We're passionate about getting kids involved in science and conservation in really accessible ways. In 2020, the Citizen Scientists Initiative, or CSI, recruited kids to take another, closer look at the things living in their backyards, photograph what they found, and upload it to the iNaturalist platform for Museum scientists to identify.
Kids uncovered a range of strange and wonderful wildlife, from a type of fungi known as the 'Potato Earthball' to the green lacewing, an insect our Curator of Entomology discovered last year. Another investigator discovered the first known record of the Myrianida pachycera, or Marine polychaete worm!