Tag: Alberta

68/150: Did you know scorpions live in Canada too?

Jun 12, 2017

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Linley Sherin

in #Biodiversity150

animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Scorpiones: Vaejovidae: Paruroctonus: Paruroctonus boreus (Girard, 1854) Paruroctonus boreus, or the Northern Scorpion, is native to British Columbia and Alberta and is the only species of scorpion found in Canada. Though a relatively common species, it is rarely seen due to its nocturnal nature. However, like all scorpions, P. boreus glows under…
DNA barcoding and Malaise traps capture the remarkable diversity in Canada’s National Parks

Jan 13, 2016

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Kate Perez

in Back at the Lab, Blog, Canadian National Parks, Canadian Wildlife, DNA Barcoding

Hi everyone! As some of you may know, we here at BIO spend a great deal of our field work sampling in Canada’s beautiful National Parks. In fact, from 2012 to 2014, BIO and Parks Canada partnered up to complete a massive national barcoding project that aimed to map out the country’s arthropod biodiversity: the…