There is an iNaturalist event coming up this month. Participate from your yard or local park.
City Nature Challenge, Friday, April 24 to Monday, April 27, 2020.
I have the iNaturalist app on my phone. It is a good tool for identifying plants and the insects they host. When I'm using the app I have the best luck getting a correct ID if I upload several closeup photos of different parts of the plant. The app will also tell me if certain plants have been seen in that area before. I feel more confident about my ID if someone else has found the same plant there before.
St Louis has an event coming up soon called the City Nature Challenge. This is an activity that you do alone in nature with the iNaturalist app. It is a competition between cities to see who has the most biodiversity in their city. Anyone can participate in the event. Every ID that is made in St Louis using the app is uploaded to the project and counts towards our cities biodiversity.
The City Nature Challenge is a fun way to be a part of a large citizen science project that provides valuable data about urban biodiversity. The challenge is from Friday, April 24 to Monday, April 27, 2020. Participants can upload their observations to the app anytime during those 4 days. Any observations you upload using iNaturalist will automatically be added to the challenge.
More info about City Nature Challenge
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