Thank you!
Thanks everyone for joining SBCCC and BioBlitz.club for a fall BioBlitz! We had such a fun event, after a long break. We were guests in the beaver territory of Los Gatos Creek, documenting the many feeding marks on willows and almonds around the beaver dam.
The creek and trail area is home to many native and non-native species, including many plant species. We documented 44 plant species, including some trees and shrubs that were probably planted by the trail. Some of these trees, although planted, support a wide diversity of insects, birds, squirrels, and other animals.
Inside the creek, we found fish, flatworms, non-native crayfish, and aquatic insect larvae - mayfly, dragonfly, and damselfly. We saw some beautiful adult dragonfly and damselfly - Flame Skimmer and American Rubyspot, among others.
And galls! This is fall gall season, so we looked at some valley oaks, and found 12 gall species on them!
This is such a great spot, with so much to discover - join us for our next event!
