Tag: Pacific Rim National Park
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39/150: Are they centipedes or….??
animalia: Arthropoda: Symphyla: Symphyla order incertae sedis: Scolopendrellidae Also known as symphylans or garden centipedes, pseudocentipedes are only distant relatives of true centipedes! They are actually more closely related to pauropods and millipedes of the same subphylum Myriapoda.
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A Tale Of Two Parks
Hey folks! I hope everyone is enjoying their Spring! I sure have been. Everything here in BIO Collections is going well. There has been some standardized sampling done at the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge (see Shannon’s, Josh’s, or Danielle’s blogs for more details!). Everyone is also getting geared up for the Don River…
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Natural treasures of the west coast of Vancouver Island
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve of Canada is a thin strip of land along the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island and is characterized by rugged coasts and lush temperate rainforests. Imagine white sandy coastlines, eagles soaring overhead, ferns, and cushions of moss hanging from the branches of towering Sitka spruce, and the ocean stretching off…
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A Trip Well Worth Taking
Hello faithful readers, I’d like to start this blog post by saying how glad I am that I was able to take two trips on the BIObus. It’s been a long road, and I enjoyed every beautiful bug, landscape and duct tape filled second of it. It will nice to be home next week, but…