Who: Everyone! When: April - Sept. What: Photograph any Life forms. *non-domesticated and non-human life forms.
Where: Jericho and Underhill
How: Create an iNaturalist account on your computer or smartphone and upload your photos, selecting the Vermont Atlas of Life project.
Jericho & Underhill Life Search
From birds to butterflies, your biodiversity sightings can make a difference. Contribute to a Crowdsource Project and join our growing community of citizen naturalists in discovering and sharing observations of Vermont life.
The iNaturalist program maintains a biodiversity database by city and town in Vermont and ranks them for the number of species, observations, and observers at this link. As of May 2023, Jericho ranks 10th in species with 2,014.
Observations Species City/Town Rank (species) Observers
June: 26,992 2,093 10th 809
Bernie Paquette, a local naturalist, and photographer, explains the Jericho & Underhill Life Search project and talks about how nature observations in the Green Mountain State can enhance your life in his blog at this link.
Also view the corresponding Jericho, Underhill, VT Life Search - Insect Observation Journal
What are insects?
Insects are everywhere.
Insects are creatures that have bodies with three segments that are protected by a hard shell. They have three pairs of legs and a pair of antennae. A lot of insects also have two pairs of wings.
Insects are beneficial to us - many help with pollination of plants so that they can create fruits for us to eat, and make seeds to grow more plants. Insects are important in agriculture, medicine, forensics, and more, and inspire many science and engineering projects.
We take insects for granted because they are everywhere in our lives. Yet exploring the insect world can be easy, rewarding, and educating, especially for children. Many biologists and insect scientists started off as curious young people who went outside to see what was there.
- Royal Entomological Society
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