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…

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.

TBH I prefer to ID, and rarely do an annotation sweep. But I do caterpillar as I go.

[image] anneclewis: Well… since you offered… Odonata. I’m looking for nymphs. Start here. Just did a bunch of nymphs and exuvia. (And threw in peppering of IDs for post-emergent individuals, because hey; it was still Friday when I started.) I’ll get back to them once I’ve had some sleep. …

Do you use the metadata tool? Still about a minute for 30 annotations, but you can add more than one at a time. For this reason, I really like to work on achievable projects. For example, I finished all the Spanish festoon butterflies last month. I take a screenshot of the chart at the start to mot…

@nyenyedzi I don’t know what the metadata tool is, but I use the keyboard shortcuts to add annotations.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/announcing-the-universal-metadata-tool-beta/53182?u=nyenyedzi It works well alongside keyboard shortcuts, which I use as well.

Ctenophora thorax I think Ctenophora apicata and dorsalis also have variable coloration. Males have large feathery antennae, while females have simple ones – sex can be added too Male: [image] Female: [image] https://ccw.naturalis.nl/documents/Byers,_2002.pdf

Annotations - happy to help

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kblackburn March 15, 2026, 5:38pm 78

Thanks this looks super helpful!

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