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Last day/hours for City Nature Challenge!

I'm not attending any scheduled events today. But I'll be bopping by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. Perfect weather for a Bee Quest for Habropoda laboriosa, Blueberry Digger Bee.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee-quest-habropoda-laboriosa-blueberry-digger-bee

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bees #Anthophila #BrooklynBridgePark #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing
cc: @darwin

Last day/hours for City Nature Challenge!

I'm not attending any scheduled events today. But I'll be bopping by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. Perfect weather for a Bee Quest for Habropoda laboriosa, Blueberry Digger Bee.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee-quest-habropoda-laboriosa-blueberry-digger-bee

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bees #Anthophila #BrooklynBridgePark #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing
cc: @darwin

Last day/hours for City Nature Challenge!

I'm not attending any scheduled events today. But I'll be bopping by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. Perfect weather for a Bee Quest for Habropoda laboriosa, Blueberry Digger Bee.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee-quest-habropoda-laboriosa-blueberry-digger-bee

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bees #Anthophila #BrooklynBridgePark #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing
cc: @darwin

Last day/hours for City Nature Challenge!

I'm not attending any scheduled events today. But I'll be bopping by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. Perfect weather for a Bee Quest for Habropoda laboriosa, Blueberry Digger Bee.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee-quest-habropoda-laboriosa-blueberry-digger-bee

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bees #Anthophila #BrooklynBridgePark #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing
cc: @darwin

Last day/hours for City Nature Challenge!

I'm not attending any scheduled events today. But I'll be bopping by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. Perfect weather for a Bee Quest for Habropoda laboriosa, Blueberry Digger Bee.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee-quest-habropoda-laboriosa-blueberry-digger-bee

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Bees #Anthophila #BrooklynBridgePark #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing
cc: @darwin

I hope you'll be happy to hear I documented some *teeny* ants today for NYC's City Nature Challenge, @futurebird

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210309851

#CityNatureChallenge #CNC2024 #NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Ants #Formicidae #iNaturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #AmNaturizing

cc: @darwin

2/n This screenshot lists all 65 species. Some summary measures and metrics:

* 65 is 30% of the estimated 217 bee species believed to be present in NYC.
* 24 are known from only a single observation.
* 37 have fewer than 5 observations.
* 9 are kleptoparasites, aka brood parasites or cuckoo species.
* 8 are introduced species.

cc: @darwin

#Bees #iNaturalist #Naturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanGardening #HabitatGardening #GardenEcology #Ecology #Insects #Pollinators

1/n Giddy to share that - thanks to ardent iNaturalist identifiers - I am now up to 65 - SIXTY-FIVE! - bee species in my garden. This, in the geographic center of Brooklyn, NYC, on less than 2,500 ft² / 232 m² / .057 acres.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=125348&taxon_id=630955&user_id=xris&verifiable=any&view=species

cc: @darwin

#Bees #iNaturalist #Naturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanGardening #HabitatGardening #GardenEcology #Ecology #Insects #Pollinators

So, species 1,800 is a caterpillar (larva) of the Virginia tiger moth, Spilosoma virginica, I found 5 years ago at my sister's old place in the Pine Barrens area of New Jersey.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17288591

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

cc: @darwin

2/2 And the other, a small moth that looks exactly like a broken-off piece of a twig.

Ipsilon dart, Agrotis ipsilon.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189965114

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

My two most recent new (to me) species were from my own backyard, barely a month ago. (These are my IDs, so subject to correction!)

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Star jelly, Nostoc commune. Looks like other jelly fungi, but this erupted from the ground, rather than a tree branch.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189964010

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

Forget follower counts.

Who will be my 1800th species on #iNaturalist?!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=xris&verifiable=any&view=species

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature