"In the 1890s, the first leg of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was created to transport produce from Sarasota to the Tampa Bay market. The project skirted two large mangrove islands called the Otter Keys and would generate the spoil that would be the basis of the uplands we now call the Sister Keys." - https://www.sisterkeys.org/

Since the creation of these islands and their uplands, various species of arthropods have migrated to them. This project is meant to document and track the diversity of the arthropod species that have and will colonize these islands. less ↑