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For this nature walk, I intended to walk around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, since I had never gone before. When I got there, it was windy and pretty chilly. The sky was overcast and dark, which added to the cold weather. As I started walking around the Reservoir, I quickly realized that I wasn't finding any fungi there. The ecosystem by the path mostly consisted of dry dirt and many fallen leaves. There was not much moist soil or tree trunks that hosted any type of fungi, so I decided t...

Hello and welcome to our first seasonal bioblitz! This blitz will last from October 24, 2022 through October 30, 2022 with no specified location constraints. In accordance with the seasonal theme, 1 extra point will be awarded to teams with “creepy crawlie” observations (Class Arachnida) in addition to the standard points (1 individual observation = 1 point). The winning team, top individual observers, top spec...

I walked around the Hammond Pond Reservation on Tuesday afternoon. It was around 1:30 pm and the air had a slight fall chill to it. It was 57 degrees Fahrenheit and very cloudy out. The weather felt as if it was going to storm any minute - luckily the rain held off for my walk. The main purpose of my walk was to observe fungi, but additionally, I came across lots of diverse species. While looking in one small region of the reservation, I came across low alpha diversity, but high beta div...

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Weather was good, so I took a walk to Webster Conservation area until I reached Hammond Pond. This time, I entered the woods from a different path that was nearer from my dorm and I liked it better than the last time since it was more quiet and remote (last time, I took a walk too close to the street and the traffic was too loud). The difference I noticed was that many of the plant species I observed from the previous walk turned brown and withered (I could directly feel the change in se...

This evening, I went on a walk around the Hammond Pond trails for about an hour. I started at about 6:00 pm, so it was relatively dark when I was exploring. The temperature was roughly 55 degrees and it was raining. I saw several types of fungi on my walk, including mushrooms that grew on the ground and some that grew on trees. I think it's interesting that fungi form from eukaryotic multicellular organisms and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. When asexual reproduction occurs, ...

Today ended up being cool, typical of fall around here, with a breeze that carried on throughout my half hour here. I went around noon. It was overcast, and the soil around here was dry for the most part, which, I imagine, contributed to the difficulty of finding fungi other than lichen, though the tree stumps, dead leaves, and a couple of other green places in the area seemed to have some fungi that I am tempted to call mushrooms. It seemed that there were two or three types of lichen i...

Here we go folks.

For the upcoming Biofest, the first amazing local biodiversity enthusiasts we’re celebrating are Adam and Ian.

Accruing several decades of observing birds in the Otways, who better to lead our two morning bird spotting sessions for the Otway Biofest.

Their great guidebook – Colac Otway Birds is the number one selling book, flying 😊 out of Cow Lick Bookshop Colac.

Adam has reinvigorated his passion for birds and expanded into photogr...

For this week's nature walk, I went to the reservation around Hammond Pond. The scenery there was absolutely stunning, and there were steep rock faces that felt almost otherworldly. The weather was quite chilly and damp, but it felt fitting for searching for fungi. The biodiversity that I noticed there was also remarkable - there were countless types of fungi, trees, flowers, moss, ferns, and animals. Since fungi are a bit more difficult to spot, I first looked at the decaying matter - f...

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In recent Posts, I have shown remarkable variation among species/subspecies in two genera of babies, namely Ourebia and Raphicerus.

I now turn to Madoqua.

The larger-bodied app. of Mado...

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為了慶祝這個好消息，將於2022/10/3-2022/10/11舉行全臺灣的生物速查活動，
鼓勵所有使用者利用iNaturalist平台觀察、鑑定、分享更多這片土地上的生物多樣性。

本次生物速查活動會蒐藏所有臺灣的野生生物，
鼓勵所有臺灣的自然觀察家，
挑戰10天內盡可能記錄到更多筆觀察記錄、物種，以及俗名包含臺(台)灣的生物。

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Since it was going to rain in an hour, I decided to go back to the Pine Tree Reservoir right on campus. I walked around 1pm--it was a cloudy afternoon with a temperature of around 50 F. The wind made it colder as I roamed through the little reservoir. Last time I walked through the Pine Reservoir I remember seeing more diversity in fungi. However, this time there was barely any visible--this could be due to the colder weather and maybe fungi have trouble thriving during colder temperatur...

Today I went on a walk around Houghton Garden. It was pretty chilly and windy, and the sky was gray and cloudy. While walking around, I saw many different types of trees, some of which had labels on them. When I first started looking for fungi, I wasn't really able to see any, but as I wandered further through the garden, I found some interesting fungi! Most of them were on trees or rocks. It was interesting to see how different they looked. I also saw lots of plants and heard some birds...

Today I went on a stroll in Boston College's Pine Tree Preserve on the hunt for fungi! The beginning of my journey was a little disappointing because I could not find fungi for the life of me. Then, I changed my strategy and started to look in the nooks and crevices of stumps and rocks. To my surprise, fungi was everywhere to be found. Even in some small nooks, I could find several species of fungi. The biodiversity of fungi in a small area was shocking. There was one rock where I found ...

Keller, K., K. Brown, S. Atkinson, and R. Stone. 2017. Guide for identifying select bivalve species common to
southeast Alaska. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-341, 25 p.
Document available: http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Publications/AFSC-TM/NOAA-TM-AFSC-341.pdf
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I came back to Houghton Garden, as last time was great. This time I went to a different part of the garden that I hadn't explored on the previous visit. I noticed the garden was much bigger than I had originally imagined on my first walk. During this walk, I focused mainly on finding Fungi, given that it was this week's theme for the nature walk. They were very hard to find, as some were well camouflaged and not always on the ground. For instance, one of the fungi that I encountered was ...

For this week's iNaturalist walk, I walked along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir looking for fungi. In total, the walk took me about 40 minutes. It was pretty overcast and cloudy with the temp being around 57 degrees with a slight breeze. Since I was specifically looking for fungi this time, it was definitely a more focused walk. I found it really difficult to find different types of fungi because whenever I thought I came across some, it usually ended up being moss. I did end up finding som...

It was very overcast and rainy for my walk and was colder than it has been usually. This made the walk not as enjoyable due to the light rain that persisted. I went to the trails along the Chestnut Hill reservoir and was looking primarily for mushrooms in trees of on the ground as my types of fungi. Honestly, while I am sure there are an endless amount of fungi species all around me, I found these fungi hard to find. There were numerous plants and animals but fungi was not as apparent as...

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On this nature walk, my friend and I went over to Newton Campus (a throwback to last year) and walked along the trails out behind Keyes. The weather was a little bit chilly (low to mid-50s) and it was partly cloudy, but it was nice weather for a walk. During the walk, we came across a mostly dried-up stream that kind of made its own path, so we walked along the rocks and down the stream until we converged with one of the trails. There were a lot of shrubs and different types of trees, bu...

This past Sunday, I exited my dorm and walked down the street towards the Reservoir, entering the woods that abut Chestnut Hill Driveway. It was a cloudy and chillier afternoon, about 54 degrees, and the air was crisp. Throughout my walk, I saw many different plant species as well as wild flowers that I took pictures of. Given the fact that this week was Fungi themed, I additionally found many different types of fungi, although difficult to locate at first. The fungi I found were in diff...

Check out the new article with great artwork published today about our newts - https://ucscsciencenotes.com/feature/the-peril-of-alma-bridge-road/

In this week's iNaturalist observation, I went to Waban Hill reservoir to observe species there. In total, it took me one hour to hiking and discover species. Weather today is a little bit rainy. On the way to the reservoir, I saw the black lichen on the stage besides road. When we arrived, I saw some plant species such as Pepper-weeds, and Chicory. Come back to this week's topic--Fungi, I saw some mushroom which are called Turkey-Tail and Purple-pore Bracket, I think these mushrooms ca...

Dear AIG Team -

Thank you all for your active participation and valuable contributions to the Global Pollinator Watch AIG, 2022 project!

Over the past five months, you have contributed over 400 observations of 150 distinct insect pollinator taxa – providing critical data points to help scientists better understand the presence, diversity, and phenology of pollinators worldwide. Our team will be analyzing your observations over the next month, and we hope that you will j...

Join us in celebration of the initial two years of the Denver EcoFlora Project! The EcoFlora Project was created with the goal to connect our local community with plants in an urban environment. Hear how we accomplished this through monthly EcoQuests, hosted hikes, high school internships and other outreach events, like the Amache rose project. This is a free, online event.

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The walk started off in the Pine Tree Preserve on campus, but I quickly found my way to the reservoir. The weather was very gloomy. At the start of the walk, the sky was filled with clouds, some of which had a grey tint to them, and an average temperature of 57 degrees Fahrenheit, but it was quite windy. By the end of the walk, it started to rain very lightly. I found that the diversity of plant species varied greatly between the Pine Tree Preserve to the Reservoir despite being across t...

For this nature walk, I walked along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and into the nearby wooded lands. The day was windy and gray and 55 degrees. Throughout this walk, I encountered many new species, four being fungi. The two fungi that I encountered were the Star Rosette Lichen, the Brown Purplepore Bracket, the Hairy Bracket, and one of the genus Lachnellula. Lichen can be found on most trees and rocks nearby and is a combination of Algae and Fungi in a mutualistic relationship. In my ele...