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Mammal Monday
Here’s a just-published study of mammal diversity in the NYC area. Not surprisingly, “mammal species richness was higher in greenspaces with larger patch sizes and lower in greenspaces surrounded by more development. […] diversity and evenness were higher in urban natural landscapes than human-altered landscapes.” Fifteen taxa, including Homo. Small rodents were lumped together at…
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Real Bugs
Spittlebugs, leafhoppers and treehoppers are in the infraorder Cicadomorpha, which, as its name suggests, also includes the cicadas. Heard my first of the year over the weekend of the 4th. Was standing by a tree with one sounding off in it, unseen, and spotted the shed exoskeleton of the nymph stage.
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