While the 2021 Riverside Insect Fair is virtual this year, looking for arthropods is still part of the fun. From today through the end of Sunday April 18, the Museum of Riverside is hosting a county-wide arthro-blitz through iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/riverside-bug-out
Whether it's your back yard, or on a trip to Joshua Tree, Riverside City and County have thousands of different insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, scorpions, and other many-legged friends to observe and record - for science!

Don’t know what to do this weekend? How about joining the world’s largest science project? The iNaturalist City Science Challenge was once a biodiversity battle between museums in big cities, but now it’s a global snapshot of life on our planet. From Bratislava to Urubamba, Cape Town to Cape Cod, you can just use your cell phone and the iNaturalist app to photograph and upload the wild world around you. Our “city” is actually the entire Inland Empire, a land that offers deserts and mountains, forests, lakes and regional parks. Don’t like spiders and snakes, how about hummingbirds and wildflowers? Any wildlife you document from April 30 to May 3 will add to the final total of species in the Inland Empire. You’ll be surprised who else lives in your neighborhood. Find out more:
https://www.inaturalist.org/.../city-nature-challenge...