Moths of genus Ogmograptis make mines in bark. What “Evidence of Presence” annotation should I use for observations of these mines, like https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223499589? The closest is “Leafmine”, which is explicitly for mines in leaves.
I would use “construction” since it is a tunnel constructed by the insect, just like an ant or termite tunnel would be
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Not everything has an appropriate annotation. Personally I’ve never added any annotations to the scribbly gum moth marks.
Understood, thanks for the replies
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/91456-new-evidence-of-presence-values-added#summary
Many of the questions about annotations are answered on the above link.
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I second this. Within that link you’d find this:
„Construction (within Animalia): Something created by an animal, made with or excavated from other materials” That’s the closet we get for stem mines
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https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/91456-new-evidence-of-presence-values-added#summary
“Construction” is meant for observations of anything an animal has constructed or excavated out of other materials, such as nests, burrows, hives, spider webs, beetle galleries, egg sacs, and the like.
So construction explicitly applies to this
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