Last week we had our annual BioBlitz at the CMBO Center for Research and Education (CRE). A BioBlitz is an event that is aimed at identifying as many species as possible within a certain area within a certain amount of time. In our case, our BioBlitz took place at CRE on September 15th, 2022. We had guided walks throughout the day and held presentations about planting native gardens for wildlife, our Healthy Land and Waters Grant, the Monarch Monitoring Project, and ended the day with a Mothing Session led by Sam Galick.
In total we identified 162 species, including 70 plant species, 48 insect species, 33 bird species, 6 mammal species, 3 fungus and lichen species, 1 reptile species, and 1 amphibian species. Below is a list of all the species that we identified throughout the day. Be on the lookout next year for our Fall BioBlitz taking place at the CMBO Northwood Center!
| Plants |
| Yarrow |
| White Snakeroot |
| Persian Silk Tree |
| Common ragweed |
| Big Bluestem |
| Common Mugwort |
| Trumpet Vine |
| Oriental Bittersweet |
| Hackberry |
| Spotted Knapweed |
| Sensitive and partridge peas |
| Firewood |
| Sweet Pepperbush |
| Asiatic Day Flower |
| Blue Mistflower |
| Gallformers |
| Deer Tongue Grass |
| Purple Love Grass |
| Common Boneset |
| Late Boneset |
| Grassleaved Goldenrod |
| Fennel |
| Rose of Sharon |
| Maryland Golden-Aster |
| Japanese Hops |
| Live-forever |
| American Holly |
| Winterberry Holly |
| Walnut |
| Eastern Red Cedar |
| Bush Clover |
| Sweetgums |
| Trumpet Honeysuckle |
| Wax Myrtle |
| Mulberry |
| Bay Berry |
| Eastern Pricklypear |
| Low Pricklypear |
| Oregano |
| Woodsorrels |
| Switchgrass |
| Virginia creeper |
| American Pokeweed |
| Black Cherry Tree |
| Clustered Mountainmint |
| Southern Red Oak |
| Willow Oak |
| Shining Sumac |
| Winged Sumac |
| Muliflora rose |
| Sheep Sorrel |
| Willow |
| Lyreleaf Sage |
| Sassafras |
| Little Bluestem |
| Greenbrier |
| Roundleaf Greenbrier |
| Seaside Goldenrod |
| Indiangrass |
| Meadowsweet |
| Trailing Fuzzy-Bean |
| Eastern Poison Ivy |
| Great Mullein |
| Purpletop Bervain |
| Wingstem |
| Arrowwood Viburnum |
| Cranberry Viburnum |
| Wild Grape |
| Grim |
| Persimmon |
| Birds |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Canada Warbler |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Northern Flicker |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Black Vulture |
| Blue Jay |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Gray Catbird |
| Traill’s Flycatcher |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Bald Eagle |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Black and White Warbler |
| Norther Waterthrush |
| Common Grackle |
| Northern Parula |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Yellow Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Tree Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| White-eyed Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Mourning Dove |
| Fungus |
| Smoothcap Moss |
| Cedar apple rust |
| Brick Cap Mushroom |
| Lepidoptera |
| Green Cutworm Moth |
| Yellow Garden Spider |
| Red-banded Leafroller |
| Redbanded Leafroller Moth |
| Pill Bug |
| Aster-head Eucosma Moth |
| Slowpoke Moth |
| Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
| Ilea Underwing |
| Garden Tortrix |
| American Ladybug |
| Orange Verbena Moth |
| Mosquito |
| Monarch |
| Zimmerman Pine Moth |
| Common Pug Moth |
| Subterranean Dart Moth |
| Grapeleaf Skeletonizer |
| Cloverworm (green) |
| Buckeye Butterfly |
| Explicit Arches Moth |
| Wolf Spider |
| Black Corsair |
| Elegant Grass Veneer Moth |
| Housefly |
| Coastal Scissor Grinder Cicada |
| Lyric Cicada |
| Sorghum Webworm Moth |
| Lucerne Moth |
| Dung Beetle |
| Dung Beetle |
| Blue Dasher |
| Wood Cockroach |
| Cloudless Sulpher |
| Cabbage White |
| Skipper Butterfly |
| Northern Paper Wasp |
| Diminutive Grass-Veneer |
| Dotted Renia |
| Aricgera Flower Moth |
| Blue-winged Wasp |
| Carolina Praying Mantis |
| Chinese Praying Mantis |
| Celery Leaftier |
| European Hornet |
| Eastern Carpenter Bee |
| Amphibians & Reptiles |
| Leopard Frog |
| Musk Turtle |
| Mammals |
| Field mouse |
| Bat sp. |
| Skunk |
| Racoon |
| Eastern Cottontail |
| Red fox |
