Archivos de Diario para abril 2020

domingo, 05 de abril de 2020

Nature at Home

A couple weekends ago I participated in a friendly competition with members of the unofficial iNaturalist Discord server to see who could find the most species only on their own property. I really enjoyed the challenge of trying to find new species while restricted to a suburban yard and I think I did pretty well! Most of the plants had not started coming up yet, and many of these species could be seen on a warm day in the middle of the winter. I'm curious how many more species I could get in the summer with the use of a moth light etc.

Thanks to many identifiers I have over 85 leaves for the weekend, so in addition to 16 bird species I heard and noted on eBird I recorded over 100 species. You can see my observations from the challenge here and the project in general here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inaturalist-discord-march-weekendblitz-2020

The highlights for me were getting:

  • At least 5 species of millipedes
  • At least 4 species of isopods
  • 4 species of slugs
  • A huge (relatively speaking) soil centipede that I'd never seen before
  • Two flatworms
  • A pseudoscorpion

Thank you to the Discord server mods for organizing this and to everyone else who participated, particularly @erininmd and @tammym4748 for keeping the competition up!

Publicado el domingo, 05 de abril de 2020 a las 08:43 PM por upupa-epops upupa-epops | 2 observaciones | 1 comentario | Deja un comentario

martes, 21 de abril de 2020

Julida Millipedes of Ontario and nearby areas with links to resources

yet another work in progress...

Julidae

Brachyiulus

Cylindroiulus

Ophyiulus pilosus

Julus scandanavius

Blaniulidae

Okeanobatidae

  • Okeanobates americanus

Parajulidae

Aniulus

  • bollmani
  • paludicolens

Oriulus venustus
Uroblaniulus

  • canadensis
  • stolidus

General Resources:

Hennen & Brown, 2021, Millipedes of Ohio Field Guide

Shelley 1988, The millipeds of eastern Canada (can't find public access)

BMIG, Millipedes of Britain and Ireland

Chamberlin & Hoffman 1958, Checklist of the Millipeds of North America

Hoffman 1999, Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America

Chicago Field Museum millipede annotated bibliography

https://archive.org/details/Diplopoda1985/mode/2up

Langor, Dewaard, & Snyder 2019, Myriapoda of Canada (no species info)

Millipede & Centipede Identification Resources, from Derek Hennen

Key to the families of the order Julida in North America, from Derek Hennen

BugGuide - Order Julida

Matthew Vosper, Key for the Identification of the Millipedes of the British Isles from Photographs

Publicado el martes, 21 de abril de 2020 a las 05:38 PM por upupa-epops upupa-epops | 4 comentarios | Deja un comentario