small numbers of common immigrant species when these species are appearing on a daily basis.
  
• Submitting information to this site is no substitution for sending your data to the county recorder. For a list of county moth recorders click here
  
• Whilst information included here will be considered for publication in Atropos, after checking details, please remember that it is the editorial policy of Atropos not to publish photographs in the journals that have been published on the Internet, wherever possible.
  
• Atropos reserves the right to withdraw any information from this site without prior notice.
  
• Atropos cannot accept any responsibility or liabilities from information appearing on this page.
  
  To post your message click here or the logo above.