One way to know if we have recorded enough butterfly sightings from a site is to record daily until we don't discover any new species.

However, this assumes that we have enough volunteers to record in all the relevant locations on the island.?

Even if this was the case the question then becomes: Where do we need to record next?

For the Sage Skipper it depends on whether it's in the western, southern or eastern Mediterranean. Historically, we have recorded our Sage Skipper as Muschampia proto but that is actually the Western Sage Skipper. It's unlikely that a species with a western Mediterranean distribution is to be found on Corfu so we have changed our records.

We are now coming to towards the end of our third year of recording for the Corfu Butterfly Survey. Which means we will soon have just two years of recording left. In the meantime, I have requested a little more functionality from our website and our fantastic website manager, David Shearan has yet again delivered.

Very little is known about Corfu's butterflies but even less is known about it's moths. This is why we have started to encourage an interest in the island's moths by making it possible for the larger Silk and Hawkmoths to be recorded on our website.

On our FaceBook page and on this CBC website we are used to recording any Bath White as the Eastern Bath White - Pontia edusa. This is a bit of an assumption because there are in fact two species of Bath White found in Europe.