Monarch.org.nz Updates
Some updates to the Monarch.org.nz website - improving their data collection methodology on butterfly sightings.
The site has been surprisingly successful, and already a large sample has been collected on wintering Monarch butterflies in Aotearoa. The project is bringing a lot of butterfly folks together as well, which is excellent!
Because not everyone has internet (especially older folks who love to tend butterflies), we are making alternative methods for them to submit sightings. Mostly this involves them sending in letters, and Monarch Trust staff loading it into the DB via their website. All data is collected into an SQL db, and then sourced back to staff using an Excel data source that 'sucks' data from the website into an XLS spreadsheet for easy stats analysis.