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We hiked on the perserve which is the property of the Sonoma mental hopsital. As we hiked we discovered a couple of interesting creatures that I will further go into in this blog.

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But lets take a moment to appreciate this beautiful picture!

This was my 'ah ha' moment, as I realized that each habitat is the place where a plant or animal normally lives and grows. It includes four important features: food, water, cover, and space. All the ecosystems make up the biosphere, the area of life on Earth. As I reflect on invertebrates I realize how amazing they are because they are found in all ecosystems!

I will go further in explaining the different places where we found some invertebrates!

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As we started the field trip we first sampled underneath logs and branches. We found a couple of spiders, ants, and rolly pollies but the one that  What I found interesting was the scorpion! We found this scorpion underneath a log standing still, it did not move until it saw that we were trying to catch it. Its two pendipalps look so scary that it makes many not want to touch them. These creatures are intersting because of their morphological feautures.A scorpion's body is covered by an exoskeleton, which is a skeleton on the outside of the body. It's made up of chitin, a tough, flexible material composed of organic compounds. A scorpion's body is partitioned into two segments: the prosoma, or head, and the opisthosoma, which includes the abdomen and tail in subsegments. Scorpions belong to the Phylum Anthropoda.

I did not think we would able to find a scorpion becasue I was taught that they were only active during the night time. But I was amazed to learn that they can also be seen during the day where it is cool and moist. I learned that scorpions prey on insects, spiders and other invertebrates. Also, they are able to detect their prey by sensing the preys’ vibrations as they move.

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We used a canopy to sample several of trees. We hold the canopy and then shake a branch and let all that shakes off land on the canopy. Then we placed it on the floor to observe what was we found. We saw a few spiders and some little bugs. It was interesting to see all the different types of little creautres we found but just shaking one branch.

Most of all the invertebrates found during this second method and also when we used the nets we found alot of spiders! Spiders are arthropods they are found in all different environments. During our sampling there was a variety of difernet spiders not all of them were the same which made me realize the amount of diversity there is. There was alot of ants in the first sampling branch which expalins the great amount of spiders that were found in the trees. Spiders feed on ants which explains why there was a great amount of spiders in our first sampling branch. As we sampled another tree it also had a great amount of spiders due to the high amount of preys they can feed on.

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We found this lady bug near the end of our hike on the grass. It kept itself in place and tried to fly away once we tried to capture it using the jar. I never really had the chance to look at a lady bug so up close. As I took a look at it I realized how perfect their black dots were.

This is our second anthropoda that we found during our hike. The taxonomy of lady bugs is; Phylum Anthropoda, Class: Insecta (Insects) Order: Coleoptera (Beetles).  Ladybugs live in a variety of habitats, including forests, fields, grasslands, gardens, and even in people's houses. .The gardeners often use the ladybugs and their larvae to control aphids and other insects pests on their crops.

Referring to the Invertebrate Zoology Textbook by Dr Lee:
The defining features of the Phylum Arthropoda include: 1) loss of motile cilia in adult and larval stages, 2) an epidermis that secretes a jointed, segmented, sclerotized chitinous exoskeleton, and 3) musculature between joints of the appendages. As we saw in annelids, arthropods are metameric, with serial repetition of structures.

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Dr. Lee had everyone cup their ears and stay silent and after discuss what we heared. As I did the excercise I realized how much more sounds I could hear that were further away. Deers hearing is so sensitive that it can determine the exact distance at which the sound was made (Valitzski et. al, 2009). I never was aware that deers had such a great sense of hearing.

I had so much fun at the hiking trip especially being able to bond with other clssmates. It was amazing beig out on a beauful day in nature. It was a fantastic destresser, I hope to go back soon.

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Lee, S. Invertebrate Zoology Textbook, TopHat. 2018.

Valitzski, Sharon A., et al. "Deer responses to sounds from a vehicle‐mounted sound‐production system." The Journal of Wildlife Management 73.7 (2009): 1072-1076.