The BugsCEP software package consists of two main files:
- BugsCEP, software which contains the forms, queries and code that make up the user interface
- Bugsdata, the database 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 (although this is becoming increasingly difficult on the latest Windows versions).

An online version is being integrated into the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD): www.sead.se, through which most of the fossil data can be accessed.

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

Most data are available through the SEAD Palaeoentomology Browser (a slight delay in updates from the Access version)

Species related

11420 Taxa (links to online images are being added) 7079 Synonyms 1006 Records of species association 2224 UK RDB rarity records 12228 Species attribute records (mainly size data)

(Click for BugsCEP structure)

Bibliographic

• 6919 References (see QBIB for more!)

Fossil record and other sample based

• 1438 Sites
• 1629 abundance datasets/countsheets
• 228594 Fossil record entries (which make up the countsheets)
• 12862 Recorded dates of which: 1486 radiometric; 8812 period; 2564 calendar

Climate and Ecology

• 436 MCR thermal envelopes (SCR - Species Climate Ranges)
• 39958 Ecology notes (from references)
• 44370 Distribution notes (from references)
• 9106 BugsEcoCode assignments
• 17370 Koch Ecology Code assignments
• 9916 UK Monthly activity records

Other

• 430 Identification keys (by Peter Skidmore)