Happy July, everyone!
We had two participants reach our challenge goal of 10 species in the last half of June! Congrats to @lisabrundage and @klodonnell (lol).
Shout out to everyone else who made observations during our Solstice Challenge: @clow, @emilyrice, and @josephugoretz!
Stay tuned for a July challenge!
Hey folks!
We're going to have a July challenge posted next week, but in the meantime, check out July's NYC Ecoflora project - Climbing the Walls. It's a project to document plants living on human-built surfaces in NYC. This project is what iNat calls "traditional", meaning that you have to push your observations into it once you join. If you want to participate, here are the steps:
1 - Join the Project - click this link to join the project. Joining allows the project to pop up in your mobile iNat app.
2 - Make an observation of a plant growing on a wall just like you would make any other observation. BUT before you click Save, choose a project from the selection box on the Details screen.
3 - Upload your observation.
Note: This project is only for observations from NYC. Sorry to those folks who are out of town right now.
Stay tuned for more info about our challenge week in July and another Socially Distant BioBlitz later on in the month.
July's MHC iNaturalist challenge will be to find moths during National Moth Week. This annual event is like a worldwide BioBlitz just looking for moths. Leave a light on and see what comes to you! For more info, visit the National Moth Week iNaturalist Project or the National Moth Week website.
For our project, let's see who can find the most moths to add to our collection. Currently, we have only THREE moths in this whole project: a teeny Pug Moth caterpillar I found, this very cool day-flying Nessus Sphinx found by @ccali, and this magnificent Elm Sphinx found by @lisabrundage. Let's get some more!
Challenge Details
Observation dates: Saturday, July 18 - Sunday, July 26
Taxa included: MOTHS! Technically, this means insects in the Order Lepidoptera excluding the Superfamily Papilionoidea (the butterflies).
