{"id":565548,"date":"2026-05-04T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:46:15","slug":"saprinus-semistriatus-beetle-enthusiast-records-species-not-seen-in-ireland-for-nearly-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565548\/","title":{"rendered":"Saprinus semistriatus: Beetle enthusiast records species not seen in Ireland for nearly a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen James, Senior Curator of Natural Sciences for the National Museums NI said being able to trace the history of the species showed the importance of historic specimen collections which pre-date the data available online, the earliest being from 1894 in Portrush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CEDaR is Northern Ireland&#8217;s only Local Environmental Record Centre and is funded by the carrier bag levy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amy Laird is the Learning and Engagement Officer at CEDaR. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We operate primarily to collate and collect records from across NI together into one central data base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We work with different experts, professionals and citizen scientists and then we are able to inform biodiversity, conservation, and research from that data base,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This shows that even one record can make a big difference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Working with citizen scientists is essential, it covers so much more ground than members of staff can alone, they can fill in a lot of knowledge gaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen James, Senior Curator of Natural Sciences for the National Museums NI said being able to trace the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}