Thanks to the volunteers and (especially the children) who came to look for invertebrates at the weekend, we have added some new species to our site list and thirty records to the EuroBioBlitz2023 project.
The pitfall traps yielded disappointing results, but we had much more success with the sweep net and beating from trees and shrubs.

I like this one, the tree damsel bug, Himacer...

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Emil Barber was an important explorer of the Upper Lusatian flora and an enthusiastic batologist. The blackberry on his grave bears his name. More can be read in the article by F. W. Sander (2017): Emil Barber und sein Wirken als Brombeerforscher – Gedanken anlässlich seines 100. Todestages. Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz 25: 121–122.

Emil Barber war ein bedeutender Erforscher der oberlausitzer Flora und ein enthusiastischer Batologe. Die Brombeere an ...

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The Biodiversity Buzz - protecting insect biodiversity through Data & AI
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Naturalis joins forces with Capgemini and AWS to launch the latest version of the Global Data Science Challenge for a sustainable future to identify insect species b...

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I decided to take a walk at Edmands Park. It was in the evening during fall so it was incredibly dark. I asked a friend to join my adventures with me. My friend and I used flashlights to guide our way through the park. Since it was dark it was eery; however, me and my friends managed to walk around and explore and follow the trail. We first took a lot of pictures regarding plants but then decided to check out other living organisms other than plants. So we decided to go further into the ...

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Nos desplazamos a los ríos de la península y encontramos una especie #exótica #invasora procedente de EE.UU🇺🇸 y México, que se haya dentro del grupo de los crustáceos.

Hoy hablamos del cangrejo rojo americano.

Llega a las marismas del #Guadalquivir con fines comerciales, compite con el mal llamado cangrejo autóctono y afecta a las poblaciones de algas, invertebrados y anfibios.

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7 октября (суббота) в 11:00

Онлайн-лекция «Плантариум: открытый онлайн атлас и определитель растений» в рамках Лектория «Флоры России»

📢 История о проекте «Плантариум» (ht...

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I was able to enjoy the beautiful view of nature. The weather today wasn't too cold compared to recent weathers it was a little windy. I was outside for 30+ minutes and captured a some of the interesting things I seen. I noticed a lot of insect and flies in the woods. The biggest animal I've seen so far was a bunny and it looked to be trying to get some shade from the sun.

I spotted a lot of trees and small plants. The first plant I spotted had some sort of fruit on it but there...

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After a long day inside, I decided to go explore around the res for my nature walk. I was excited for the warm weather and cool air, especially after a long weekend of rain. Just as the sun was setting, I went out to the res, put my AirPods in, and started my walk. I began to look for fungi but was having trouble and started to get frustrated. Prior to my walk, I looked at the link that Prof. Olins provided us so I expected to find similar organisms to those pictures: large mushrooms and...

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A, not so brief, story about finding some of the rarest beetles in the US in 365 days!

There are three known species of elephant beetle in the United States. One from Texas, the Texas Elephant beetle (Megasoma vogti), another from Arizona, Megasoma punctulatum, and the last with a sporadic range from California, Arizona, and even Nevada, Sleeper’s elephant beetle (Megasoma sleeperi). Many consider these species to be some of the rarest beetles in the US; however, there is a good...

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Hollandaea species, eg. as at 2012 currently known distributions

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Hollandaea diabolica is endemic to the Wet Tropics bioregion in north-eastern Queensland, WHERE IT IS CURRENTLY KNOWN TO OCCUR on the eastern fall of the Main Coast Range west of Mossman (see above) and an area on the East Mulgrave River to the south of Mt Bellenden Ker (

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Hello Everyone!

Happy October! It's sure feeling like fall now!

We have ALMOST reached our goal of 10,000 observations by the end of summer 2023! We are at a total of 9,945 observations; only 55 to go! Upload your observations by October 31st 2023 to have them included in my urban plant-pollinator study.

Thank you to those who were able to make it out to our last pollinator walk of the year in September and thank you to everyone who came out to a...

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After a short break, we're back with the latest updates for Gum Tree Guardians.

As always we start with a big welcome to the new members of the project. We welcome @ayenson, @katie11022, @kevin-jackson,

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6th trip for the project: BioBlitz @ Country Parks For All

A trip with my son at Lions Nature Education Centre on 30.09.2023, aimed at take photos on few more Coleoptera in order to complete the mission.

It is glad that son also showed his interest about outdoors walk and understand more on wild life.

The trip put an end to our journey in this project, it also inspired our family for further adventure on understanding more about wildlife and protection.

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With the start of this semester, one of my professors is utilizing this website for a semester-long observation project. I've nearly completed it already, but I hope to far surpass the requirements of 50 plants and 50 non-plant, non-bird species for this website. I will also be tracking bird sightings on eBird and utilizing Merlin Bird ID for songs and calls as an addition requirement of 50 species of birds observed. I will try to take some pictures of my bird observations and upload them aft...

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Today was a lovely day. The gateway scholars took an hour walk around the reservoir and in the process I was able to take pictures of a lot of different fungi! It was a large area and beyond that was water and geese etc... I also was able to see a chipmunk and other bugs. The weather was fairly nice and got a bit hotter the longer we walked. Since I was in such a nice environment surrounded by new friends I enjoyed my experience very well! I look forward to more nature walks.

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I went home for the weekend and took a lovely walk in the Haynes Meadow conservation land in Sudbury, Massachusetts. I took my two golden retrievers on a walk Monday morning, around 7 am, before I came back to school. It was a lovely morning - the air was crisp but warmer than it had been the past few days, around 60 degrees and sunny. I did normal loop, a little over one mile - where I always see so much wildlife: ducks, turtles, bees, snakes, and more. The leaves are starting to change...

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Hi All

Welcome to the end of the first month of the Rover Scouts Australia Citizen Science Project. This is organised by the Environment and Sustainability Patrol at the NRC.

Firstly I'd like to thankyou for signing up and giving this a go and hope you find it to be as much fun as I do.

A few weeks ago we held a webinar by Dr Larissa. You can find a copy of the recording here:

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I walked around hammond pond for an hour after I had my dinner today. Although I'm not too far away from home the woods reminded me of the paths at the end of the cul-de-sac on my street and the pond that is there as well. Staying observant of all the organisms I pass as smooth jazz played in my headphones reminded me of my childhood as I turned over rocks looking for beetles and worms. For some reason my mind was intent on finding a Birch Tree to my surprise I didn't find a single one t...

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Biodiversity Blitz is officially over and we are so excited to see that we got 1,502 observations, 559 species and 102 people observing Baw Baw's amazing biodiversity during the month of September.

While Biodiversity Blitz is over, our quest to understand more about our unique environment continues and we have set up an ongoing project to help us record all the amazing biodiversity that is seen throughout Baw Baw Shire Council.

Click on the link to join our ongoing proj...

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Дорогие друзья!
30 сентября наш проект достиг отметки в 69000 наблюдений. За три недели наш проект увеличелся на тысячу наблюдений.
Зафиксируем основные показатели: 69 000 наблюдений 1430 видов. Не менее одного наблюдения сделали 676 человек, а в их идентификации поучаствовали 1013 экспертов.

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I walked around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir for about 45 minutes. The weather was sunny with clear blue skies. At the start of my walk, I spotted what looked like a group of portabella mushrooms near a tree. As I kept walking down the trail I spotted a couple of lichens and they looked somewhat different. This made me think about what the phylogenetic trees would look like for these different types of lichens based on what we went over in class. As I finished my walk I found a weird-look...

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Great work by all the observers who have participated in the 2023 Project PRAIRIE Bioblitz!! As of October 2, there have been 2,838 observations compared with 1,366 observations for the entire 2022 Project PRAIRIE Bioblitz. We still have a week to go and the weather will cooperate for the next three days so get out in those prairies and continue to upload those observations.

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This afternoon, I took my second Nature Walk around the Reservoir just off campus. It was a beautiful day out, so I decided that it would be a great time to walk. The weather was bright and sunny with temperatures in the low 70s. I found that this walk was a lot more difficult than the first. The theme to be observed, fungi, are often scarce and difficult to find. I spent a long time searching the area just along the path with very little to show for it. Eventually, I ventured deeper int...

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It was a generally warm day out with plenty of sun but I knew that most fungi prefer shady, wet areas making the pine preserve a suitable place, especially after the recent rainfall. As I was walking up the dirt path my eyes searched for small divots in the grass where water may collect. These generally had open dirt and looked "mushy" or "soggy". Most of the Fungi I found were in these patches of shade with damp-looking dirt. I also found fungi at the bottom of most trees or on broken...

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30 сентября - последний день сезона 2023 года, когда можно было сделать последние наблюдения. Загружать и определять наблюдения можно до 10 октября 2023 года. В конце этого дня состоится фиксация статистики проекта. Подведение и объявление итогов конкурса согласно регламенту - до конца октября 2023 года.

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I walked around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir for the first time. At first I predicted that there would be little diversity and I think I was within my predicted range given how although this location is medium sized, my observation was fairly limited. I am sure that there would be more organisms to record that were under the surface. There were many plants such as daisies, pine, sunflowers, and berry bushes. The only wild animals I’ve observed was the swans and ducks.

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Today, I started my walk at the McElroy gates. I walked from McElroy to Newton Center, a little over three miles. I also walked down a couple side streets attempting to find fungi. The weather outside was extremely nice. The sun was finally out, which was a nice surprise after all of the rain Boston has had. While walking, I struggled to find fungi, which I believe was because it was a more populated area than the woods. An observation I found interesting was that most of my fungi were f...

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This is to help me reminder what tags I have created based on photo requests from other Organizations (Schools, NPSOT, SARA) and my own tracking.

List of my tags on observations.
==> animated - GIF files (also animated project)
==> NPSOT2023 - NPSOT request for pictures for their bookmarker project.
==> Bookmark2023 - Selected observations that made the bookmarker project (4 out 8 -Oct2023)
==> SARA_Blog - Request from San Antonio River Auth...

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THANK YOU for joining in California Biodiversity Day, 2023!

Over NINE HUNDRED PEOPLE participated in nature-mapping events in California throughout biodiversity week. You collectively submitted nearly 20,000 nature observations on iNaturalist and identified over 3,000 species! A special shout-out to the San Diego River Park Foundation’s Biodiversity Week Bioblitz! They observed over 600 species and had over 200 people participating! Another shout-out goes to the over 40 Californ...

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