100 Species roundup

[urbpan]

So that's done, and I'm relieved as usual. I like doing this project, confined to my own property to find species, it felt right. I am sheepish about probably misidentifying the spring cankerworm, and possibly the white pluteus. Even worse, I doubled number 42 and skipped number 55! Someone still needs an editor.

Here's the list:

1. British soldier
2. fungus gnat
3. chicken
4. convergent ladybird
5. yellow sac spider
6. European starling
7. common grackle
8. redback salamander
9. ailanthus altissima
10. oriental bittersweet
11. Japanese knotweed
12. garlic mustard
13. dark-eyed junco
14. American robin
15. song sparrow
16. Four lined fringetail
17. northern wolf spider
18. english garden snail
19. phiddipus audax
20. dandelion
21. chickweed
22. garter snake
23. glory of the snow
24. daffodil
25. snowdrop
26. eastern subterranean termite
27. flatback millipede
28. pillbug
29. Western conifer seed bug
30. domestic cat
31. large yellow underwing cutworm
32. rough stinkbug
33. grape hyacinth
34. Japanese pachysandra
35. Oyster mushrooms
36. Callery pear
37. Tulip
38. petticoat daffodil
39. velvet mite
40. mica caps
41. common blue violet
42. green bottle fly
42. dwarf cinquefoil
43. little house fly
44. poison ivy
45. March fly
46. japanese cherry
47. white pluteus
48. lily-of-the-valley
49. northern red oak
50. spring cankerworm
51. Triangles on her big butt spider
52. black medick
53. bagworm
54. dead man's fingers
56. woodchuck
57. striped harvestman
58. red lily beetle
59. brown lacewing
60. yellow hawkweed
61. cabbage white butterfly
62. dog tick
63. toadflax brocade
64. common whitetail dragonfly
65. dog vomit slime mold
66. oriental beetle
67. green lacewing
68. house centipede
69. sunflower maggot fly
70. sunflower
71. yellow jacket hover fly
72. slavemaking ant
73. giant casemaker
74. long-necked seed bug
75. frowny-face moth
76. yellow toadflax
77. toadflax weevil
78. American toad
79. maple leaftier
80. Clay-colored weevil
81. Canada goldenrod
82. honeybee
83. red-legged grasshopper
84. lamb ear
85. jagged ambush bug
86. common bird's nest fungi
87. brown-and-white striped leaf beetle
88. yellow bear
89. Funnel-weaving grass spider
90. purple-spored puffball
91. bicolored bolete
92. ringless honey mushroom
93. abortive entoloma
94. cross orbweaver
95. Hypomyces chrysospermus
96. Porodisculus pendulus
97. winter crane fly
98. Concord grape
99. earwig
100. winter moth


Of course, this is not a scientific list. The species are preselected by being interesting to me (I didn't feel like doing any slugs this year), by holding still long enough for a photograph (thus no squirrels or blue jays, the most common vertebrates in the yard), and by my ability to identify them.

There were 36 insects and 12 fungi species; it felt like these were the only two taxa for much of it, but they are my favorite, and arguably the most important taxa.

There were 27 plant species, 13 cultivated and 14 wild. I also feel sheepish for including so many cultivated plants, but I do need to learn them. On reviewing them I still had to double-check the names. ("Some blue thing" I wrote for glory-of-the-snow).

There were eleven vertebrates, including 6 birds (including the chicken), 2 amphibians, 1 reptile, and two mammals (one wild, one domestic). Two were photographed dead. I'll try to not do that for next year's project.

There were nine arachnids, including six spiders.

The balance was one species each of mollusk, millipede, centipede, crustacean, and slime mold.

Next year I hope to get more slime molds and fungi, maybe some more herps, and definitely try to get some more birds photographed.

Thanks for reading!

Comments

[callipygian80.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed reading these entries. Many everyday things have become more clear, and I've learned about lots of new things. Looking forward to the next installment!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting! I'll try to keep being interesting. :)