Journal archives for February 2020

February 2, 2020

Species not to forget...

Zimmermannia liebwerdella
Eresus kollari

(read about on facebook or in discussions...)

Posted on February 2, 2020 07:10 PM by martingrimm martingrimm | 17 comments | Leave a comment

February 12, 2020

A Call to Grass

Hi everyone,

I stumbled over this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28990168 of Cynosurus cristatus yesterday, which @bobwardell helped to identify. In checking the stats on the taxa page https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/76581-Cynosurus-cristatus I found that we have only 12 observations in Germany so far, though wikipedia says it is a quite common grass, though locally listed as endangered. But looking at the GBIF data points in the map, it seems it should not be so difficult to get some more observations of it at iNat, though it seems to be advantageous to explore in Bavaria.

Digging a bit further in Poaceae it seems that many grass species are way too overlooked in general.

Poaceae observations in Germany: ~ 3000 observations with 161 different species sounds maybe not to bad. But a big chunk of them are not surprisingly Phragmites australis (266) and some others, and many, I assume, unidentified deeper than Poaceae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=de&place_id=7207&preferred_place_id=7207&subview=grid&taxon_id=47434&view=species

So I would like to give a Call to Grass for some of them (completely arbitrarily chosen ;-), their visuals seem catchy enough to remember them), which hopefully raises other Poaceae observation counters as well.

Any additions to the list, especially from a more expert point of view, are welcome!

Happy exploring!
Monika

Posted on February 12, 2020 07:07 PM by mobbini mobbini | 33 comments | Leave a comment

February 14, 2020

Say hello to the targeted species

(This blog entry is just in order to loosely collect/link all surrounding information that was given in comments or other journal posts of this project in one source)

Animals // Tiere

Insects // Insekten

Beetles // Käfer (Coleoptera)

Bugs // Wanzen (Heteroptera)

Butterflies // Schmetterlinge (Lepidoptera)

Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Locusts // Heuschrecken (Orthoptera)

Hymenopterans // Hautflügler (Hymenoptera)

Flies // Fliegen (Diptera)

Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies // Schnabelfliegen (Mecoptera)

Plant-parasitic Hemipterans // Pflanzenläuse (Sternorrhyncha)

Spiders // Spinnen (Araneae)

Plants // Pflanzen

Mosses // Moose

Grasses // Gräser (Poaceae)

got included in challenge in this blog entry: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inat-challenge-germany/journal/30717-a-call-to-grass


Notes

  • Species that are taken out of the challenge will not be actively added into the project anymore. Still, if anyone found the species and would like to have added it into the challenge to grab the species point for ranking in the challenge, just raise your hand in the comment :-)
Posted on February 14, 2020 07:05 AM by mobbini mobbini | 92 comments | Leave a comment