Projects from West Virginia

#NatureForAll at World Scout Jamboree icon

#NatureForAll at World Scout Jamboree

Connect with nature at World Scout Jamboree with #NatureForAll and iNaturalist!
2018 ENT502 Insect Diversity Challenge icon

2018 ENT502 Insect Diversity Challenge

Insect diversity throughout North Carolina habitats contributed by students of NC State's Insect Systematic...
2021 Regional Contest icon

2021 Regional Contest

A compilation of all taxa observed by the regional office (MS, LA, AR). This can include tracks and other i...
Ants of the Mid-Atlantic icon

Ants of the Mid-Atlantic

This project represents a research initiative to incorporate citizen scientist and myrmecologist to photo-d...
Biodiversity of West Virginia icon

Biodiversity of West Virginia

This project shows the biodiversity of West Virginia. It is also part of the umbrella project Biodiversity ...
Birds of the East USA icon

Birds of the East USA

Discover and learn about birds all over the east US.
Birds of West Virginia icon

Birds of West Virginia

A project for the avifauna of West Virginia.
Cannabis sativa USA icon

Cannabis sativa USA

The goal of this project is to track the impact that growing Cannabis sativa L. (industrial hemp) in agricu...
Caterpillars of Eastern North America icon

Caterpillars of Eastern North America

The goal of this project is to collect observations of caterpillars from Eastern North America. Please help...
Cherokia Citizen Science icon

Cherokia Citizen Science

I’m Fernanda Vasquez-Valverde, a master’s student in the Marek lab at Virginia Tech (https://millipedes.ent...
Class Observations: 2019 Dendrology (PBIO2480) icon

Class Observations: 2019 Dendrology (PBIO2480)

Students submit their weekly observations, at least 20 unique observations. The first picture should be the...
Cortinicara gibbosa (minute brown scavenger beetle) icon

Cortinicara gibbosa (minute brown scavenger beetle)

Cortinicara gibbosa (minute brown scavenger beetle)
Cranberry Wilderness, West Virginia icon

Cranberry Wilderness, West Virginia

This project is intended to inventory life species in the Cranberry area of West Virginia, in the southern ...
Discover WV: The iNaturalist Project icon

Discover WV: The iNaturalist Project

This is the main project for Discover West Virginia. Upload all observations here, and share with everyone ...
Eastern Spotted Skunk icon

Eastern Spotted Skunk

The eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius; a.k.a. "civet cat" or "polecat") was once common across the ...
Fall 2021 Vertebrate Zoology WVWC icon

Fall 2021 Vertebrate Zoology WVWC

The vertebrates observed by students enrolled at WVWC/BIOL 316, Fall 2021. Each student needs to upload 20...
Find the Flowers West Virginia icon

Find the Flowers West Virginia

As part of the West Virginia Climate History Project, blooming dates of spring flowers will be recorded by ...
Flower colors in eastern North America icon

Flower colors in eastern North America

This is a collection of observations of flowering plants throughout eastern North America to aid in my PhD ...
HHS Biodiversity icon

HHS Biodiversity

Study the Biodiversity at Hedgesville High School
Hobbit Hill icon

Hobbit Hill

The purpose of this project is to catalog flora and fauna of Hobbit Hill and surrounding area.
Huntington High APES icon

Huntington High APES

Ecological Lens Activity The purpose of this exercise is to develop your ability to identify the abiotic fa...
Insects of the Mid-Atlantic (USA) icon

Insects of the Mid-Atlantic (USA)

A project focused on providing a means for citizen scientists to add baseline data about insect diversity a...
Kalmia latifolia distribution ecology icon

Kalmia latifolia distribution ecology

For data mining Plant ecology 4330
Lichens in West Virginia icon

Lichens in West Virginia

This project is designed to compile all the observations of lichenized, lichenicolous, and allied fungi mad...
Lichens in West Virginia icon

Lichens in West Virginia

This project is designed to compile all the observations of lichenized, lichenicolous, and allied fungi mad...
Mammalian Species of the Appalachians icon

Mammalian Species of the Appalachians

Help document mammalian diversity within the Appalachian Ecoregion (EPA Level II) of the Eastern United Sta...
Mid-Atlantic  Biodiversity Survey icon

Mid-Atlantic Biodiversity Survey

This project actively collects the observations of the regional biota as a means to document species divers...
My Yard Survey (West Virginia, USA) icon

My Yard Survey (West Virginia, USA)

This is an on-going project to survey all life within the borders of, or seen from, my one acre property in...
Myrmecochores (ant-dispersed plants) in eastern North America icon

Myrmecochores (ant-dispersed plants) in eastern North America

Approximately 30-40% of understory forbs in eastern decidous forests are myrmecochores or ant-dispersed pla...
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NANPA-Regional-Mid-Atlantic

Observations contributed by members of NANPA (North America Nature Photography Association). This project...
National Moth Week 2018: West Virginia icon

National Moth Week 2018: West Virginia

National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths. National Moth Week 2018 is be...
National Moth Week 2019: West Virginia icon

National Moth Week 2019: West Virginia

National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths. National Moth Week 2019 is be...
New River Gorge National River icon

New River Gorge National River

To encourage citizen science at New River Gorge National River and help document species found within the p...
Non-Tracked Tiger Beetles of West Virginia icon

Non-Tracked Tiger Beetles of West Virginia

There are currently six tiger beetle species we do not actively track in the West Virginia Natural Heritage...
Pest Ants of Eastern United States icon

Pest Ants of Eastern United States

This is a project as part of an Undergraduate research course at Hampton University an HBCU. In this iNatur...
Pollinators and Friends icon

Pollinators and Friends

Identify The Ruth Bancroft Garden's smallest visitors! Post a picture of your pollinator (or friend) that y...
Rare Animals of West Virginia Monitoring Program icon

Rare Animals of West Virginia Monitoring Program

The West Virginia Natural Heritage Program (WVNHP) compiles and is responsible for locality-based data for ...
salamanders and newts of virginia and west virginia icon

salamanders and newts of virginia and west virginia

explore the salamanders and newts of virginia and west virginia!
Shawnee State University Biology 3999 icon

Shawnee State University Biology 3999

This project aims to catalog species richness and diversity observed by students taking Biology 3999 at Sha...
Shrews of West Virginia icon

Shrews of West Virginia

The West Virginia Natural Heritage Program is interested in learning more about our shrew communities, in p...
Spring 2020 Cal U Insects icon

Spring 2020 Cal U Insects

Images of insects to help track your insect collection projects for Cal U Spring 2020 Classes. Sadly iNatur...
The Search for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Resistance icon

The Search for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Resistance

The Forest Restoration Alliance (FRA) is appealing to the community to help find healthy hemlock trees to i...
Tracked Tiger Beetles of West Virginia icon

Tracked Tiger Beetles of West Virginia

The West Virginia Natural Heritage Program currently has 14 tiger beetle species we track in our State Wild...
Turtles of West Virginia icon

Turtles of West Virginia

This project is designed specifically to gather data on the abundance and diversity of turtles in West Virg...
venomous snakes of the midwest region icon

venomous snakes of the midwest region

midwest venomous snakes
West Virginia Bee Atlas icon

West Virginia Bee Atlas

Bees found in West Virginia
Wild Janelia icon

Wild Janelia

For members of the Wild Janelia Club to post their sightings and observations!
Wildflowers Of WV icon

Wildflowers Of WV

This is an informal project where I can compare all the wildflowers species I and/or others have seen in WV...
WPMC Summer Mushroom BINGO 2020 icon

WPMC Summer Mushroom BINGO 2020

Throughout the month of July, keep your eyes open for the mushrooms on this list. Then join the WPMC Summe...
WVWC Gen Bio Bioblitz icon

WVWC Gen Bio Bioblitz

Each group should submit 15 photos of different organisms found on the WVWC campus.
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