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Hi everyone!

What a year we have had! This year our volunteers completed over 2.5 million transcriptions, which is a phenomenal achievement. The information that comes out of every expedition is integral to the work of each and every Institution that we collaborate with. To all our volunteers we say a heartfelt thank you! Our validators also completed over 660,000 validations, which can often take additional time to complete due to the necessary attention to detail and specificity involved. Thanks for all your hard work!

We reached an exciting milestone in November this year when we surpassed 17,000 volunteers! This year alone we gained over 1,100 new faces, showing how DigiVol is being spread around the world by thoughtful and curious people. Also, over 2,100 unique individuals made at least one transcription this year.

On the expedition front, a total of 528 expeditions were completed (with more still finishing up) and we can separate them into our three expedition types: there were 214 Camera Trap expeditions completed, headlined by Bush Heritage - in particular the South East NSW Priority Landscape region topping our transcription numbers with a whopping 1,258,489 transcriptions!! Even though each task can be transcribed 4-6 times in order...
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Buddleja (or Buddleia) is a genus of flowering plants in the Scrophulariaceae family, that are native to parts of Asia, Africa and the Americas. The fragrant and vibrant flowers produced by these plants are a key source of nectar for butterflies, giving this genus the common name of the 'butterfly bush'. Buddleija was named by Carl Linnaeus to honour Adam Buddle, a botanist who specialised in mosses and liverworts.

The specimens in this expedition were imaged by Kew's incredible team of in house digitisation volunteers. Kew's Digitisation Volunteer Programme is currently supported by over 20 onsite volunteers who are involved in the digitisation of Kew's Herbarium collections. The completion of this expedition will therefore be a result of the combined effort of our onsite volunteers at Kew as well as our online volunteers on DigiVol! Thank you for your valuable contribution to Kew's Digitisation Project.

Further reading:

Attract butterflies to your garden with Buddleja! (How to attract insects to your garden | Kew)

Want to learn more about Kew's Digitisation Project?

Digitising Kew's Collections (Digitising Kew's Collections | Kew)