During this year’s BioBlitz, I betrayed Philadelphia and joined the Greater Burlington area! I spent most of the four days working with the UVM Horticulture Club, planting trees and tulip bulbs. I also walked around campus with my lovely girlfriend Allie Brown. I found a ton of plants and insects, but unfortunately no mammals or rodents.
I had a very pleasant time using iNaturalist, but I think that was partially due to my experience using iNaturalist on my own. I didn’t know how to use the project feature that well, but the information provided on brightspace allowed me to find out how to work it.
I encountered 12 species, most of which were plants found in and around campus, I included some of the trees and flowers I planted with the horticulture club, like the Freeman’s Maple and various species of tulips. I also identified a rove beetle that landed on me. We also went to the Jeffords back gardens where we found tons of really cool looking perennials and shrubs. Overall, campus proved to have a huge range of species.
I checked my old communities bioblitz page, the one I used to participate in, and usually we get at least 400 observations and around 200 species, but this year they (Philadelphia) only got 200 observations, a crazy big change and a big difference from Burlington, having over 4,000 observations this year.
