Hi everyone, This year I committed some time and generated a summary report for all records of butterflies within Mainland China up to 2020-April-03. It is now hosted on GitHub, please check it out and let me know any suggestions for the project or the report :)

大家好！

今年我花了一点时间整理了iNat上截止2020年4月3日中国内地/大陆所有的蝴蝶记录，产生了一份有图的总结。这份报告现在已上传到 GitHub 上，可以访问下面的页面查看（请告诉我任何您的建议或意见）

Thank you all for uploading and taking care of the butterflies on iNaturalist! Please stay safe and wish the best for your observation in the coming summer!
感谢大家在最近一年中上传蝴蝶到这里来，希望今年大家都能健康平安，在夏天有个充实的蝶季！

--yixianshuiesuan

Dear friends，

Thanks to @thelittleman 's kind reminder, we have hit the 20,000 records of butterflies representing 666 species in the past few weeks. It is really an exciting moment for the butterfly community on iNaturalist as we continue to bring up new records and surprises to this platform. In what to be followed, I will briefly summarize some interesting facts of the records, and please comment here for any suggestions and ideas to help us expand our observers and identifiers group!

谢谢 @thelittleman 先生的提醒，我们的中国蝴蝶版块最近达到了两万观测记录，总共代表了666个蝴蝶物种。这是一个令人兴奋的消息！这篇总结会简要地展示一下这些观测记录的数据。欢迎大家在评论区发表意见或提供建议，改进iNat中国区的观测！

====SUMMARY====小结====
Up to March 29th, 2019/截止2019年3月29日

Observations/观测记录总数: 20648

Species/物种总数: 666

Identifiers/鉴定人总数: 745

Observers/观测人总数: 1866

====Records by families====蝴蝶各科总结====
Papilionidae: 3098 records, 65 species
Pieridae: 2517 records, 62 species
Nymphalidae: 8812 records, 279 species
Riodinidae: 536 records, 12 species
Lycaenidae: 3498 records, 133 species
Hesperiidae: 2129 records, 115 species
凤蝶科：3098条记录，65个物种
粉蝶科：2517条记录，62个物种
蛱蝶科：8812条记录，279个物种
蚬蝶科：536条记录，12个物种
灰蝶科：3498条记录，133个物种
弄蝶科：2129条记录，115个物种

====Records by observation regions====观测区域总结====
Hong Kong: 11515 observations, 223 species
Taiwan: 6390 observations, 263 species
Mainland China: 2737 observations, 526 species
香港：11515条记录，223个物种
台湾：6390条记录，263个物种
大陆：2737条记录，526个物种

**Remark: please stay away from any comments related to political issues. iNaturalist is a platform for nature observations only. 请避免发表有关政治的评论。

Wish everyone a happy and a fruitful 2019!
新年快乐！祝愿各位蝶兄蝶姐2019年收获满满！

Congrats to @raylei for his photo of Papilio arcturs 窄斑翠凤蝶 being chosen as iNaturalist's observation of the day! Check this beautiful butterfly below:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18843670

Thanks to everyone contributing here,
Yixianshuiesuan

Hey everyone, today we reached 10,000 records of butterfly observations. It is the effort of every member that contributed to this platform, no matter how large/small it is.

Meanwhile, there are 27.9% records without proper identifications, and we sincerely hope you could spent five minutes a day helping us increase the correct identifications. Thank you!

--Yixianshuiesuan