So close! The team is 91% done measuring P1!
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Friday was our first true day of total demo! After thorough instruction and review, Team Echinacea was off to the races as we PGORY’d our way through our first few sites! Already 6.9% done!  Today, Ruth and Amy joined us to measure Amy’s Annex! We are now 81% done measuring P1, so close!  After a brief break from measuring yesterday, the team was back in action today. We are now 69% done measuring p1!  Today was Harrison’s last day with us 🙁 Stuart made a prairie-inspired cake to honor his time with the project. He is returning to teach young minds about ecological research. Farewell, Harrison, and good luck!  The team also conducted floral abundance surveys. Essentially, we want to see how many plants (and what kinds) may be associated with ground-nesting bees. That requires feet on the ground to estimate abundances and identify plants.  Lastly, a battle occurred today. While the crew did demography of echinacea plants- where we record data on this year’s flowering plants- I was stung by two wasps. Luckily, Lindsey was prepared to retaliate, though it wasn’t necessary.  All in all, farewells can sting, but at least there’s cake in the end. 57% done and completely done with the 99s garden, which was a nice change of scenery! We’ve now entered 99n garden.  44% of the way done! Woo! Next we’ll be entering the 99 North Garden (the green section remaining in the northeast part of the plot).  29% done, made it into Big Batch! These rows are on the meter instead of the half meter, which feels a lot faster than half meter rows.  22% done, another effort made this morning with 4 pairs!  Yesterday, the team began measuring our biggest common garden experiment, P1! This plot has 10,992 positions that were planted with Echinacea. Yesterday, 3 teams of pairs went out for about 3.5 hours in the morning and knocked out 1,140 positions and 14 segments for over 10% of P1! I’m excited we made so much progress the first day! Below is map that visualizes progress. Stay tuned for today’s update.  |
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