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Species seen in 2016 as of the last of July, with the tally from last month in parenthesis:
vascular plants: 685 (485)
mosses: 207 (195)
insects: 191 (104)
lichens: 138 (103)
birds: 97 (87)
fungi: 83 (63)
other invertebrates: 48 (42)
other vertebrates: 19 (14)
other plants: 6 (4)
total: 1474 (1097)
It is the season of vascular plants and insects. Sooo many moths this week; I've been luring them into the porchlight at night and taking photographs. Actually I've hardly looked at moths at all before, and it's a lot of fun and not that hard. They're beautiful! Also I've been digging in cow shit to find various species of dung beetles. Cow shit: not actually that disgusting; you can tell it's mostly grass.
I am more than 200 species ahead of my main competitor, but then he is better at insects than I am and might pull ahead in the fall/winter when he can sit down and look at what he's collected in the summer.
vascular plants: 685 (485)
mosses: 207 (195)
insects: 191 (104)
lichens: 138 (103)
birds: 97 (87)
fungi: 83 (63)
other invertebrates: 48 (42)
other vertebrates: 19 (14)
other plants: 6 (4)
total: 1474 (1097)
It is the season of vascular plants and insects. Sooo many moths this week; I've been luring them into the porchlight at night and taking photographs. Actually I've hardly looked at moths at all before, and it's a lot of fun and not that hard. They're beautiful! Also I've been digging in cow shit to find various species of dung beetles. Cow shit: not actually that disgusting; you can tell it's mostly grass.
I am more than 200 species ahead of my main competitor, but then he is better at insects than I am and might pull ahead in the fall/winter when he can sit down and look at what he's collected in the summer.
