County Checklist

Technical Introduction

The checklist is comprised of just over 4,800 records for Aculeates throughout Staffordshire Vice County, of these 610 original from the West Midlands portion of the VC, whilst the rest are for the modern county.

All the records computerised by Staffordshire Ecological Record, up to the end of January 2002 have been included in the data generating the checklist, although vague records, e.g. Bombus sp. have been excluded.

Staffordshire Ecological Record is storing all the records in English Nature's Recorder database and the information has been processed through Access to generate the finished reports and DMap (produced by Alan Morton) for the distribution maps.

The Internet version of the checklist will be updated on a regular basis, which is impossible for the printed document.

Summary Information

The two maps above show the number of species recorded in each 10km square (left) and tetrad (right) of the vice county. It can be seen that there are noticeable concentrations around SJ74 (Madeley, where H.W.Daltry lived), Cannock Chase and the south-west around Highgate Common.