Important update about deadline

Hi - the leadership team has decided that the last day to upload or update your Bioblitz observations here on the Bioblitz project will be May 31 at midnight. Still, the last day for actual observations is May 15. We just want to give everybody more time to get your photos and observations uploaded and identified.

And please, go in an help with identifications of the groups that you know at least a little about. We have plenty of observations that need. If you are unsure about an ID, put in a comment. Thanks to all of you that are helping with this.

This spring has been awfully cold, but now it is gorgeous outside. Time to look for insects and spiders (take good photos, often they are enough to ID to genus at least), lichens, fungi, spring flowers, warblers, and small things that live in water and under logs and leaves. The moths are out flying at night too, and I have seen several butterflies, tiger beetles, etc. The invertebrates, fungi, and protists are good groups to find new things.

Update on the numbers: We are about to pass 2000 species. Last year we saw about 2500 species, but that included a lot of food species, which are not allowed this year. So we need to about 500 species to break the record, and I know several of you are sitting on these species and have not yet uploaded them (Claes, hello!). As for number of observations we have already bypassed last years record. Fantastic job everybody, I hope you are learning a lot and having fun!

Lena

Posted on April 29, 2015 12:12 PM by vilseskog