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Right now, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of butterflies are arriving in Vermont. No, they're not Monarchs. These are Red Admirals, and about every decade or so, there’s a massive migration northward from somewhere south. It’s one of the many great migrations that often go unnoticed.
A brief overview of COVID in North American wildlife. There is some weird stuff going on here.
New paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution using @gbif mediated data:
Advancing #bee #conservation in the #US: #gaps and opportunities in data collection and reporting 🇺🇸🐝
#CiteTheDOI: ✅
#OpenAccess: ⭐️
IntroductionBee conservation in the US is currently hindered by challenges associated with assessing the status and trends of a diverse group of >3000 species, many of which are rare, endemic to small areas, and/or exhibit high inter-annual variationin population size. Fundamental information about the distribution of most species across space and time, thus, is lacking yet urgently needed to assess population status, guide conservation plans, and prioritize actions among species and geographies.MethodsUsing wild bee data from two public data repositories representing the contiguous US, we evaluated the availability and sufficiency of data for use in species assessments of wild bees. We also examined the number of bee species recorded in each US state and the proportion of species with recent records (2012–2021).ResultsAlthough efforts to monitor bees continue to grow, there remains a massive paucity of data. Exceedingly few records (0.04%)reported both sampling protocol and effort, greatly limiting the usefulness of the data. Few species or locations have adequate publicly available data to support analyses of population status or trends, and fewer than half of species have sufficient data to delineate geographic range. Despite an exponential increase in data submissions since the 2000s, only 47% of species were reported within the last decade, which may be driven by how data are collected, reported, and shared, or may reflect troubling patterns of local or large-scale de...
Fading lights: Comprehensive study unveils multiple threats to North America's firefly populations https://phys.org/news/2024-04-comprehensive-unveils-multiple-threats-north.html
Illuminating patterns of #firefly abundance using #CitizenScience data and machine learning models https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724024720
"#Fireflies, part of the beetle order, are sensitive to various environmental factors, from short-term weather conditions to longer climatic trends, including the number of growing-degree days related to temperature accumulations."
A study conducted by the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment; Bucknell University; Penn State University; and the USDA has shed light on the precarious situation facing firefly populations across North America. The study's results identified multiple factors impacting their numbers, offering a deep dive into how shifting environmental and human factors influence these iconic insects.
A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian
#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
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Cinquefoil Skipper, cinquefoil skipper
(Pyrgus cirsii)
Status: 🟡 Vulnerable
🔍 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39481/10240539
🌐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinquefoil_skipper
#RedList #EndangeredSpecies #ThreatenedSpecies #Biodiversity
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David Ho
Kevin Winker
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René Merced 
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Red List IUCN (unofficial)
Environment | The Guardian US