Hello Everyone,

I am deeply grateful for the incredible participation you all have shown during the City Nature Challenge observation days! Your contributions have provided us with a remarkable yearly snapshot of the biodiversity in our area. The numbers this year are truly astounding, and I am eagerly anticipating how they will evolve in the coming days as the ID verification process continues.

It's a good time to start identifying some species as the weather looks rai...

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I can't thank everyone enough for all the entries that have been made so far this year! We have had an incredible amount of identifications within the park and we are only in May!!! I am extremely excited to see what we are able to gather by the end of 2024.

This Bioblitz will help immensely with our species identification list that I plan to create in 2025.

Keep up the awesome work! From everyone here at Rocky Fork State Park, THANK YOU!!!!

If you have any...

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Temperatures are climbing, and the southeastern woods are ringing with loud cicada choruses! More observations are coming in of holes and nymphs in Brood XIII territory, so they're not far behind their southern cousins. Keep an eye out for the black patches on northern nymphs, which will appear just before they're ready to emerge and undergo their final molt.

In light of all the records coming in, I've broadened the project parameters to include "Needs ID" observations. I hope th...

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Common Checkered-Skipper and Allies Complex Burnsius communis

White Checkered-Skipper and Common Checkered Skipper cannot be separated with photos. Dissection of the male genitalia is required. See:
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Pyrgus-communis
or
https://www.butte...

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Thanks for checking out and joining the Firefly Blitz 2024 project!

Why create a new iNaturalist project for fireflies in the United States?

After all, there is already the Fireflies of the USA and Canada project, the Mass Audubon Firefly Watch project, and t...

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I started keeping track of individual observations (and now journal posts) that seemed to have generated interesting dialogue last year.

The first post was here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/jackson_chu/78283-interesting-community-discussions-based-on-some-of-my-observations

After another year and thousands ...

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time - 8:30pm - 11:30pm
location- Audubon Vermont: Green Mountain Audubon Center
weather - Partially cloudy, 40-50 degrees.
habitat - Open field, forested area, pond, wetland area

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Minnesota Lichen Map Project
May 1, 2024
According to their website:
“British Field Studies Council is an environmental education charity. Founded in 1943, we are best known for providing residential and day field trips for those studying biology and geography. But our mission is to create outstanding opportunities for everyone to learn about nature.”
Do you want to know more about Lichens?
British Field Studies Council offers an online class for beginners and advanc...

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R.O. Moffett, 1994, Rhus longispina and Rhus pterota, two hitherto confused South African shrubs,South African Journal of Botany, 60, 43-49, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0254-6299(16)30659-7

Comparison of diagnostic characters of Rhus longispina and R. pterota

Drupe
R.l - Oblate, ellipsoid 3.5 X 2.3 - 6.8 X 4.7 mm, chestnutbrown, drying dark brown; resinous juice and dry drupes, astringent...

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Дождливая погода не помешала алматинцам внести достойный вклад в Сity Nature Challenge 2024 года. Хотя, как мне известно, кое-кого и демотивировала. Но не думаю, что таких было много. Подробнее об итогах первого в Казахстане CNC предлагаю поговорить 8 мая. Приглашаются участники, сделавшие во время биоблица более 10 наблюдений, а также организаторы и партнеры. Прошу заполнить небольшую анкетку, она внизу.

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Привіт, айнатівці.
Настав час завантажити усі спостереження, які були зроблені 26-29 квітня, та долучитися до визначення спостережень, які зробили інші.

Пропозиції такі:
🔸 Кличте експерта на допомогу.
🔸 Обговорюйте найпроблемніші знахідки в нашій групі (сподіваюсь, ви всі до неї підключилися. Якщо ні - пишіть!)
🔸 Стежте за визначенням своїх спостережень та коментарями до них.
🔸 Ми все ще збираємо цікаві знахідки для інфографіки від організаторів глобального C...

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Welcome to the Witherley and Atterton Flora and Fauna project.
This projecty has been set up to record observations and locations of plants and animals in our villages. This will help us to understand the habitats and biodiversity that we have here and see any trends that may be apparent over time. The project also aims to increase the nature connection of the local community.
Happy observing!

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We've had a big jump in Odonata numbers over the last week.

April is officially our best survey April. Nearly 900 research grade observations, 30 species, 120+ contributors. There will be several new County Records and at least a couple new Early Flight dates.

Only 13 counties did not have observations reported. See the map below. 2024 counties are the darkest. We only have three ciunties now with no April records.

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I've been seeing many great observations come in for the CNC so keep up the good work! We are now in the upload and ID phase, which means observations can still be uploaded as long as they were taken from Friday to Monday (April 26-29). Also, if you are able to, provide taxonomic identifications to as many observations as you can. The goal is to make most of the observations "Research Grade" so that they are usable for scientific research. We have until May 5th to upload and ID. Results ...

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Thank you everyone for helping with the huge Identification effort underway. If you can spare any time, please join in and help with identifications.

Special thanks to our heavy duty identifiers. You can see who they are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa?tab=identifiers

How far a...

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What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!

The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project

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What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!

The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project

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What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!

The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project

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What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!

The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project

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What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!

The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project

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Look closely at the stem of Uvularia puberula you will notice fine hairs that are not present in U. sessilifolia. Secondly, if you look at the interior of the petals of U. sessifolia you will notice distinct bumps. A third, non-diagnositic characteristic has to do with how much the leaves tend to unfurl before flowering. U. puberula tend to flower when the leaves look just like those seen here (still folded), whereas the leaves of U. sessiofolia are more open. ....

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Hi all,

Thank you so much to everyone who has taken part in the City Nature Challenge so far, the weekend was a huge success and the increase in observations from last year has been incredible! So far we have 4326 observations, 903 species, 75 observers and 228 identifiers, compared to 2667 observations, 692 species, 80 observers and 335 identifiers last year. This has contributed to a global total of over 2.1 million observations so far!

But this isn't the end of the Ci...

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In English below

Skaba käy kuumana, kun kasvit ja hyönteiset alkavat tulla esiin, joten onkin hyvä kerrata vielä mitkä havainnot lasketaan pisteiksi skabassa.

Aiemmin puhuin sekaisin tutkimustasolle päässeistä havainnoista ja lajimäärästä, mutta olen nyt oppinut että nämä eivät aina kulje käsi kädessä. Hyväksytyn havainnon täytyy tosiaan päästä tutkimustasolle MUTTA havaittu laji täytyy kuitenkin määritellä lajilleen. Ainakin hyönteisissä ja sienissä havaintoja on viime a...

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iNaturalist broke records this April thanks to an amazing City Nature Challenge. For the first time we logged more than 6 million observations and more than 400 thousand participants in a month! If you...

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Hi Everyone,

A recent study, Layton & Wilson 2024, has split Chromolaichma sedna (Marcus & Marcus, 1967):
C. sedna: eastern Pacific
C. hemera: western Atlantic

More over, the authors discover ''extensive phylogeographic structure within C. hemera sp. nov. sensu lato, thereby refuting the hypothesis of a recent introduction'' and found ''significant rate heterogeneity among marine invertebrate genera that share a similar lifespan, reproductive mode and disp...

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Bonjour,

Précisez vos disponibilités le lundi 6 et le mardi 7 mai pour notre réunion destinée à préparer les 6 prochains mois
Le formulaire est en ligne, pour y répondre il faut cliquer sur le lien suivant et préciser vos disponibilités :

https://framadate.org/Ba1ICT1X3NtFRAWS

-- Mai 2024
Soit lun. 6 à 10h30 ou 14h30 ou le mar. 7 à 10h30 ou 14h30

Vous pouvez diffuser ...

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Hello everyone, it looks like you’ve compiled a nice total so far, we’re at 3,143 observations. Regrettably, I’ve had to be away this year so couldn’t contribute. However, I’ve been doing some identifications when I could. Last year we hit a 70% research grade level, which was pretty good. As far as I could tell, we won the CNC in that measurement (but there’s no recognition for that in the CNC)! We have a ways to go to meet that again, so it’s worth going through the identify model...

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The observations continue to trickle in and the identifications continue to arrive. We added nearly 100 observations today. Laura Sare bumped me from the top spot with 440 observations. Again, I'm happy to cede top spot, particularly to such a worthy "opponent." Our species count is currently at 1,418, just a few over last night's 1,409. That number is going to vary, probably staying in that neighborhood, as IDs are refined and changed over the next few days. Yesterday's post shoul...

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I have updated the range map for Uta stansburiana and the five continental subspecies based on some recent work in the field the past couple years. The map can be found as this observation. Some areas of these distributions are still poorly understood, such as much of the non-Baja distribution in Mexico (especially at the subspecific level) and where U.s.elegans, U.s.nevadensis, and ...

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