I enjoy adding annotations and observation fields to observations, so if you have a particular focus that I can help with, please let me know! I am good with birds, plants, and mammals. I understand basic insect behaviour/organisms and can recognise age groups. I’m most familiar with Europe and Sou…

Hello! I have a question. On the graph, if the colours are pastel, does that mean that’s the number without annotations? And the darker sections are the annnotations done? Because if I search for Spain, it says there are no matching observations i.e. every single hoverfly in Spain has been annotated…

Sorry, I should have added an explanation, because these graphs are typical of the regular graphs used in the project, but not self-explanatory to the unfamiliar. The pastel colour is the state of play at the start of the event, the darker colours are what we have added during the event. So for Sp…

Oh that’s great, thank you for taking the time to explain!

@calvertm has been putting a lot of effort into annotating Lepidoptera, which I’m sure you can imagine is a valiant, but never-ending effort. This is the link filtering Lepidoptera observations needing a life stage annotation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%…

I annotate caterpillars as I ID Unknowns - keyboard shortcuts in Identify Modal L (for Life Stage) + L (for Larva) is quick and easy.

I’ve also been doing a lot with lepidoptera! :blush: Glad I’m not alone! I use the metadata tool to quickly annotate obvious adults.

Thanks to anyone who helped with this. The Syrphing Europe project accounts for 45% of the world’s hoverfly observations, and we ended the weekend with 100% life stage annotation (up from 92%) and just shy of 70% sex annotation (up from 65%). In total we added just over 76 000 annotations. Great …

I really enjoyed being part of a group - I started to recognise the avatars of other annotators :laughing:

Here’s some fun annotation math to put things in perspective. Right now I’m tackling life stage and evidence of presence on all Research Grade genus Vanessa observations. On iNaturalist there are currently 5,147 pages missing life stage on the Research Grade observations for the genus Vanessa. Each…

64 days is a good target - I can aim at that - but - oh, so much better, if a few people join you for an easy task.

Annotations - happy to help

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I’ve also been doing a lot with lepidoptera! Glad I’m not alone! I use the metadata tool to quickly annotate obvious adults.

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Annotations - happy to help

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