Forest Organism Identification

Your Task is to identify all of the organisms you have observed.  You may use the websites below, or books or other sources.

Instructions:

1. Create a new entry (new page) where you will list your tentative identifications. 
2. Look back a select a tree or other organism.
3. Use the keys below to try to identify it.
4. In your new entry write

• Page number of original observation
• Common name (s in case of several possibilities)
• Scientific name (s in case of several possibilities)
• Source(s) of your identification from list below or other
• Why do you think that is the correct ID.
• When we go back out, what you will look for to confirm the ID.

ID  sites:

Trees at Virginia Tech

                http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/campus_trees/index.html

Wildlife at Enature:

                http://enature.com

Earthworms:

Shrubs with berries:

                http://www.ontariowildflower.com/brochure_floweringshrubs.pdf

fungus:

http://www.ontariowildflower.com/fungi.htm#top

Wildflowers:

                http://www.wildflowersofontario.ca/list1.html

                http://www.mywildflowers.com/

Insects and other “bugs”

                http://whatsthatbug.com