North side - 5/6/2020

May 6th, 2020 (Wednesday) 9 am – 11:30 am: no new dead newts, but the road was scraped very recently - it was very clean, and the sides of the roads were cleared of vegetation along most of the road. The dead newt I left on the road the week before was still around, but was scraped as well - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45241409.
The weather was a bit cool at first, got a bit warmer later.
Other roadkills - a bumblebee, honey bees, a few darkling beetles, a fly, a wasp, a cricket, and a dried slender salamander hugging many dead carpenter ants.
Coverage: north part - the county park parking lot till the second stop sign.
Rainfall: (MTD: 0 in; YTD: 20.47 in). Data from - http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php
Traffic: 1 truck, 23 cars, 1 motorcycle, 10 bikes, 9 pedestrians. (including some county parks and roads something pick ups)
All county park parking lots were open, no street parking near the first County Park parking lot.

Posted on 08 de maio de 2020, 06:10 AM by merav merav

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@merav, do you think you would've found dead newts if the road hadn't been scraped & cleaned?
There are a lot of dead insects. I didn't realize there would be so many dead insects on the road.

Publicado por truthseqr quase 4 anos antes

I don't know. I just think I might have, as I found a couple ofnewts last week and the week before. A least some of the insects I found were fresh (still soft), so might have died after the road has been scraped. Who knows...

Publicado por merav quase 4 anos antes

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