The BugsCEP software package consists of two main files:
- BugsCEP which contains the forms, queries and code that make up the user interface
- Bugsdata which contains almost all of the actual data.
The latter is a relational database built in MS Access 2000, with about 43 tables which contain the data enumerated below.

The setup program will also install a number of support files as needed, including those necessary to run an Access database on a PC without the full software installed.

The vast majority of data has been input by Paul Buckland, including the extensive recent database update (see below).

Map display from SEAD which uses Google maps © (Please note that this map is not always updated with the lateset data!)

Species related

9701 5790* Taxa 5879 2601 Synonyms 722 500 Records of species association 1745 1702 UK RDB rarity records 8596 5107 Species attribute records (mainly size data)

• 4431 3146 References (see QBIB for more!)

Fossil record and other sample based

• 945 678 Sites
• 991 544 abundance datasets/countsheets
• 127199 67294 Fossil record entries (which make up the 790 countsheets)
• 7080 3339 Recorded dates of which: 953 radiometric; 5109 period; 1018 calendar

Climate and Ecology

• 436 MCR thermal envelopes
• 27645 22595 Ecology text excerpts
• 27970 21929 Distribution text excerpts
• 8510 8317 BugsEcoCode assignments
• 13037 11152 Koch Ecology Code assignments
• 9843 9707 UK Monthly activity records

Other

• 393 216 Identification keys (by Peter Skidmore)

* 5790 = original 2006 release