On your mark, get set....Observe!
Less than an hour to go to the start of City Nature Challenge 2024!
The global City Nature Challenge has officially started (as of 5am our time today, Thursday 4/25, which is midnight Friday 4/26 in New Zealand)!
If you're interested in seeing what's going on globally, you can check in on the live results at https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/live , which is the easiest way to see the total numbers since they had to divide into two umbrella projects this year:
North & South America
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-north-and-south-america
Eurasia, Africa, & Oceania
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-eurasia-africa-oceania
Have fun making your observations this weekend - stay safe, connect with nature and help us gain a better understanding of the biodiversity we have in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties!
We can't wait to see what we all find out there!
We'll be looking for interesting observations to highlight both in some CNC infographics and in the results press release, so if you'd like to point our attention to a cool observation, add it in the chat here!
Thank you for your participation!
- Katie on behalf of your Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge planning team
Your local planning team for the Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge includes:
Woodland Park Zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Habitat at Home Program, Green Tukwila / City of Tukwila, The Nature Conservancy in Washington, Washington Invasive Species Council, Washington State Department of Agriculture Pest Program.
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Hi all - Here's one note to to add to the info above about organisms that are in human care or are cultivated by people:
PLEASE help us with data curation by:
Observations: Marking non-wild organisms as "captive/cultivated" when making your observations if you know that the organism is in human care or cultivated (iNaturalist definitions = "Captive / cultivated means that the observation is of an organism that exists in the time and place it was observed because humans intended it to be then and there.", and
Identifying: If you see observations that are clearly of captive or cultivated organisms, mark them as not wild in the Data Quality Assessment section of the observation
There is a big gray area for native plants that are growing and thriving on their own but were planted as part of restoration efforts - we tend to lean towards those being "wild" organisms, but this is definitely an area of debate within the iNaturalist community!
Let us know if you have questions!
Katie
@aruejohns Is doing a great job getting a time series of a slime mold, showing how they change morphology over the course of a few hours:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210321354
Editted to add: How slime molds change morphology over time, not how aruejohns changes!
Neat observation of mating marsh beetles: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212656735
At least, I think they're mating!
Observations by the underwater remote operated vehicle (ROV) from the high schoolers could be another highlight: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rovscience
If the first species-level ID is correct, I observed only the second WA state iNat record of this introduced sawfly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213524232
Monostegia abdominalis was first found in WA state in 2013 (Looney, Chris; Smith, David R; Collman, Sharon J.; Langor, David W.; Peterson, Merrill A. (28 April 2016). "Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) newly recorded from Washington State". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 49: 129–159. doi:10.3897/JHR.49.7104 https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7104 )
Looney and colleagues did not find the species in Pierce county, but I don't know if it's been seen here since. I don't see any Pacific Northwest records of this species (or genus) on the Bug Guide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/319476/data
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