July 26th Insect Survey at the Growing Center (Recap)

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Event > 🐞 Plant Visitor Survey at the Growing Center

Thanks for helping us yesterday! Here is our session log.

Our Site log is also publicly available > here

Our documentation is listed in our Plant Survey Protocol > here.

And specifically here are the info sheets that we used in the field with you:

• EwA Common Species Groups Info Sheet
  
• Teá’s Butterfly Info Sheet

Date	07/13/19
Site	Growing Center
Surveyor’s Names	Claire + Jeanine + Renee + Elizabeth
Time	9:00-10:30 am
Weather	Sunny
Approximate Temperature	71°F - 81°F (21.66°C- 27.22°C)
Foot traffic (low, medium or high?) Low < 5 | Med 5-10 | High > 10	High ☑ (about 20 kids + 10 adults)

Conducted Tasks Highlights of the program to our EwA volunteers. Review of the transects + explained iNat photo-documentation Selected a few tree candidates for the caterpillar count + marked the branches, and set the survey plants on CC  1st survey of our 2 circles with Elizabeth.

Observation of the Day: Small Carpenter bee  [iNat record >]

Session Records

• Biodiversity session records (all taxa) > 

• CC count records > CC GC count visualization to date > / See also CC iNat records > 

Circle 1	FCO (1) ☐ FCP (2) ☐ FCQ (1) ☐ FCR (0) ☐ FCN (1) | Tot = 5
Circle 2	FCS (0) ☐ FCT (0) ☐ FCU (U) ☐ FCV (5) ☐ FCW (W) | Tot = 5

Notes | Author: Claire 

• Biodiversity: It’ll be interesting to record what the trees we picked are feeding. So far, herbivory is very low, which might not be surprising considering that most of these trees are non-native. The photo-documentation along the path might lead to more biodiversity as native plants have been plants. 

• Claire-Todo > Check the dogwood spp., the Filbert sp. And the crab apple sp. On GC’s map.

• Claire-Todo > Get Jeanine’s pics of marked trees (trees on iNat / tags from Jeanine’s shared link)

• Spotted a monarch again, and a cabbage white.

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Thanks, - Claire