
Not a CIDU; just a map I found fascinating.
iNaturalist is a social network of biologists and fellow travellers. On their app, you can report sightings. I’m using their Seek app, which is an amateur plant identification app but isn’t tied into this database. (It will identify birds and insects if you can get them to stand still and pose well enough.)
The map varies between the banal (bumblebees and milkweed for Illinois) to the inappropriate (the invasive garlic mustard in PA) to the more seriously invasive (spotted lanternflies in NJ).
Unlike my Nextdoor feed, which tends to breathlessly report each siting of a coyote as if we should barricade ourselves inside, coyote is not mentioned on this map.
More info explaining this comic is here.
I know some of my neighbors (this is Illinois) do get excited about milkweed, and have email chains about sharing and redistribution purchased plants (or seeds?) — apparently driven by fondness for the Monarch flutterbyes that like the milkweed.
I saw a coyote walking down the alley a few years ago. I thought it was a dog, called to him and clicked my tongue. He turned his face away and walked a little faster. Then I realized. I followed him for a hundred feet or so, and he turned into a yard, going under the gate.
I was seriouly in awe.
Amur (shrub) honeysuckle in MO. That’s considered invasive and frequently there are attempts to eradicate it from public areas like parks. I will confess that there are some growing at the suburban house, although I did not plant it.
Chak – so the coyote was afraid of you?