As inspiration on IdentityFriday: Wouldn’t it be nice to have an AnnotationSunday? In iNaturalist, an annotation is a specific type of metadata that users can add to an observation to provide additional details beyond the basic information like species, location, and date. For example, life stage,…

[image] rudolphous: Try to add your average number of annotations + 25. Do you mean the average daily number?

Yes, correct also updated the text. Thank you

It is easy to add sex annotations to hoverflies in the subfamily Syrphinae! Eyes together = male, eyes separated = female. Here is an article I wrote about it for a UK project , but the same applies everywhere. Other subfamilies have some exceptions where males have separated eyes, but in Syrphina…

Why not share what you’ve accomplished today? Best of luck with Annotation Sunday #2!

Yesterday I could do during Annotation Sunday #2: adding lifestage, evidence of presence to all lepidoptera of iceland adding lifestage, evidence of presence to some area’s of NL (Zeeland, Texel, Schiermonnikoog, Amsterdam) adding lifestage, evidence of presence to some lepidoptera of Africa addin…

Same in Platypezinae (flat footed flies), I believe, where the males usually also are completely black. But I‘m not familiar with every species there so I‘m not able to say whether there are any exceptions.

Two more Sundays for Great Southern Bioblitz, then I can retrieve my Need Annotation links.

Good luck with Annotation Sunday #4.

I know it isn’t Sunday, but I wanted to share anyways. I finally finished annotating life stage and sex for Platypezinae. :D It’s a subfamily with relatively few observations, and my next project is annotating the whole family Platypezidae (which should be about 2000 annotations, so not too much wo…

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rudolphous September 29, 2024, 5:19am 43

Good luck with Annotation Sunday #3.
I will add life stage to: link - 342 pages currently

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