During the Bio-Blitz, I explored Centennial Woods and areas along the sidewalk leading to the woods. Normally I just pay attention to the nature in Centennial and don’t notice anything as I walk over, but this time I identified a couple of plants along the way to increase my knowledge. In total I encountered 11 species, most of which I wasn’t previously familiar with. I really enjoyed using iNaturalist, it’s such a simple app to use and I love how people from across the world come together to identify species and contribute to citizen science.
Looking at the BioBlitz leaderboard, it looks like La Paz in Bolivia is leading the way with 109,395 observations and 6,095 species. San Antonio is in second place which is surprising to me, because it isn’t an area I previously considered to have a great amount of biodiversity. This goes to show though that my idea of nature isn’t fully accurate. I also found it funny that the most observed species in Washington DC is Eastern Poison Ivy. This is also a little bit sad though, because there may not a lot of biodiversity in the area and poison ivy is growing invasive.
