Something New

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who have contributed your observations to the Spiders of Minnesota Project and thereby have increased our knowledge of Minnesota's spider fauna. I expect that we will surpass 9,000 observations for the project in the next couple of days.

A number of your observations have been significant in that they have provided new information about Minnesota spiders. Many observations have represented new county records and there have even been a few new state records. With a list of 519 species known from Minnesota (as of 16 June 2022), finding a state record is particularly difficult, especially when you are not looking for them intentionally.

Here's a few of those state records that iNaturalist observers have added to the Minnesota spider list:

Posted on June 27, 2022 03:38 PM by cheins1 cheins1

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