Aug 15th Insect Survey at the Growing Center (Recap)

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Event > 🐞 Plant Visitor Survey at the Growing Center

Thanks for helping us this afternoon! Below is our session log. We'll be back in the field next week. Stay tuned! 

📈 This Site log is also publicly available > here

Our survey 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	08/15/19
Site	Growing Center
Surveyor’s Names	Claire + Jennifer
Time	1:30-3:30 pm
Weather	Sunny / Beaufort Scale: 1
Approximate Temperature	~25-23°C (77-73°F)
Foot traffic (low, medium or high?) Low < 5 | Med 5-10 | High > 10	High ☑ // 25 adults + 13-15 kids + 2 EwA surveyors.

Conducted Tasks Program highlights + method training of new CitScientists Photo survey of the arthropod along the upper path and at large. Observed and recorded our 2 caterpillar count circles. Session Records Biodiversity session records (all taxa) >  CC count records > CC GC count visualization to date > / See also CC iNat records >	Observation of the Day: Sphex pensylvanicus [iNat record >]
Circle 1 FCO (0) ☐ FCP (1) ☐ FCQ (1) ☐ FCR (1) ☐ FCN (1) | Tot = 4 Circle 2 FCS (0) ☐ FCT (1) ☐ FCU (2) ☐ FCV (5) ☐ FCW (0) | Tot = 8 Notes | Author: Claire

→ Discussed with Liza about next year possibility of formalizing the program (by having it listed in the GC site)

→ Checked with Lisa the identification of some of our survey hosting trees + ask for the updated plan of the garden (+ tree chart).

🔎 Spotted a monarch (maybe even the same one than last time), Eastern Bumblebees, Honeybees, Black wasp & others, Hoppers...

ⓘ More About EwA Citizen Science Program » https://tinyurl.com/ewa-citizen-science

Thanks, - Claire