Large Carpenter Bee
order: Hymenoptera
family: Apidae
genus: Xylocopa
species: virginica

• Are names and classification sooooo interesting?
• But names can be tricky things
• Lumpers and splitters
• On the beauty of scientific names
• How many kinds of plants and animals are there?
• Is that plant or animal rare?
• Pigeon-holing our discoveries
• Evolutionary "trees"
• New ideas about the Tree of Life
• Identifying Plants & Animals
  • Using the Internet
  • Using Field Guides
  • Using Identification Keys

How plants are related to one another

• Groupings of FLOWERING plants

How animals are related to one another