📜 EwA Week Highlights: Bug Season Beginnings and an Overlooked Plant

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EwA Highlights
March 31, 2024

Hello everyone!


Thanks for reading the March 31st edition of the EwA highlights. Observations of active insects are beginning to pile up!


📸 Deana took this amazing photo of a red-rot decay stag beetle (Ceruchus piceus) on Wednesday. I love when an arthropod photo has such a crisp focus that you can see the pocked texture of its exoskeleton, and even its individual hairs!


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Deana Tempest Thomas · Scituate, RI · Mar. 27, 2024)


Speaking of bug activity, Kristian spotted this unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis) in Lexington on Wednesday. This solitary bee is one of the very first to become active in the early spring, and it digs a burrow in the ground as its nest.



EwA iNaturalist Record (© kdemary · Lexington, MA · Mar. 27, 2024)


EwA’s most-observed had three most-observed species this week: the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), the northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), and the white avens (Geum canadense, photographed below by Joanne). In the spirit of EwA’s ongoing mission to combat plant blindness (the tendency to subconsciously ignore plants), let’s give the white avens, an early-growing, summer-flowering plant, its moment in the sun.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© joanneteresa · Cambridge, MA · Mar. 25, 2024)


📊 Thanks to everyone for your great biodiversity records this past week, totaling 251 observations of 162 distinct species. If you’re curious about the records from this week that have been validated by the iNat community so far, you can find them » here.


🏆 Running tally: To date, we have recorded 176,186 observations of 10,659 distinct species! Check out our EwA umbrella project, see the details per site/observer, and more » here.


📅 EwA Upcoming Public Events

Ewa Field Events » Check the EwA Spring [ Event details and registration » ] Don’t miss some great opportunities to follow the rhythm of the season in our local habitats and in the local wildlife! Space is limited for all our field events. Wildlife ethics is important to us and we seek to avoid putting the pressure on natural habitats which large gatherings unavoidably do. We are asking our audience to register-and-commit (or cancel when you know you can’t come) to avoid no-shows.


EwA Fieldwork (and Resources)

It’s a great time to join our monitoring programs. Check EwA’s Volunteer Program Calendar 📅  to know when things happen. And if a session is of interest to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to get the rendezvous location.


📅 EwA Sites Map | 🌱 Site Protocols and Guides · Field Rosters · Field Notes » All here! | ℹ️ More about EwA’s Citizen Science Program » Here


❓ Do you have any questions? Don’t be shy. Just email me or reply to this thread. 


That’s all for this week—hope you have a good one!


-Mike

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