June 15th, 2025 Before lunch
This morning we went out to ONTS, NICE, TOWER, GC, SGC to continue working on the capture, marking, and recapture of Agapostemon virescens (cute lil green bee). Although we tried our best the weather and the pollination state of the Echinaceas wasn’t the best, we were only able to see one new bee, and recapture one already marked bee. After the bees we came back to Hjelm to eat lunch, my sandwich was amazing! 🙂
June 15th, 2025 After lunch
After lunch we split our team into three forces, Maddie S. and Gael (me) went out to outline Staffensons, Chelsea and Aaron went to finish decapitating Echinacea pallida ☠️, and Kyra, Maddie D. and Grace went to continue twist tying… or at least that was our plan IF IT WASN’T FOR THE RAIN! It started pouring outside and we had to run back to hjelm (more like drive but you get the idea) I was dripping wet. 🙁
The good thing was that thanks to the storm my car got all sparkly clean (at least from the outside) and we were able to finish counting the number of stipa seeds, so I would say we were very productive!
June 16th, 2025 (Today) Before lunch
This morning we went out to P01 and P08 to pull some sweet clover, it was the perfect weather for this activity, after the rain it’s always SOOOOO easy to pull it out (please don’t try to pull sweet clover when it’s dry, my hand still hurts a lil bit 🙁 ), and after that we all went to P01 to verify the stipa records. The morning activities were… wet, unfortunately I discovered a hole in the boots I was wearing and the fact that I was wearing jeans made everything more uncomfortable.
June 16th, 2025 (Today) After lunch
After the wet morning we went back to Hjlem to eat lunch. My lunch was really good (thanks dad). After lunch we went back to the planned activities for the afternoon from yesterday. Maddie S. and Gael (me) went out to finish marking the perimeter at Staffensons, we had to walk A LOT but it was really cool to see so many prairie plants! After that we came back to Hjelm and the team was continuing twist tying, and I had time to work on my personal project (you’ll see what I mean in a couple days 😉 ).
That was it for today, keep checking the flog to see more of our shenanigans! Love you byeeee.
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