Week 5 - Jai's 2025 Nature Roundup 🗑️

3/Feb/25 - Week 5 of 52

1. Introduction
2. Notable Observations
3. Goal Progress

Shit week, I'm not writing an essay for y'all either, this is a filler episode LOL. It sucks, but whatever.

Save your kudos for next week, maybe I'll find something then

Notable Observations

Common garden springtails galore except not really galore cause there's not even 20 of them

Total Observations: 19

Most numerous species: Entomobrya intermedia (5 observations)

Individual Interesting Observations

Marsh Springtail (Isotomurus palustris)
Friday (Jan 31st)

Not uncommon, but I'm limited in what I have to work with here, so may as well show off this cool guy.

Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis
Friday (Jan 31st)

Very common species in my garden, and not an uncommon sight across lots of the UK. However, very interesting nonetheless. One, it's name sounds a pit like penis. Two, it's actually a species local to Chile. Three, most populations of this species are actually fully asexual, so seeing a male is a rare sight! This one looks to be female however.

Breakdown

(lol^^)

Goal Progress

All Spp. (99/1000) ▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱

Bird Spp. (37/100) ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱

Anyway, still managed one new species for the list, so not a total failure. To see all my observations for this week logged on iNaturalist, click here.

To see all of my observations for the year to date, click here.

What did you see this week? Let me know in the comments!