1. Hoover Elementary Bio-Blitz

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Average Tree circumference5 7 6 4
Outdoor Classroom Area 3
Path 1 2

8. Tree Number
Average Circumference
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