Helping Identify Unidentified Organisms

As a starting point for this task of identifying unidentified organisms, I narrowed my search to the Greater Phoenix area where I grew up. I was hoping that in doing this, some of the observations that came up as needed identification would be ones that I had grown up around and seen numerous times. This was the basis for my first six or seven identifications, most of which were cacti or other desert plants that I was able to identify down to the genus or species. My dad had a landscaping company until I was 8 and we have a lot of these plants around our house, so I was able to use what I saw growing up as my knowledge for identification. One of my observations in the Orange County area was giant kelp, which I was able to identify because I took marine bio last year, and our semester project was to collect, identify, and press seaweed. I was able to specifically identify plants much more easily than animals (in this case mostly bugs), as I have had more exposure to plant classification than insect classification. This made me hesitant to identify species level classification in the grasshopper, cricket, and insect observations. The spider I was able to do relatively easily because we have wolf spiders around my house and I have seen then many times before. For many of these identifications I used my prior knowledge and exposure to these organisms to identify common characteristics and use that as my method for naming these organisms.

Posted on 30 de março de 2020, 07:05 PM by

lillianniccum

Helping Identify Unidentified Organisms

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