Golden Niche Documenting The Invertebrates Of New York City

This week I created the group website. I made a silly mistake in the website title so I had to recreate it. So far I decided to go with a clean minimalistic theme so that the website looks appealing to people of all demographics and ages. It should be simple to use and navigate and I plan to structure it that way. I have also looked up how to embed youtube videos as I will need to do that for our documentary and other videos.

On Friday, Patrick and I visited Central Park for a few hours primarily to explore the invertebrate wildlife. It didn’t seem to be going well at first but once we lifted a piece a bark off a tree and found spider eggs, we knew there was still more to find. It then seemed like a better idea to go where there were less people setting up for the NYC Marathon. After circumnavigating part of the lake by Strawberry Fields, we decided to start digging in order to find bugs. We carried a few paper cups to catch them. The first thing we found was a sow bug, as Patrick had later found out, which looks like a pill bug. This first find seemed alone so we then moved to a different area and found that whenever we pushed aside enough leaves, we would spot a handful of bugs; either centipedes, worms, a lady bug more sow bugs etc. Patrick luckily agreed to take the creepy crawlers home, since my mom was not too happy to have those in the house.