So far in our journey through the Coastal Temperate Rainforest we have focused on plants. In today's episode we want to talk about some of our urban ecosystem's most overlooked species, the ground beetles! Discover how ground beetles can be used as indicator species and how you can help us with this year's research project!
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Urban forests in Coquitlam, BC
02:25 Ground beetles
03:42 How to create a pitfall trap
06:08 Our sample sites
06:53 Introduced vs native beetle species
08:18 Ground beetles as indicator species
09:30 Introducing, Nebria!
12:43 Join our beetle watch program!
