Päiväkirja-arkisto kohteelle huhtikuu 2020

huhtikuu 5, 2020

Nature at Home

A couple weekends ago I participated in a friendly competition with members of the unofficial iNaturalist Discord server to see who could find the most species only on their own property. I really enjoyed the challenge of trying to find new species while restricted to a suburban yard and I think I did pretty well! Most of the plants had not started coming up yet, and many of these species could be seen on a warm day in the middle of the winter. I'm curious how many more species I could get in the summer with the use of a moth light etc.

Thanks to many identifiers I have over 85 leaves for the weekend, so in addition to 16 bird species I heard and noted on eBird I recorded over 100 species. You can see my observations from the challenge here and the project in general here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inaturalist-discord-march-weekendblitz-2020

The highlights for me were getting:

  • At least 5 species of millipedes
  • At least 4 species of isopods
  • 4 species of slugs
  • A huge (relatively speaking) soil centipede that I'd never seen before
  • Two flatworms
  • A pseudoscorpion

Thank you to the Discord server mods for organizing this and to everyone else who participated, particularly @erininmd and @tammym4748 for keeping the competition up!

Julkaistu huhtikuu 5, 2020 08:43 IP. käyttäjältä upupa-epops upupa-epops | 2 havaintoa | 1 kommentti | Jätä kommentti

huhtikuu 21, 2020

Julida Millipedes of Ontario and nearby areas with links to resources

yet another work in progress...

Julidae

Brachyiulus

Cylindroiulus

Ophyiulus pilosus

Julus scandanavius

Blaniulidae

Okeanobatidae

  • Okeanobates americanus

Parajulidae

Aniulus

  • bollmani
  • paludicolens

Oriulus venustus
Uroblaniulus

  • canadensis
  • stolidus

General Resources:

Hennen & Brown, 2021, Millipedes of Ohio Field Guide

Shelley 1988, The millipeds of eastern Canada (can't find public access)

BMIG, Millipedes of Britain and Ireland

Chamberlin & Hoffman 1958, Checklist of the Millipeds of North America

Hoffman 1999, Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America

Chicago Field Museum millipede annotated bibliography

https://archive.org/details/Diplopoda1985/mode/2up

Langor, Dewaard, & Snyder 2019, Myriapoda of Canada (no species info)

Millipede & Centipede Identification Resources, from Derek Hennen

Key to the families of the order Julida in North America, from Derek Hennen

BugGuide - Order Julida

Matthew Vosper, Key for the Identification of the Millipedes of the British Isles from Photographs

Julkaistu huhtikuu 21, 2020 05:38 IP. käyttäjältä upupa-epops upupa-epops | 4 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti