Again, many thanks to all who participated in this year's TradMaD Bioblitz.

Here are our final results:

• 14 observers recorded 674 observations.
• 262 of those observations made it to Research Grade (i.e., were verified by at least two Identifiers in the iNat community).
• 117 species have been identified to the level of Research Grade.
• We had the support of 96 Identifiers in the iNat Community.
• Ann Schunior submitted the most observati...

Hi folks!
If you'd like your relevant invasive species sightings to automatically display the Oregon iMapInvasives project flag, please join the Oregon iMapInvasives Collector project - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/oregon-imapinvasives-collector.

The two projects serve the same purpose - to highlight species that are invasive in Oregon, non-native but potentially invasive,...

Вот и пройдена первая тысяча наблюдений на территории сельских поселений Выборгского района!
Всего отметилось 148 наблюдателей, а 1 017 наблюдений распределено между 497 видами.
На данный момент проект занимает 4-е место среди районов ЛО по количеству наблюдений и видов, 2-е по числу наблюдателей.
Топ-50 наблюдателей:

Hi Everyone!
@landrygrant Landry Grant is wrapping up her UNT LLELA internship with a community blacklighting event at LLELA Saturday Oct. 8th from 6:30 - 11pm.

Enter through the main front gate. We will meet at the office/classroom/greenhouse Blackjack Trailhead. After entering through the front gate, take the first gravel driveway on your right and park in the lot.

This event will be free...

I'm just not fast enough with my phone camera!! I have now seen a black witch moth at Whitewater Preserve 3 times!!!! They are huge, amazing creatures. They seem to flutter around kind of willy-nilly. The very first time was during docent training under the shade structure. I seriously thought it was a bat. But it eventually landed in the eaves of an outbuilding and we could see it was a moth. The last time was just the other day (10/1/22). I was inside the ranger station helping wi...

Hi iNaturalists,

If you received an email about this project being changed, it is because I added several species to keep this list more in synch with our Oregon Jurisdiction list on iMapInvasives.natureserve.org.

iNaturalist records are an important source for invasive species records for iMapInvasives. The platform now has a separate iNaturalist snapshot layer showing the most recent 5-years of iNat sightings, and records from this snapshot can be incorporated into ema...

Нашим новым объектом интереса становится посёлок Синёво Ларионовского сельского поселения Приозерского района. До 1948 года посёлок был известен под финским названием Näpinlahti.
До Синёво легко добраться по автомобильной дороге от Приозёрска (8 км), на территории посёлка имеется и железнодорожная станция под одноимённым названием.
Синёво расположено на берегу Вуоксы, через него также протекает небольшая речка Луговая.

RAPHICERUS CAMPESTRIS CAMPESTRIS

Western Cape, South Africa

ground-colour dark

https://stock.adobe.com/ro/images/steenbok-on-a-farm-near-beaufort-west/451843585?prev_url=detail

forehead rich-hued

https://stock.adobe.com/ro/images/b...

The Sengis (Elephant Shrews) comprise 3 genera and 10 spp in s Afr.
A few other species and genera occur in tropical and north Africa.

Petrodromus Fourtoe Sengis (1 - 11 sp or ssp)
Petrodromus tetradactylus Fourtoe Sengi (6 of 9 ssp in region - fur colour and hairs on tail)

• 4 toes on hind feet
• hallax absent
• larger (> 160 mm head-body)
• 2 prs pectoral mammae

Macroscelides Roundear Sengis ...

Dassies comprise 3 genera and 7 species, with many spectacular extinct fossils.
Each genus has a single species in southern Africa.

Procavia
Procavia capensis Rock Dassie (2 out of 6 ssp in s Afr)

• colonial
• molars hypsodont
• mammae 1 pr pectoral, 2 pr inguinal

• eyebrows pale and inconspicuous
  (P.c. capensis: black dorsal gland hairs; P.c.welwitschii: pale yellow or white dorsal gland hairs)

...

Here is what I have discovered now that I notice, and/or follow culturally modified trees and then use the publicly available LIDAR maps to check if there is any subsurface engineered landscape (Note that I do no excavation so rely on tree falls, road cuts and erosion to determine subsurface geology).

1. Flat foundation mounds - dwelling nature unknown but road cuts show most of these mounds consist of siltstone boulders and quartz chunks and pebbling. There are usually dozens o...

On the 24 to 25 September, a voluntary group of 16 (Sat) and 9 (Sun) called together by myself, all the way from Agulhas, Bredasdorp, Greyton and Muizenberg, supported by the Swellendam Hackers Team, did a botanizing recce of Hessequaskloof Farm (farm 660 of the Klipfontein mountain, destined for Manganese Mining) to count how much biodiversity we could record.

This was bundubashing at its best, climbing over rocky crops (where some lovely species were found such as the Holotrix,...

Today I went on a walk near the Pine Tree Reserves on my walk back to the Reservoir Apartments after class. It was a very nice day out with the sun shining and a cool dry 67ºF. There was minimal wind and many people were walking around and biking around the reservoir. The 5 wild life observations I made for this day was a Eastern Gray Squirrel, Canada Goose, a Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Dandelions, and the Woolly Hedgenettle. I saw the bee, the dandelions, and the Woolly Hedgenettle in t...

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September marks the end of summer, and the start of fall. The amount of insects we see starts to decrease, while we see more of the fall migrants passing through.

The project increased from 6141 to 6369 observations (+228), 1551 to 1587 species (+36), and 151 to 152 observers (+2).

Our number of Research Grade observations increased from 3801 to 3...

Superfamily Asiloidea

.  family Asilidae (Robber Flies)
.  .  Atomosia puella ~4 obs.
.  .  Dioctria hyalipennis (Stripe-legged Robberfly) ~3 obs.
.  .  Efferia aestuans ~20 obs.
.  .  Holcocephala calva ~3 obs.
.  .  Laphria sericea complex ~2 obs.
.  .  Laphria canis complex ~2 obs.
.  .  Machimus sadyates ~3 obs.
.  .  Neomochtherus sp. ~3 obs.
.  .  Ommatius sp. ~2 obs. ...

The Golden Moles (Chrysochloridae) comprise 21 species in 10 genera and 2 subfamilies. Some 18 species are endemic to southern Africa (with Chrysochloris stuhlmanni,, Calochlris leucorhina & Calochlris tytonis being outside).
For ID note the fur colour and roughness, skull size, relative sizes of foreclaws 1, 2 and 4. Of taxonomic importance is the malleus (the hammer bone in the inner ear), and the mallear vesicle that houses it, but this requires skulls.

Subfa...

For this nature walk, I walked through Pine Tree Preserve on campus to the reservoir where I then explored some woodsy areas off of the paths. The weather was cooler this morning than it was on the last nature walk I went on, and it was overcast. Similarly to on my first nature walk, however, I was surprised by how much fungi I was able to observe–especially now that I was looking for it. As I continued my walk, I learned to look in a few common places in which I tended to find fungi: on...

What a beautiful colaptes auratus!

We're glad you've made a number of observations but try to identify some of the observations you've made. You may be omitting a step in the process. Once you upload the images, you then need to click "what did you see?" Once you click that, iNaturalist will provide ID suggestions for you. Then select the best choice out of the five or so given.

Keep it up! See if you can ID the next dozen images you upload.

Keep up the good work! See if you can document another dozen plants/animals before Friday.

Have discovered several American Bullfrogs are now inhabiting the river section from Irvington Road to Ajo Way whilst relocating a Colorado River Toad in the area. Went back yesterday to get photographic evidence which can be viewed below:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137373008

Order Afrosoricida Golden Moles and Tenrecs
Order Hyracoidea Dassies
Order Macroscelidea Sengis
Order Proboscidea Elephants
Order Sirenia Sirenians
Order Tubulidentata Aardvarks

CORYTHODERINI
Termitophilous Scarabs of the Tribe Corythoderini: A taxonomic review (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238608945_Termitophilous_Scarabs_of_the_Tribe_Corythoderini_A_taxonomic_review_Coleoptera_Aphodiidae

POSSIBLY RELATED TRIBES AND and termitophilic genera....

Starr Elementary has done an awesome job in the bioblitz. Keep up the great work.

Es ist absolut beeindruckend, wie wir in der Kürze der Zeit - sowohl auf die Ankündigung des Projekts bezogen, als auch auf das teilweise sehr verregnete Wochenende (nur 2 gute Beobachtungstage) - so viele Arten beobachten konnten.
Eine Woche nach Projektende verteilen sich die 419 Artenfunde auf 850 Beobachtungen. Insgesamt waren über 100 Beobachter beteiligt, alleine über 80 Schülerinnen und Schüler des Bunsen-Gymnasiums Heidelberg suchten fleißig nach Arten am Neckar. Karsten hat ...

Genera:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=46511,46557,46788#6/-26.264/26.576

Myosorex Forest Shrews
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=46799,46793,46798,46790#6/-26.713/26.267

Sunchus Dwarf Shrews

Some 4 genera and 17 species are found in southern Africa at present.
These are:

Myosorex Forest Shrews
4 spp (features: colour, tail length, size, palates)

• tails lack long bristles
• teeth have extra tiny premolar (I3/2 C1/2 P2/1 M3/3 = 32

Sunchus Dwarf Shrews
3 spp (features: measurements - CI and toothrow)

• very small (<70 mm HT)
• tail with long hairs sparse among short bristles
• as...

Greetings.

Friends of Serene Valley would like to invite you to their Biobitz

Date: 20 October 2022
Time: 09H00- 11H00
Venue: Serene Valley, Garsfontein ext.5 Meet at the sliding gate in Gilda St. corner Godfrey St.
Hosted BioBlitz will be for 2 hours but gate in Lola Ave is open every day from 06H00 to 18H00.
Anyone can enter if prefer to come another day during GSB days (28-31 October).
Group focus: Everyone is welcome.
Organizer: Carol Martin

Over the past few years someone ’ve been periodically working on a flashcard web application, which you access here:

https://learnthe.land/ 12

If you give it your location, you can decide where you want to study, what taxon, and then it’ll automatically incrementally load more flashcard. There’s a scoring system, and basic spaced repetition algorithm so you’ll see flashcards you don’t know more often than the ones you do...

W Polskich lasach występuje rzadki grzyb Siedzuń sosnowy.

W Polsce uznawany był za gatunek rzadki. Znajduje się na Czerwonej liście roślin i grzybów Polski. Ma status R – potencjalnie zagrożony z powodu ograniczonego zasięgu geograficznego i małych obszarów siedliskowych. Znajduje się na listach gatunków zagrożonych także w Belgii, Estonii, Litwie, Norwegii, Łotwie. Wbrew ustaleniom czerwonej listy w Polsce jest jednak dość częsty.

Występuje w lasach iglastych i mieszanyc...