New Arrival

Human travel and commerce have completely rewritten the book on wildlife distribution. Deliberately or by accident, humans have transported many thousands of species from their native ranges to [...]

With 4 million contributors, more than 67 million records, and a third of a million species documented, iNaturalist might seem like a complete archive of biodiversity. But with an estimated 1.3 [...]

An interesting species was added to the BWorks Martha’s Vineyard Atlas of Life project on iNaturalist last weekend: Vespula vidua, sometimes known as the widow yellowjacket. A queen or [...]

Flies — the order Diptera — tend to be either ignored or reviled by humans. But this diverse group of insects, with about 17,000 known species in North America, is of enormous [...]

We started out small, but we were energized by a powerful vision: an organization dedicated to wildlife monitoring, biological research, and public education on the unique island of [...]

An alert observer and the power of iNaturalist (iNaturalist.org) recently combined to add a regionally important insect record on Martha’s Vineyard! iNaturalist observer abgeorge found the [...]

With mild weather finally forecast for this week, odds are good that the year’s earliest butterflies will be on the wing. Invariably, the mourning cloak is the first butterfly species [...]

It’s that smelly time of year when amorous male skunks roam the island in search of mating opportunities and some have close encounters of the vehicle kind. For much of the winter our striped [...]

The winter ant, Prenolepis imparis, appears to be a fairly common and widespread species on Martha’s Vineyard. But it’s unusual in that it is active mostly during cold weather. [...]

While COVID-19 did not impact our other wildlife work this spring and summer, it did halt most of our bat research.  We were not able to handle any bats for fear of transmitting COVID-19 to them [...]