House of a thousand species

My yard list in New Mexico is a dozen shy of 1800 total species for ~900 square meters of land and dwelling plus ~50 square meters of second floor space.

P.S. I’m not the only one https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/monitoring-gardens-and-spreading-the-message/26094/

Comparing my list to the bar chart above in major categories:
Leps 406 sp (30 lower than study)
Diptera 184
Coleoptera 198
Hymenoptera 285
Hemiptera 209
Plantae 238
Arachnida 62 (1 lower than study)
Aves 67
Fungi 22
etc.

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