Crow Island Bioblitz!
By Kate&Camille
Preview
On September 22, 2015 our science class went to the crow island woods for a Bioblitz. We took many different pictures of animals, bugs,and plants. Now we are going to share what we saw with you.
Flowers 🌷
White flowers
When me and Camille saw these flowers, we knew that we had to take a picture because of there look. To and Camille this reminds us of cotton balls.
Yellow flowers
These flowers were very common in the woods. They remind us of corn on the cob.
Orange and yellow flower
This flower was sort of common but was heavy in many different small areas. This reminds camille and I, of cat toy because of its colors.
Animal/bugs 🐛
Catapillar
Camille and I saw the catapillar and was very fascinating to us. The catapillar reminded us of a mustache because it was very fuzzy looking.
Animal evidence
This piece of animal evidence was in the woods many times. Camille and I don't know what the animal was but we have a prediction that it is from a chipmunk.
A flie
This is a fly. The fly had little black dots moving next to it. Camille and I thought that the black things were the babies.
Trees 🌳
Oak trees
These trees are all over the crow island woods. These trees are also little trees compared to the ash trees.
Ash tree
We think this is a ash tree because many ash trees are skinned from the emerald ash borer. This big is destroying a lot of trees in winnetka. #helpsavethetrees
Green tree
Camille and I don't know what kind of type this tree is, so we called it "green tree". These trees were spread out over the woods. They are small but there is a big amount.
What do you think could be done to increase the biodiversity of the crow island woods?
They can plant more trees and protect the ash trees from being killed.
Did you find any species native to Illinois? Any nonnative species? Any invasive species?
Native- squirrels, oak trees and flies.
Nonnative- we don't any.
Invasive- emerald ash borer
What factors might have affected the number of species they found? What kinds of organisms have you probably missed?
The emerald ash borer has decried the ask trees making the population less. Organisms we probably missed is are fungi because we didn't go that far into the woods.
Were species evenly distributed across the site or did you find greater variety in particular areas? If there were distribution differences, where did you find the greatest diversity? Explain.
We found many diferrent varieties in the woods. For example, there weren't alot of ash trees alive compared to the bigger variety of the dead ones.