NYBG EcoQuest November 2017 – Week One
INVESTIGATE INVASIVES!
November 1–7
Nineteen naturalists have made eighty observations of Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Japanese Angelica Tree (Aralia elata), Italian Arum (Arum italicum) and Porcelain-berry (Ampelopsis glandulosa) and associated organisms. A new infestation of Italian arum was just discoverd in the Bronx River Forest by NYC Parks staff. Your observations will help them manage these problems.
Observations: 80
Places: Bronx, 30; Manhattan, 26; Queens, 17; Staten Island, 7; Brooklyn, 0.
Observers: @susanhewitt, 18; @bioethics, 15; @mpitaro, 13; @cbarron, 7; @laura622, 7.
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