Colorado naturalist looking to find as many species as I can. Still working through my Peruvian backlog, I've made it midway through January 2020.

My primary life goals aside from being an entomologist/arachnologist is to see 10,000 different identifiable species and then once that is accomplished-- 20,000. I also want to see at least one individual from every insect order and from each of the extant arachnid groups. All of these sightings must also be done in the wild.

Spent 6 months at a research station in Peru back in 2019-2020. Where I was studying arachnids, herps, birds, mammals, and butterflies, and how well they were coming back in regenerating rainforest.

The last several years I've been focused on intensely inatting Colorado, the surrounding west, several areas of the eastern US, and even the Cayman Islands! I have lots of backlog in a lot of these areas so expect me to upload more from these regions for years to come!

I am also currently working on a lichen equivalent to BONAP using specimen + inaturalist data.

Obs from profile pic:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182727333

Insect orders 26/27 (Just Notoptera left!)
Arachnid groups 12/17
Myriapod groups 13/23

Check my socials:
https://linktr.ee/TheWildBiologist

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