I wasn't able to find fungi or many other species at all unfortunately. It was warmer than it has been lately, and partly cloudy. I was disappointed I couldn't find any fungi because I didn't have enough time to go to a more natural place, and the campus has generally low biodiversity. I think it would be interesting to see more mushrooms around because I used to see a lot of fungi in my backyard, since I lived near some woods.

I wandered around a forest in Andover for around 45 minutes from around 2:00 to around 3:00. During the walk I was looking around for fungi such as mushrooms molds and lichens. At first it was hard to find and identify fungi except for mushrooms but as the walk went on I got better at seeing and identifying them. It was a nice day out so the walk was very pleasant and it was fun and interesting to look for a specific type of organism.

Great job Glenwood!! I'm glad you joined the bioblitz. Lots of good stuff on your prairie. The whorled milkweed is a very good find. Keep up the good work. I've extended the 2022 Project PRAIRIE Bioblitz through October 14 so you have more time to collect additional images for iNaturalist.

Good news!! I'm extending the 2022 Project PRAIRIE Bioblitz for an additional week, ending on Friday, October 14 at midnight. This will give everyone, especially those who have yet to post data, a chance to get in the game. I'll post more updates next week. Good luck!

My wildlife observations submission for the ZOOL 403 Amphibians Lab.

My wildlife observations submission for the ZOOL 403 Fish Lab.

Autores: Nelly del Carmen Jiménez-Pérez, Oscar Alonso Hernández-Jiménez y Abisaí Josué García-Mendoza.

Se describe e ilustra Agave guadarramae N.C. Jiménez et García-Mend., especie nueva descubierta en la sierra Madrigal, municipio de Teapa, Tabasco, México. Pertenece a la sección Guatemalenses; se le compara con A. calderonii Trel. (binomio prioritario para el taxón conocido como A. parvidentata Trel.) y A. pachycentra Trel., de la misma sección y con A. acicularis Trel., de la ...

Hey Ecoblitz enthusiasts!
Last month we were on the search for Turkey Vultures (TV's). Great job by @ericgofreed and @stateam003 for finding and posting the TV pics. Looks like you both spotted these amazing birds at Lake Pleasant!

Oue new challenge is locating and documenting the California Patch butterflies. As we wind dow...

Hello everyone! This is the twenty-fifth "Observations of the Week" post of the Biodiversity of South India Project!
Here they are in order:

1. Fungal infection on the egg sac of Cyrtarachne sp. from Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka by @vasanthi.
   This observation got 6 votes fro...

Check out the conservation mission for wild type American chestnuts in southern portion of PA State Game Land # 179 Greene County, Pennsylvania.
https://patacf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ACCM1_-PA-SGL-179-SOUTH.final_.pdf

Germplasm from this locality is highly lacking in our conservation plots. Genetic diversity is critical for the long term viability of conserva...

Hace unas semanas vi que ya nos faltaba poco y me dije que estaría atento, pero recién hoy reviso y me doy con la grata sorpresa de que ¡pasamos los 300 mil!
En este momento tenemos 301.898 observaciones para el país, con 18.864 especies, gracias al aporte de 7.797 usuarios de iNaturalist y a 6.910 colaboradores de todo el mundo en las identificaciones.
Seguimos creciendo como comunidad y seguimos contribuyendo con más información sobre las especies.
Entre las últimas contri...

En el mes de abril del año 2020, junto a un grupo de conservacionistas, se decide la búsqueda de un area de 350 ha en el municipio de Macarena, Meta con el objetivo de crear un area protegida. Para esta época nos encontrábamos en pandemia y tuvimos que realizar la búsqueda de las áreas desde las ciudades mediante imágenes satelitales, fue todo un reto ya que no podíamos salir de las casas.

Hace un año fuimos a ver una finca para el cumplimiento de la meta de expansión de la reserva Guayabero cocodrilo. La finca que vimos fue la de un vecino llamado don Teófilo. Esa visita que se realizó donde Teófilo encontramos que estaba derribando parte de último bosque del predio el cual limita con la reserva Guayabero Cocodrilo. Derribo 30 hectareas cuando lo visitamos. Un año después ósea anoche 13 de junio del 2022 don Teófilo me llamo a reportar la muerte de 9 Chivos exactamente en...

19 de octubre del 2020, Hace unos días fuimos a recorrer los linderos de la reserva con William y caminamos unas 6 horas llegamos a una laguna muy transparente en la cual se veía claramente estiércol de dantas, chiguiros y otro felino que no pudimos identificar cual era, ya cuando nos regresábamos de la laguna vimos en un árbol unas marcas grandes que parecían garras de un animal gigante, no podría ser hecho con un machete por que las ranuras no concuerdan con la hoja del machete, le tom...

Welcome to The Pennsylvania and New Jersey Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation's (TACF) iNaturalist project page!

The mission of TACF is to restore the American chestnut tree to its native range within the woodlands of eastern North America through research and education. Our goal in The PA/NJ Chapter is to develop blight-resistant American chestnut trees, via backcross method of breeding, for the restoration of locally adapted breeding populations of the species in the ...

Read this month's newsletter here:

https://mailchi.mp/9beeb043e2b0/spotted-on-site-july-newsletter-9758173?e=[UNIQID]

Happy species spotting! 🍄

Still very dry, but it has cooled off. I have reached 415 different species identified on the 175 Lafitte prairie.

Right now Bidens, late boneset, frost weed and goldenrods are blooming.

Bidens is covered in honey bees and flies. Frost weed is a good attractor for butterflies and bumble bees (Need to add more frost weed).

Have seen some activity on the golden rods, but they really just started blooming.

הוא שכב פצוע על רצפת מגרש הספורט. האמת, במצב לא טוב. הפוך על הגב, מחושים זזים באוויר בחוסר ישע. זה היה בוקר אפור, דל מאוד בציפורים וחרקים מעופפים. אבל כל הכיתה התרכזה סביבו. בהתחלה חשבו להרוג אותו. הנמלים הבנאיות התרוצצו סביבו, בודקות את הסחורה. אבל אז הבנו שגם הוא יצור חי. ארי החליט שצריך לשמור עליו, וגם על הנמלים. הוא דאג להרחיק סקרנים וחשב אולי לשים לו פלסטר, או לקרוא לאמבולנס. בשיעור שלנו לא הורגים חיות, גם אם לא תמיד מצליחים להציל אותם. רגישות חדשה נולדת, ואולי היא כל הזמן היתה שם. ...

בזמן שבית הספר התרוקן התמלאו השמים שלו ציפורים. גל נדידה יוצא דופן של עופות דורסים שבדרך כלל עוברים מזרחה יותר מאתנו עבר אותנו ממש נמוך. היו שם המון איות צרעים, בזים מצויים ובזי עצים, חיוויאים (מין של עיט שאוכל נחשים), זרון שדות בודד ואצילי וגם להקה גדולה של שקנאים, כחל יפהפה, שחף ראשון לעונה והמון המון שרקרקים ששרקו כל הזמן מעלינו באוויר. את כולם צילמנו והם מוצגים כבר בתערוכה קטנה בבית הספר, על קיר הספרייה מבחוץ. הילדים מוזמנים לזהות את הציפורים. כל ילד שיזהה אחת מהן יוכל להוסיף אותה לר...

Around 200 red squirrels live on Brownsea Island, a safe haven away from their rival, the grey squirrel which outcompetes them for food and carries the squirrel pox, fatal to the red. The National Trust and the Dorset Wildlife Trust are helping to look after the red squirrels here through careful woodland management.

Brownsea Island (along with the Isle of Wight and Scilly Isles) is one of the very few refuges for the red squirrel in southern England.

Dik-diks, in the Madoqua kirkii/damarensis complex, have inconspicuous colouration, overall. This fits their secretive, non-gregarious, cover-dependent habits.

However, it is puzzling that the eyes do not conform to this pattern.

The dark of the eyeball, eyelids, and antorbital gland are accentuated by a ring of pale pelage, making the eyes conspicuous.

I was walking from my dorm to the Chesnut Hill Res, the weather was very warm, around 70 degrees F. I saw lots of grass, trees, insects, animals, and plants. The landscaped lawns of BC wasn't very appealing to me, so I made the trip down to Lower Campus. The Res was as beautiful as usual, and I watched the sun set. Many of the organisms around it had grown because of the damp environment.The squirrel pictures was running with an acorn in its mouth. I also came across a tree with fungi on...

Today I reached 500 different species - a personal goal I set early in the summer. Think I'll keep going...

Here's another one I'm really hoping someone can collect and rear. The South African moth Digitivalva delaireae is being considered as a potential biological control agent for Cape-ivy in California and Oregon, but meanwhile people have been regularly observing some native(?) leafminer on this plant, and no one knows what it is. There is typically a roughly circular brown spot at the beginning, where the mine is apparently contorted or forms a tight spiral, and this suggests to me...

There is a field at 38.840002, -121.271484 which I had yet to walk, so today I made a quick survey. It being October the fields were dry, but there is one small creek, probably spring fed. I walked in along the creek from the South Creek Wilson Park Trail Head area. There was a large variety of plants, some of which I captured in photographs and posted. I did see a Black Tailed Jackrabbit which I did not photograph, and I was able to photograph a Red-tailed Hawk, which took off from ...

Family Mantidae
Mantis religiosa

• horizontal line through the eyes
• black spot with white center in the armpit

• Colour can be green or beige… or anything in between
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91029889
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34295642
  

לכבוד תחילת השנה הצטרפו לחיפושים גם ילדי אל"ף 1. הם הפכו כל פינה בבית ספר והצליחו בשבוע לסגור מצוין את הפער עם שער הכיתות. השלל שלהם: לא פחות מ-15 מיני חיות שונות, כולל מיינה חצופה שנכנסה לתוך הבניין, נמלה בנאית שאפשר לזהות לפי הריח כשנוגעים בה וגמל שלמה מתפלל. אבל הכי יפה היה העורבני עם הבייגלה בפה שסגר את השיעור

22.05.2022 на рибгоспі Солтанівка, на спущену ставку Олена Фоміна відмітила одну особину коровайки.

26.05.2018 пролітну особину коровайки на рибгоспі біля м.Яготин спостерігав Олексій ...

בוקר ראשון אחרי ראש השנה. שיעור שלישי יוצא לדרך עם חיות מפתיעות. צרעות דקות גזרה שצילמה המורה חן, שממית בתים שהפכה לזוחל הראשון והיחיד בינתיים שמצאנו, מרעידן שהתיישב יפה בתוך הקומפוסטר ונודדות הסתיו הראשונות בעצים שמעלינו - עלווית אפורה וסבכי קוצים. בלי לשים לב הרשימה שלנו עברה תוך שלושה שיעורים את רף 50 המינים, וזה בלי כיתות בי"ת המצוינות, שפספסו שיעור בגלל ראש השנה.

For about half an hour from 3:45 pm to 4:15 pm, I walked around the pine tree reserve. The weather was quite warm to the point where I was sweating just walking around. Although I always pass the reserve on the way to the plex, this was the first time I walked around. Through the walk, I ended up seeing various plant life such as burdocks, American burnweed, koyamaki, and the leopard Earthball fungi. In addition, I also encountered some animal life in the tree squirrels scampering around...