500 species in 24 hours!

Skansen and other green spaces in the city are important havens for urban biodiversity. During the survey, species experts and members of the public recorded almost 500 wild species in the park. They included mammals such as bats, as well as many bird species, fascinating fungi, unusual mosses, insects and amphibians.

How many species can you name?

Here are 64 of the species recorded. You can also see them in the exhibition in Skansen’s escalator hall. How many can you name? The names are listed below the image.

64 of the nearly 500 species recorded during Skansen’s bioblitz.

From left to right:

Row 1: Common duckweed, orange-tip butterfly, striped millipede, bilberry, blue tit, common hepatica, common chaffinch, broad-leaved cattail

Row 2: Chicory, soprano pipistrelle, red squirrel, cinquefoil, tinder fungus, rose chafer, European greenfinch, European green woodpecker

Row 3: Raspberry, grey-cushioned grimmia, coltsfoot, western jackdaw, chamomile, split-gill fungus, cellar spider, barn swallow

Row 4: Soft brome, lady fern, germander speedwell, woodlouse, dark earth bumblebee, northern bat, nettle-leaved bellflower, Eurasian nuthatch

Row 5: Grove snail, brassica bug, black-and-red bug, European robin, red clover, signal crayfish, silver moss, stork’s-bill

Row 6: Woodland forget-me-not, black-headed gull, blackthorn, snowberry, hawfinch, hedge woundwort, great spotted woodpecker, pied flycatcher

Row 7: Toothwort, 22-spot ladybird, common swift, annual meadow-grass, knotgrass, black garden ant, garden warbler, German wasp

Row 8: Daubenton’s bat, Roman snail, winter damselfly, winter aconite, violet-toothed polypore, wall lichen, creeping thistle, lady’s mantle

Photos från Wikimedia Commons (WC) and Skansen: WC 242011 Rosenzweig – WC 3938284, Mick E. Talbot – WC 26825490, O forsberg WC 30353296, Francis C. Franklin WC 37675470, WC 98762, Francesco Veronesi WC 46896869, WC 325602, Alvesgaspar -WC 2141487, Evgeniy Yakhontov WC 14637689, Skansen, AnRo0002 -WC 40128709, IG-WC 5887086, I, Chrumps, WC 2521547, Francesco Veronesi WC 46896871, hedera.baltica WC 67521303, Vassil WC 2698999, Michael Becker WC 243226, Andreas TrepteWC 3800718, Bengt Nyman WC 49064214, Fir0002 20D -WC 168960, Doug Bowman WC 341188, oio154 – WC 1361114, Dion Art WC 133079767, Rasbak – WC 155820, WC 776822, WC 143590, Fritz Geller-Grimm WC 1500908, Ivar Leidus – WC 49951040, Magne Flåten – WC 9085260, WC 219216, Paethon – WC 3257150, Cepaea_nemoralis WC 18750276, Martin Andersson – WC 21312882, entomartIn WC 842568, Dion Art – WC 131965432, Ivar Leidus – WC 50438310, MdE – WC 1082313, Michael Becker – WC 238934, Ivar Leidus – WC 106123356, André Karwath WC 223225, Hobbyfotowiki -WC 85144231, WC 337699, I ArtMechanic WC 202438, Marek Szczepanek -WC 55847, Ivar Leidus – WC 26893216, Salvatore De Castro – WC 69829542, Hans Ollonen – WC 112316706, PiPi – WC 1971787, Olei D WC 929018, pau.artigas – WC 10187946, Petr FilippovWC 7487250, Dalgial WC 7036011, Gary Alpert WC 3387868, Biillyboy – WC 11427509, Soebe – WC 121738, me – WC 3271903, Hans Hillewaert WC 4078389, Minutemen – WC 1153557, Martin Olsson WC 1756702, Jerzy Opioła -WC 25342519, WC 682697, Ivar Leidus – WC 27184932, Endre Nygaard – WC 76240063.