Our Entomology class was one of the participants featured in a Bioblitz exhibit! This panel display at right was in the Mann Library at Cornell, Nov 2018 - Jan 2019.
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For our field trip, our class took part in a local BioBlitz, which is an 24-hour dash to survey as much biological diversity as possible in an area; people with various areas of expertise come together to do a comprehensive count. For this event we used our skills in collecting, observing, trapping, identifying, photographing, and documenting insects.
The Cayuga Nature Center has had their plant species well-documented, but this is the first time there will be a baseline estimate of other organisms present (some of the other taxonomic groups surveyed included: fungi, microbes, aquatic invertebrates, mammals, birds, lichens, molluscs, spiders, etc.). Participants uploaded records to the biodiversity site, iNaturalist.org. |