Relying on distinct floral resources, habitats, and nesting sites for survival, many pollinators are ecological niche specialists. The preservation and restoration of diverse habitats, such as urban green spaces, forests, wetlands, meadows, and grasslands is necessary for the conservation of pollinators. Protecting pollinator habitat can ensure entire ecosystems, conserve native fauna and fl...

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Primula Vulgaris is an iconic plant for many as its beauty is often quite captivating. It is often grown in cultivation due to the ease of management.

The associated habitats of the plant are areas which are moist but drained. Riparian zones are usually hotspots and they can also be found in upland areas frequently.

The first signs of Primula Vulgaris are their basal leaves. In fact, the plant only grows basal leaves- no stem leaves. Buds often emerge quickly after the le...

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As our project numbers continue to climb, a quick look at the stats on our project page reminds us shows that a lot of the biodiversity we're documenting is in the 'plants,' followed by the 'insects' and then the 'birds' groups.

One of the many great things about citizen science is that we don't need to wait until our observations reach researchers to learn from them. The relationship between pollinators, plants, and the resulting amount of biodiversity we have, becomes evident ...

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[in English]
Through the first four months of 2024 there have been 2344 observations of 161 species of lizards in the Amazon region. For comparison, through the same period in 2023 (accounting for ‘leap day’) there were 1629 observations of 134 species. Thus, in 2024 there have been 144% of the observations from previous years with 120% of the number of species.

It’s not just observations and species that are higher, but identifiers (290 vs. 277) and observers (889 vs. 640) ...

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A nature journal entry from May 6, 2013...

Photographer: William Wise | iNat Observation: 25631567 - Brown-headed Cowbird; Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. May 6, 2013. ©

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Dates: 29th April - 5th May 2024

Weather conditions:
Cool becoming warmer at the weekend (16-7 degrees), light winds (max. 40mph), heavy rain Monday - Tuesday getting drier towards the weekend.

Amphibians:
Lissotriton sp

Bats (emergence surveys):
28/04:
Common Pipistrelle - 2 passes, emerged at 21:50
Noctule Bat - 116 passes, 1st recorded at 21:11
Soprano Pipistrelle - 6 passes, emerged at 20:52

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Summary of emergence surveys (sunset - 30 minutes to sunset + 180 minutes):

Dates recorded:
Barbastelle Bat 16/04 - 22/04
Brandt’s Bat 17/04 - 22/04
Brown Long-eared Bat 04/02 - 03/05
Common Pipistrelle 04/01 - 03/05
Daubenton's Bat 16/04 - 22/04
Grey Long-eared Bat 26/03 - 26/03
Leisler’s Bat ...

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Phase III Identifications.

Thanks all for a sterling job.
It is now time to start focusing on getting observations to Research Grade. However, with a backlog of 14,000 Unknowns, we also need people to tackle this group urgently

Headline Stats

Of our 124,371 observations of 9,548 species (does not look like we will make 10,000 this year)

• Some 807 observations have no media - these cannot be identified or verified. Thanks to the 50 observations...

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ВЕСНА: ДЕНЬ ЗА ДНЁМ

Всего за третью декаду апреля в проект «Весна: день за днём» по Белгородской области добавилось 16 видов птиц, а за всё время наблюдения встречены 89 видов (из них на учтены через портал INat 56 видов).

21 апреля – Восточный соловей, А. Попов, Шебекинский р-н
22 апреля – Обыкновенный перепел, А. Попов, Шебекинский р-н
23 апреля – Пеночка-трёщотка, А. Попов, Шебекинский р-н
26 апреля – Речная крачка, О. Малахова
26 апреля – Черногол...

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SPECIFIC TO ME:

My Observations:

MY Observations RG Grade:
https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_obs_counts_by_iconic_taxa?user_id=alexwilson5

MY Observation Heat-Map:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?user_id=alexwilso...

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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=202364&subview=table

Limkins, mushrooms, ....swamp tupelo! The bar has been set; bring your naturalist game!

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We've pretty much plateaued at the number of observations (5,485) and species (1,428), both of which are amazing! I've spent the day doing identifications. We're at 43.3% research grade, up from 37.2% yesterday. I'd like to hit at least 50% by Sunday night. There are still of "Unknowns" to be sorted out, so any help you can give is still welcome.

Bruce

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On May 3rd, 2024, I had reached 500 observations, the observation that brought me to this number was a house sparrow. Buying a camera had certainly given me many more opportunities to make observations, including several species I had not been able to photograph before.

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My partner and I went to Puerto Rico for 9 days. I am not big on just laying out in the sun so I took some photos of the local biodiversity. It was the greatest orgy of nature exploration I've ever had. It's amazing to be in a place where you can walk in the sea with a phone or camera because the waves are generally so small, and where you can hike up thousands of vertical feet across a whole series of ecological communities, and where the mushrooms, orchids, warblers and other creatures...

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Please fix your locality resolution (or locality accuracy or locality error). Too large an accuracy, or missing accuracy, means that the data are not incorporated into checklists for the smaller nature reserves and places, and cannot be used for conservation planning and red listing purposes.

Ideally we like it to be 2-5m accuracy, but often one is uncertain, or does not know quite where one was, in which case it might be 100s of metres. but please if you genuinely dont know exac...

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I began this iNaturalist account with the intention of documenting local tree species. I named it for the tree service that I work for, and I intended it partly as a resource to share with interested clients who wanted to know more about the trees that grow in our area. However, this account very quickly expanded beyond that narrow focus as I began using it to document all kinds of plant life. Soon I was averaging observations of multiple new species each day, including several "county r...

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Good morning fellow fish observers
In celebration of World Ocean Day 2024 we are facilitating a Reef Blitz between 1 and 8 June.
https://worldoceanday.org/event/reef-blitz-2024/

We have organised similar events in 2022 and 2023 and you can see the great results on iNaturalist with over 2000 observations of 621 species-

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Leading Tour at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, San Mateo County, California Friday April 3rd, 2024

Weather & Tide

+0.2 at 1334 Very sunny

Duties & Visitors

Seal Cove, tour for 11/12th graders from KIPP Academy East Palo Alto. Well behaved

Observations

Several ochre, several bats. Overall, good. Good group.

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Good evening CNCSOFLO-ers!

We just broke 3,000 species for the first time ever! Many folks are still uploading pics taken from the observation period and at this point we are within touching distance of passing Cape Town. They have always been the City Nature Challenge juggernauts and it's wild to think we may end up passing them. Whatever the case, this has been the best CNCSOFLO yet in terms of species observed. Our number of participants dropped quite a bit compared to last ye...

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Sat in my backyard today and saw tons of birds! I saw a pair of blue jays but sadly wasn't able to snap a picture quick enough.

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https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=woolcarderbee

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Suggestions for photographing larva of Lepidoptera

• https://bugguide.net/node/view/258535#Caterpillars

Most Plusiines cannot be reliably IDed from a larval photo.

Detailed information regarding difficulty of identifying Plusiine Family larvae in "Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America" by David L. Wagner, et al. -- pp 291-293 in PDF version of text (without phot...

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If you read my posts last summer about the "top galls" to look for in 2023, you might recall some discussion of blister-like galls growing on the leaves of Silphium plants. These unassuming leaf swellings are quite unusual amongst Silphium gall wasps, especially given that most species induce only inconspicuous galls hidden within the host plant's tissues, and that the cauline leaves of most Silphium species are quick to shrivel up and break away during the growing s...

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This journal post is to keep track of articles and podcasts I've participated in.

Jumpstart Nature Podcast #5
"The New Naturalists" by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Fall 2019 Bay Nature

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Registration for the Dragonfly Society of the Americas meeting this June in Marietta is now open. This is the first time Ohio has hosted DSA, so it's an event! We hope to see you there.

Connect at https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/ohio2024

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Diversidad de Murciélagos en Chuquisaca, Bolivia

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В Ватутинском лесу первое кукование кукушки зафиксировано 27 апреля. Первая трель соловья - 1 мая.

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(For lack of a given term)
I've been interested in these galls on Ericameria laricifolia for some time, and recently found great numbers at the Sears Kay ruin on the Tonto National Forest. I returned later and collected a couple of dozen to observe.

Galls are apical, teardrop-shaped and are de...

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-------------- 3rd May 2024 --------------

The project comprises initially 174 taxa :

• 168 endemic taxa: 130 species, 38 infraspecifics
• 6 non-endemic species (having endemic infraspecifics)

Currently, 122 of 136 different species have RG observations.

Updates welcome.

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We did it! Mrs. Rhodes, Dr. Koz and myself got our students paired up and made a ton of observations in and around our playground! Kids observed so many different kinds of plants, trees, bushes, flowers, and we even found a wolf spider!

Kids also created some nature journals about their iNaturalist observations. They did them on iPads and paper. I know our 6th graders loved hanging out and helping our younger friends from 2nd and 1st grade.

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