Hoover Elementary Bio-Blitz

Overview: Each year in the spring, the Hoover fourth grade students go out into the woods around Hoover to collect information about the changing wilderness around us. The following slides show an overview of the results. Date Collected Student Slideshow Helpers June 6, 2016 Sadie Jaggers Norah Mahoney Ronan Melville Sam O’Donnell

Woody Stem Plants Species 2016 2017 2018 Asiatic Bittersweet Black Cherry 1 Black Locust 4 Common Buckthorn Glossy Buckthorn Honey locust 0.5 Japanese Barberry Multiflora Rose 1.5 Norway Maple 25

Vertebrates Species 2016 2017 2018 American Robin 1 American Toad Baltimore Oriole Black Capped Chickadee 0.5 Blue Jay Eastern Chipmunk Eastern Garter Snake Gray catbird Gray Squirrel House Sparrow 4.5 Raccoon Red-Backed Salamander

Herbaceous Plants Species 2016 2017 2018 Black Swallow-wort 92 Catchweed Bedstraw 24.5 Common Burdock 7.5 Garlic Mustard 940 Ground Ivy 3 Japanese Knotweed 10 Jewelweed 200.5 Mugwort 1875 Poison Ivy 5.5 Virginia Creeper Jack-in-the-Pulpit 0.5

Invertebrates Species 2016 Carpenter Ant 100.5 Centipede 2 Cockroach 2.5 Cricket Earthworm 27 Ground Beetle 7 Ground Beetle Larva Harvestman 6 Millipede Spiders 3 Species 2016 Sow Bug 725 Small Ant 2775 Red Velvet Mite 2.5 Inchworm 1 Ichneumon Wasp 0.5 Slug Gnat 11 Earwig Fly Moth

Average Tree circumference 5 7 6 4 Outdoor Classroom Area 3 Path 1 2

Tree Number Average Circumference 2 016 2017 2018 Tree 1 16.1 Tree 2 10.5 Tree 3 9.25 Tree 4 9.5 Tree 5 11.6 Tree 6 11.2 Tree 7 15.2