Almaden QuickSilver Spring 2019 BioBlitz's Journal

Meet Your Nature Neighbors project
URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/meet-your-nature-neighbors

Get to know your nature neighbors! Now that we're all sheltering in place, let's use the time to get to know our local environment. Please upload observations taken in your home or within walking distance from your home. Let's see what we could document together!

Each day we will post a daily nature neighbor to look for on our social media. You could try and find it, or anything else you'd like to document.

This is a joint collaboration with BioBlitz.club and Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, Sequoia Audubon, and Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. If your organization is interested in joining in, please PM @merav.

*Share on social media if you'd like using #sfbaynature
**If you don't want to show your home address, you can manually adjust the observation address to a nearby location, such as street intersection less ↑

Please join Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful for our next Almaden Quicksilver BioBlitz on Saturday, 11/16, from 9-11. The park looks very different now compared with the spring. Help us find our who's out there this time of the year!
For more info and RSVP - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/almaden-quicksilver-fall-2019-bioblitz-registration-70977829599
For info about future events - join my mailing list or follow my website - https://www.bioblitz.club/

Thanks everyone for attending and helping in this amazing BioBlitz! Over 100 people attended the BioBlitz, documenting 313 species in over 1,700 observations (and counting!). The weather was perfect, the flowers were beautiful, and the kids were great. We documented 166 plant species, including many spring flowers, and also many native trees and shrubs, with a remarkable number of 7 oak species.
We found many caterpillars, feeding on all this green matter. Many of the caterpillars belong to the Geometridae family, also known as inchworms. One of them was feeding on a poison oak - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22614201
We documented many beetles, including click beetles, Metallic Wood-boring Beetles, weevils, lady beetles, and many soldier beetles that were foraging on the wildflowers, searching for aphids to eat.
We even found 4 species of slime molds and 23 species of fungi, including a fungus that feeds on slime molds - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22545939
Please join our next public BioBlitz next Sunday, 4/28 at Hellyer Park - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hellyer-county-park-spring-2019-bioblitz-registration-54310419928
It will be part of the City Nature Challenge - a global iNaturalist competition!
Merav