Help us make IDs - and share cool finds!
We've entered phase II of the City Nature Challenge - Uploading and ID/Verification. For observations to counts towards the official City Nature Challenge tally, we have through the end of the day Sunday 5/8 to upload all images taken during the CNC. As observations continue to roll in this week, we need your help to identify and verify as many as possible - to enhance scientific validity of each observation and make note of any interesting or exciting finds. Here's how to help:
ID & Verify on your own
- Browse through Utah's Wasatch CNC project & make ID's when possible
- Please ID to the best of your ability - do not over-step your expertise.
- Come across cool observations (fun photos, interesting finds, unique observations, etc.)? Tell us about them in the comments of this post!
Join City Nature Challenge iNaturalist ID Parties!
We'll gather for two in-person events to look through and discuss observations together. Bring a laptop or mobile device. Novice and experienced iNaturalist ID-ers welcome
- Join us in-person at Utah Valley University from 4-6pm on Tuesday 5/3
- Join us in-person at the Natural History Museum of Utah from 5-8pm on Wednesday 5/4
Comments
@tigerbb, have you come across any interesting/cool/exciting Arachnid or Arthropod observations in the Utah's Wasatch project?
Okay, I can't stop looking at all the great observations! I just have to take a moment and list some of my favorites so far. But it won't even come close to capturing all the beautiful arthropod finds. So many lovely butterflies, ladybugs, honeybees, and more!
Here are a few I thought were worth a stop by...
this cool waterscorpion found by @tug! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115108830
this comical looking fly found by @tobiashays https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114929044
I'm always a sucker for a dust-covered masked hunter nymph @kurtsanders https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114945213
stoneflies are like traveling back to prehistoric times @david26781 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114904510
such a fitting name for this gorgeous spider @bugtonsquare https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114881058
a first record for Utah on iNat! @bob649 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114862612
and also from @bob649, this one was just too funny! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114485851
this super cool ant mimic jumping spider! @tobiashays https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114110989
this little predatory snout mite with a pokey schnoz @e_set https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114054334
a slender entroph?! apparently this is a bristletail.😮 @hmcentire https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114017922
and this pretty little six-spotted orbweaver from @bugtonsquare https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114011907
What an amazing showing, by the micros and the macros!
And look at this owlfly larva!! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114108475
They cement themselves with debris and wait for prey. That jaw trap in photo #3!!!!
Here's another first record for Utah on iNat! Hope this little bark beetle isn't too much of a baddie @mjudkins
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113919808
Okay, last one. It's another Utah first on iNat! This little sparkly beetle plays tricks with the eyes (and cameras). Awesome find @hmcentire
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114001290
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