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School cards widget.- Phylo (or if you rather use our preferred term of endearment, Phylomon), is many things. It is:
1. A card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity.
2. An exercise in crowd sourcing, open access, and open source game development.
3. Freakin' awesome!


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Rosemary Beetle
Chrysolina americana


4 POINTS
• Chrysolina americana has a MOVE of 2.
• Chrysolina americana was first discovered in the United Kingdom in 1994.
Cool, WarmImage by Claudia Hahn heliocyan.com/Ombrosoparacloucycle www.flickr.com/photos/30063276@N02/Chrysolina americana is a type of beetle native to Southern Europe, despite the species name americana. Commonly known as the ‘Rosemary Beetle’ it feeds on rosemary and lavender. This species was first discovered living outdoors in the United Kingdom in 1994. By 2002 it had become widespread in the London area, and spreading rapidly throughout. Although it is susceptible to some pesticides, [...]
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Domestic Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus


3 POINTS
• Capra aegagrus hircus has a MOVE of 2
• There are over three hundred distinct breeds of domesticated goats worldwide.
Cool, WarmImage by latyshoffa latyshoffa.deviantart.com/The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of goat.[1] Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males as bucks [...]
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Aleppo Pine
Pinus halepensis


1 POINT
• Pinus halepensis has a SPREAD of 2
• Pinus halepensis is considered an invasive species in South Africa and Southern Australia.
Cool, Warm, HotImage by Christina kurodaiya.deviantart.com/akk_rus www.flickr.com/people/akras/Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo Pine, is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. Their range extends from Morocco and Spain north to southern France, Italy and Croatia, and east to Greece and northern Tunisia, and Libya, with an outlying population (from which it was first described) in Syria, Lebanon, southern Turkey, Jordan, [...]
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Large Earth Bumblebee
Bombus terrestris


4 POINTS
• Bombus terrestris has a MOVE of 2.
• Bombus terrestris can find its nest from as far as 13 kilometres away!
Cool, WarmImage by Erin English breakbot.deviantart.com/Ferran Pestaña www.flickr.com/photos/ferranp/Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe. The queen is 2–2.7 cm long, while the workers are 1½–2 cm. The latter are characterized by their white-ended abdomens and look (apart from their yellowish bands being darker in direct comparison) just like those of the white-tailed bumblebee, B. lucorum, a close [...]
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Tennessee Warbler
Oreothlypis peregrina


5 POINTS
• Oreothlypis peregrina has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Despite its common name, Oreothlypis peregrina neither breeds nor over-winters in the state of Tennessee.
Cool, WarmImage by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/Jerry Oldenettel www.flickr.com/photos/7457894@N04The Tennessee Warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It ismigratory, wintering in southern Central America and northern Colombia and Venezuela, with a few stragglers going as far south as Ecuador. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear [...]
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Red Paper Wasp
Polistes annularis

3 POINTS
• Polistes annularis has a MOVE of 2
• Polistes annularis forms its papery nests in trees, shrubs and some buildings.Cool, WarmImage by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/Kittenwants www.flickr.com/people/kittenwants/Paper wasps are 3⁄4 to 1 inch (1.9 to 2.5 cm)-long wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material. Paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests[1] [...]
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CARD ATTRIBUTES DESCRIPTION
Top Left: COMMON NAME, LATIN NAME
Top Right: SCALE#, FOODCHAIN#, DIET (photosynthetic | molecular carbon | herbivore | omnivore | carnivore)
Middle: CLASSIFICATION (Kingdom, Phyla/Division, Class)
Middle Text: (currently blank) SPECIAL ABILITIES
Bottom Graphic: TERRAIN (desert | freshwater | forest | grassland | ocean | tundra | urban)
Bottom Left: ARTIST NAME, ARTIST URL
Bottom Right: CLIMATE (cold | cool | warm | hot)
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