The 2018 City Nature Challenge is underway and wait, what? YOU haven't hear about this? K. A little backstory. Year 1: LA vs San Francisco, Who has the most urban biodiversity? SF wins. Year 2: More cities in the continental US join in. Dallas wins. Year 3: CNC goes international and Maui joins in with the fun. Now into day 2, we aren't doing badly and some of you are getting into it!
Any observation you make on Maui or Molokini will automatically be added to the CNC Maui project. You don't have to do anything other than the usual photograph, ID and location to join in. The challenge runs until midnight local time on Monday April 30. Please join us!
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@lylegordon discovered an Anemone Stinkhorn Fungus (Aseroe rubra) in the north Maui mountains. The smelly brown slime attracts flies, which help spread the spores. Read more about it here: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/381310-Aseroe-rubra and see Lyle's observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11669407
This year's City Nature Challenge is well underway. We are now on day three of four and Maui just crossed 100 observations yesterday. If you are reading this, you can contribute! Even if you are not on Maui, we need help with IDs - we still have several "unknowns." If you are on Maui, yesterday's rainy weather has passed and this is a chance to get out and explore a bit today. I hope you can take even a few minutes and add an observation or ten. Remember, this is the City nature challenge. Even if you see some weeds in the parking lot, they are fair game. While a shot of a Nene at Haleakala would be cool, we are looking for any and all natural history observations (and help with IDs).
Adding observations is easy if you are on Maui. Just complete your observation and you'll automatically be added to the CNC over the next two days. The cut off is April 30 at midnight, local time.
Check out the event here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2018-maui
We are now on day three of four and Maui just crossed 100 observations (and 80 species) yesterday. If you are reading this, you can contribute! Even if you are not on Maui, we need help with IDs - we still have several "unknowns" and lots of observations that need one more supporting ID to become "Research Grade."
If you are on Maui, yesterday's rainy weather has passed and this is a chance to get out and explore a bit today. I hope you can take even a few minutes and add an observation or ten. Remember, this is the City nature challenge. Even if you see some weeds in the parking lot, they are fair game. While a shot of a Nene at Haleakala would be cool, we are looking for any and all natural history observations (and help with IDs). Also, don't worry about duplicate observations, while new species are always nice to add to the list, we are trying to understand distributions of plants, animals, and fungi with the iNaturalist platform. So, repeat observations from different places or different days are useful too!
Adding observations to the challenge is easy if you are on Maui. Just complete your observation and you'll automatically be added to the CNC over the next two days. The cut off is April 30 at midnight, local time. I'd also encourage your adding and Maui observations to the "Maui" project. You'll need to select that project from the appropriate menu to do that.
Happy observing!
