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luzulaMy final number was 2220 species! \o/ My closest rival among my friends had just over 2000. Overall, I was in 13th place in Sweden, and the only woman among the top 30 (which is kind of sad). Here is a ridiculously detailed breakdown by category:
Vascular plants: 888
- of which 851 phanerogams and 37 cryptogams
- of these, 47 species or 5 % are new to me
- I have seen 44 % of the vascular plants in Sweden, which are about 2000 (but this differs depending on whether you count garden escapees and how you count the apomictic groups like dandelions and hawkweeds)
Invertebrates: 435
- of these, 358 are insects, of which 189 species or 53% are new to me
- I have seen 1.4% of all the 25 000 insect species in Sweden (ha haaa)
Breakdown of insect groups:
- 144 lepidoptera (of which 46 butterflies and 98 moths); this is 5% of Sweden's 2700 lepidoptera species
- 49 beetles, or 1% of Sweden's 4400 beetle species
- 44 hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants, etc), or 0.6% of Sweden's 7500 hymenoptera species
- 44 flies (mostly hoverflies), or 0.7% of Sweden's 5900 fly species
- 24 hemiptera (shield bugs etc), or 1% of Sweden's 1740 hemiptera species
- 19 dragonflies and damselflies, or 34% of Sweden's 56 dragonfly and damselfly species
- 16 orthoptera (grasshoppers and bush crickets), 42% of Sweden's 38 orthoptera species (that's more like it!)
- 18 others
Breakdown of the 77 non-insect invertebrates, of which 28 or 36% are new to me:
- 33 mites (these are all gall-forming plant mites, which are host-specific and recognizable by their galls)
- 15 centipedes and millipedes (16% of Sweden's 94 centipede and millipede species)
- 13 molluscs (11 snails and 2 clams)
- 4 woodlice
- 3 jellyfish
- 9 other
Mosses: 302 (of which 56 hepatophytes and 246 bryophytes)
- of these, 56 species or 19% are new to me
- I have seen 28% of the 1060 mosses in Sweden
Fungi: 235
- of these, 143 species or 61% are new to me
- I have seen 6% of the maybe 4 000 "large fungi" in Sweden, or 2% of the maybe 10 000 Swedish fungi species in all. Ha haaa.
Lichens: 202
- of these, 42 species or 21% are new to me
- I have seen 10% of the 2100 lichen species in Sweden.
Birds: 123
- of these, 8 species or 7% are new to me
- this is 49% of the breeding bird species in Sweden, but only 25% of all the bird species ever seen in Sweden
Algae: 14
- 10 new to me
- ...I have no idea of the number of algae species in Sweden.
Reptiles and amphibians: 9
- of these, 2 species are new to me
- I have seen 45% of the 20 reptile and amphibian species in Sweden.
Mammals: 9
- none new to me
- I have seen 12% of Sweden's 75 wild mammal species.
Fishes: 5
- one new to me
- I have seen 4% of Sweden's 140 fish species (I am just not good at fishes...).
Funny how a high proportion of new-to-me species goes together with having seen a low proportion of Sweden's total number of species in that category. Or I guess that's not strange at all; it's just a function of there being a huge number of species in that category.
So, this was a lot of work--I have an excel sheet with coordinates and dates for all of these 2220 species, and they are reported into the Swedish species reporting database. Whew. It was fun, but I'm not doing this again for a long time!
Vascular plants: 888
- of which 851 phanerogams and 37 cryptogams
- of these, 47 species or 5 % are new to me
- I have seen 44 % of the vascular plants in Sweden, which are about 2000 (but this differs depending on whether you count garden escapees and how you count the apomictic groups like dandelions and hawkweeds)
Invertebrates: 435
- of these, 358 are insects, of which 189 species or 53% are new to me
- I have seen 1.4% of all the 25 000 insect species in Sweden (ha haaa)
Breakdown of insect groups:
- 144 lepidoptera (of which 46 butterflies and 98 moths); this is 5% of Sweden's 2700 lepidoptera species
- 49 beetles, or 1% of Sweden's 4400 beetle species
- 44 hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants, etc), or 0.6% of Sweden's 7500 hymenoptera species
- 44 flies (mostly hoverflies), or 0.7% of Sweden's 5900 fly species
- 24 hemiptera (shield bugs etc), or 1% of Sweden's 1740 hemiptera species
- 19 dragonflies and damselflies, or 34% of Sweden's 56 dragonfly and damselfly species
- 16 orthoptera (grasshoppers and bush crickets), 42% of Sweden's 38 orthoptera species (that's more like it!)
- 18 others
Breakdown of the 77 non-insect invertebrates, of which 28 or 36% are new to me:
- 33 mites (these are all gall-forming plant mites, which are host-specific and recognizable by their galls)
- 15 centipedes and millipedes (16% of Sweden's 94 centipede and millipede species)
- 13 molluscs (11 snails and 2 clams)
- 4 woodlice
- 3 jellyfish
- 9 other
Mosses: 302 (of which 56 hepatophytes and 246 bryophytes)
- of these, 56 species or 19% are new to me
- I have seen 28% of the 1060 mosses in Sweden
Fungi: 235
- of these, 143 species or 61% are new to me
- I have seen 6% of the maybe 4 000 "large fungi" in Sweden, or 2% of the maybe 10 000 Swedish fungi species in all. Ha haaa.
Lichens: 202
- of these, 42 species or 21% are new to me
- I have seen 10% of the 2100 lichen species in Sweden.
Birds: 123
- of these, 8 species or 7% are new to me
- this is 49% of the breeding bird species in Sweden, but only 25% of all the bird species ever seen in Sweden
Algae: 14
- 10 new to me
- ...I have no idea of the number of algae species in Sweden.
Reptiles and amphibians: 9
- of these, 2 species are new to me
- I have seen 45% of the 20 reptile and amphibian species in Sweden.
Mammals: 9
- none new to me
- I have seen 12% of Sweden's 75 wild mammal species.
Fishes: 5
- one new to me
- I have seen 4% of Sweden's 140 fish species (I am just not good at fishes...).
Funny how a high proportion of new-to-me species goes together with having seen a low proportion of Sweden's total number of species in that category. Or I guess that's not strange at all; it's just a function of there being a huge number of species in that category.
So, this was a lot of work--I have an excel sheet with coordinates and dates for all of these 2220 species, and they are reported into the Swedish species reporting database. Whew. It was fun, but I'm not doing this again for a long time!
