The species we monitor and map

Groups of plants and animals monitored for the University of St Andrews Key Performance Indicators for biodiversity are:

Amphibians

Reptiles

Birds

Mammals

Bees (Bumblebees, bees and wasps)

Dragonflies

Butterflies

Moths (Macro and Micro)

Hoverflies

Ladybirds

Molluscs

Vascular plants (trees and other native plants, excluding, mosses, lichens and ferns)

Fungi

Tree bumblebee (John Anderson) – one of the climate change winners at the moment, colonising St Andrews from the south over the last decade