Database reaches half a million!

I've just noticed that following some recent record imports the county moth database now contains over half a million records! Congratulations to all involved over many years.Exactly which record counts as number 500,000 is a bit debateable because it all depends on how you count them, but my best estimate for the honour goes to ...

• • Large Yellow Underwing, recorded on 22 July 2015, by Martin Finch in Maidenhead

This is fitting, since Large Yellow Underwing is the species that we have most records for overall (with 11,666 records), and it would probably be a good bet if you wanted to speculate on which species will form our millionth record!

Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba, by Martin Harvey