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Great Southern Bioblitz
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Biodiversity awareness through citizen science
October 24th-27th 2025 on iNaturalist
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BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Abegorro / Bombus rubicundus
🏞️: Saraguro - Provincia de Loja
📷: Daniel Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #iNaturalistEc #CienciaCiudadana #SomosInaturalistEc #Abegorro #Insectos
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A Superb Fairywren 'Malurus cyaneus' from a recent visit to Adelaide
#inaturalist #328340243
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsofoz #wildoz
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#SomosInaturalist #China
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Sometimes the first thing nature makes you say is "what the heck is that?!" In this case, we're looking at a bunch of Jacobson's Giant Scale Insects (Icerya jacobsoni).

📷 beizi125 on iNaturalist
📍 China
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
These insects (of which there are almost twenty gathered on the underside of a leaf) have oval, beige-colored central bodies with lots of white, spindly appendages growing off them. They are quite spectacular to behold.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Culebrilla ciega / Epictia subcrotilla
🏞️: Huaquillas - El Oro
📷: Santiago Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #GIBS #Reptiles #CienciaCiudadana #Biodiversidad #SomosInaturalistEc
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🕷️ Final days to help ID spiders from the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025!
Every ID helps biodiversity data become more useful for science. 🌍✨

👉 Identify Arachnids www.inaturalist.org/projects/gre...

💬 Add comments, 💖 FAVE your finds & tag #GSB2025

📸 Misumenops callinurus – @giulianna_1
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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🖌Calling all artists, we're extending our #VicBioCon26 Logo Comp! We're also switching up the prize, the winner will now be awarded $500! Enter the competition by emailing your designs to [email protected] before 11:59pm on Friday 13th February 2026!🎨
T&Cs here: www.vicbiocon.com/post/enter-t...
Infographic with a cartoon person painting on an easel. The easel is covered in green and pink paint splatters with information on the competition. Heading: "VicBioCon Logo Competition" Body text: "Enter for the chance to make the next official VicBioCon logo and win $500! Email entries to vicbiocon@gmail.com before 11:59pm Friday 13th February 2026."
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Probably the best highlight of my #GSB2025.

A very busy #Echidna spotted in #Victoria

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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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🌏 #GSB2025 update!
📸 230,067 observations
🌿 25,914 species
🔎 3,694 identifiers
👥 9,480 observers

The ID phase is on! Help turn those “Unknowns” into valuable biodiversity data.
👉 www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/post/editing...
#GreatSouthernBioBlitz #iNaturalist #CitizenScience
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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What a highlight!
Check out this guy Francesco spotted during the #gsb2025
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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🌏 Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 – Observation Phase Complete!
📸 202,906 Observations
🌿 24,236 Species
🔍 3,249 Identifiers
👥 9,170 Observers

The observation phase has ended- now it’s time to upload & identify!
#gsb2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌏 #GSB2025 Day 4 update!
183,690 observations | 23,028 species | 3,044 identifiers | 8,874 observers

The observation phase is ending & the ID phase begins! 🔍
Help make every record count for conservation follow updates 💚
👉 www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-...
We’re wrapping up an incredible weekend of biodiversity disc
We’re wrapping up an incredible weekend of biodiversity discovery across the Southern Hemisphere! 📊 Current Totals: 🔹 183,690 observations 🔹 23,028 species 🔹 3,044 identifiers 🔹 8,874 observ
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October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Silver-crowned Friarbird 'Philemon argenticeps' #BirdsSeenIn2025 on a very productive Day 3 of the #GSB2025 Darwin, Australia
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🌏✨ Great Southern BioBlitz 2025, Day 4

We’ve reached the final day and participation across the Southern Hemisphere continues to soar!
People everywhere are documenting nature in full force. 🌿📸

Overview
152,058 Obs
20,723 Spp
2,645 Id'rs
8,076 iNaters
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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🌏✨ #GSB2025 Day 3 Update!

📊 115,851 observations
🌿 17,700 species
🔍 2,187 identifiers
👣 6,768 observers

Incredible effort from across the Southern Hemisphere — and there’s still time to explore, upload & ID on iNaturalist! 💚

#GreatSouthernBioBlitz #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#GSB2025 Highlight: A stunning record of the Southern Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa ssp. famosa)

These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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🌼 Record highlight from Cork Oaks Track, Mount Beckworth, VIC 🇦🇺
Golden Cowslips (Diuris behrii) spotted by @david_boulton 💛

A delicate yellow orchid of southern Australia’s grasslands, flowering from Sept–Nov.

#GSB2025 #GreatSouthernBioBlitz #Orchids #Biodiversity
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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There are many adventures being has in #colombia during the #GSB2025 it's hard to keep up
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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💚 Registro destacado desde Santa Catalina, Envigado, Antioquia 🇨🇴
Gorgojo verde rayado (Compsus viridivittatus) observado por @juanes0812 🪲

Un escarabajo metálico y brillante, nativo de los bosques de Colombia — ¡una muestra de la increíble biodiversidad que revela el #GSB2025! 🌿
#Biodiversidad
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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As day 2 of the #GSB2025 wraps up across the Pacific — and our numbers keep climbing!

📊
56,193 obs
11,685 spp
1,451 identifiers
4,331 observers

Top species:
Aust. Magpie
Honey Bee
Rough Rock Crab
Bluefin Leatherjacket

#CitizenScience #iNaturalist www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-...
Our numbers continue to climb, biodiversity is being discove
Our numbers continue to climb, biodiversity is being discovered, photographed, and shared across the Southern Hemisphere at an incredible pace! 🌿📸 And we’re only halfway through the weekend — with
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October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The wildflower season in the Perth Hills hadn’t finished yet, still lots to see! Seen today:

🌱 Winged Stackhousia
🌿 One-sided Bottlebrush
🍃 Stylidium recurvum triggerplant
🍂 Featherflowers

For those in the Southern hemisphere, record what you see on #inaturalist for #GSB2025
#ozflora #wildoz
Tripterococcus brunonis - Winged Stackhousia - a stem with yellow tubular flowers that are star shaped in appearance Melaleuca quadrifida - One-sided Bottlebrush - shrub with feathery red flowers Stylidium recurvum - a triggerplant that grows in a rounded mound and has lots of small peachy, pink flowers all over it Verticordia acerosa - a shrub with bright yellow, fading to orange, flowers that have a feathered appearance
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The first record of #GSB2025 is in!
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
Pūriri moth (Aenetus virescens)
Pūriri moth from Mangawhai, New Zealand on October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM by Joseph Knight
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Kangaroo Island locals and visitors are invited to join the Kangaroo Island Great Southern BioBlitz to document KI's unique biodiversity from 24th to 27th October.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/gre...

potential hashtags:
#kangarooisland
#kangarooislandwildlife
#GSB2025
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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🌿 Five on Friday — It’s BioBlitz Time! 🌏
#GSB2025 starts today! 🎉

Kick off with our Five on Friday challenge — make 5 iNaturalist observations today to boost your region! 📸

Every photo counts — tag your finds with #GSB2025 🌼🦋🐦
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org

#BioBlitz #CitizenScience #Nature
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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And we’re off! The #GreatSouthernBioBlitz 2025 has begun!
Already 🌿 559 observations, 🐞 361 species, and 💡 66 identifiers from 123 participants!

Join in — head outside, snap what you see, and upload to iNaturalist 💚
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM