Hello thanks INat. I want to deal with the community on the particular use that I have been making for a while on the web platform. I am an agricultural technician. I advise on various small farms in my region in northern Italy, the Emilia-Romagna region. When I’m in the fields I always have my …

It is a great project and I wish we had something similar in my region. Have you looked into folscopes as decent field microscope?

But what’s the main problem about taking photos? Identifying chalcids is a process that needs magnificaction, what do you use for it?

Thanks. I am glad that the idea of using INaturalist in agroecology and making farm projects interests! I will try to convince Adriano to take photos under the microscope during identification. It’s a matter of time and habits: time: for now it has been a free job for passion, now it is also gett…

Maybe it would convince him to let him know he’s providing data which can be used by his fellow scientists :) In any case, it is possible to use a phone camera to photograph what’s under the microscope. You’ve got to line up the lenses just right, but you can get fine photos like (most of) these.

Entomologist do often not share their data with us, simple people, but nowadays this habit should be gone, in omputer era everyone should do their best in sharing data, and photos are one of the simplest way. I don’t have a proper microscope for insects, but even with mine it’s possible to photogr…

thanks @melodie_96 However Adriano, like most entomologists, are simple people (intended as people without important roles in institutions). They simply studied some insect families for passion for decades, and they did it with a very important scientific rigor. Ah, his book: http://www.albarnard…

The problem with a lot of scientists and the sharing of information is the trend of the drying up of fund for public research. Even in public research institutions, often time to get any funding, you chase partnerships with the private sector. They are not sharing people. It happened slowly but sure…

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astra_the_dragon May 13, 2020, 3:41pm 2

Those all sounds like fantastic uses of iNaturalist! Thank you for sharing your story, and welcome to the forum. :)

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