Are you Critter Curious? Join Capital Growth’s Big City Bug Hunt and become a citizen scientist!
If you’re part of a community growing group, Capital Growth and GiGL need you!
Since last summer Capital Growth, London’s largest food growing network and GiGL have developed a simple, iNaturalist-based biological recording programme to help Community Food Growers begin to spot, identify and record garden invertebrates – the Big City Bug Hunt! Using an iNaturalist framework and scaffolded with new resources, the London-wide citizen science project will help growers to observe their spaces in richer detail and create valuable biological records while doing it.
Through the project, Capital Growth are offering iNaturalist and moth trapping workshops, toolkits and plenty of resources to help growers build their buggy knowledge. Taking part builds the evidence in GiGL’s Species dataset that community gardens are important spaces for urban biodiversity across London.
Taking part is easy – just register your community growing space, join iNaturalist and start spotting and recording bugs through iNaturalist.
FIND OUT MORE (https://www.capitalgrowth.org/big-city-bug-hunt/)
For more of GiGL’s top tips for recording using iNaturalist, check out Joss Carr’s recent article on City Nature Challenge and Vicky Kleanthous’ iNaturalist overview.