A few years ago, I got obsessed with native plants. Then, COVID happened and I had a lot more time for gardening and observing wildlife in the garden. So, I’ve spent a lot of time this year, obsessively stalking insects and cataloguing plants with iNaturalist. My lists include 56 birds, 66 bees, 34 …

So impressed by these numbers you people are getting. I need to get outside more :grimacing:

Your website looks fine to me. Single column on my laptop - device responsive - no white space. A substantial chunk of your readers will anyway be restricted to a single column view on cellphones. This one? https://friendsofvalledeoro.org/abq-backyard-refuge/

[image] bobmcd: I need to get outside more I need to get smarter about 1) taking better photos, 2) where to look in my yard for life, and 3) when to go outside to have better odds of seeing life. (Sigh.)

This thread is so much fun to read, thank you all! I have had a balcony for the first time in my life for about 3 years now. (I have never had a garden.) I don’t have an iNaturalist project to collect all the species that I found there. And I have very basic knowledge of Nature. But I do enjoy obs…

[image] egordon88: Do you monitor diversity in your garden? How often, how much time do you spend, and what have you found? I do! and I have been trying to do it more, lol. Time I spend really varies, because I am so busy, but I will do about 15 minutes in the garden per day, sometimes more, …

1,150 insect species now on the yard list, thanks to 300+ nocturnal insects this year. I meant to write a blog post at 1,000 and got distracted by life. So I am succeeding at the monitoring part and currently failing to spread the message beyond iNat. Thanks for sharing your story!

[image] giannamaria: but I will do about 15 minutes in the garden per day, sometimes more, sometimes less I pretty much do the same. I have about 200 bonsai (only half are actually bonsai, the rest are just pre-bonsai material) so I often get to take pictures of whatever happens to be on them…

I feel like a bit of a cheater here. I don’t really have a “garden” anymore. I’ve let the exotics from the previous owner’s garden die of natural causes. The rest of the five hectares is mostly young forest having been logged over years (30 to 50 maybe?) ago. I keep meaning to do a weekend bioblitz…

Re: spreading the message I’ve been helping a colleague identify her photos of the bees (plus a few hoverflies) that have been visiting her balcony plants. I also used the opportunity to give her a “bees, wasps, and ants” field guide that I had purchased before discovering that I wanted something a…

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giannamaria July 5, 2023, 1:36pm 131

Wow, I need to look at your lifelist, this is a lot!

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