Annotations - happy to help

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3.0 Overview of projects requested, for annotation volunteers:

RG United States Lepidoptera - life stage annotations

RG Northern Cardinal w/o sex annotation - sex and life stage annotations (juveniles have dark beaks, adult males are mostly red.)

Lycosidae - adult females with egg sacs/spiderlings - annotate egg sacs as Life Stage Eggs. Useful observation fields: Spider Life: Spiderlings, Multiple Life Stages: Juvenile, Spider Brood Carrying

Platypezidae- sex annotation (male eyes meet in the middle, females don’t)

Odonata - especially seeking nymphs

Syrphinae - sex annotations for hoverflies

Trochodes ornatus - determine the colour (red, yellow, other) in observation field Ornate Beetle color

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will keep this one in mind

so do i ping you in my observations or do i put my observations in this post?

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You need a theme, similar to the listed examples in the previous comment. I am researching … and I need to know how many are yellow, how many are red, and why - or whatever.

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3.1 Overview of projects requested, for annotation volunteers:

RG United States Lepidoptera - life stage annotations

RG Northern Cardinal w/o sex annotation - sex and life stage annotations (juveniles have dark beaks, adult males are mostly red.)

Lycosidae - adult females with egg sacs/spiderlings - annotate egg sacs as Life Stage Eggs. Useful observation fields: Spider Life: Spiderlings, Multiple Life Stages: Juvenile, Spider Brood Carrying

Platypezidae- sex annotation (male eyes meet in the middle, females don’t)

Odonata - especially seeking nymphs

Syrphinae - sex annotations for hoverflies

Trochodes ornatus - determine the colour (red, yellow, other) in observation field Ornate Beetle color

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Annotation adjustments in other areas of the biodiversity profile may also enhance ID suggestions. For example, the “Life Stage” and “Size” of a mollusc species observation may be more ID relevant than the “Sex” of the species.

Ever thought about giving annotating a go?
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Suggestions for changes to annotations should go in this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627/ (I do not know if there is currently any development work being done on annotations, but it nonetheless makes sense for all discussion to be collected in a single thread).

Annotations are mostly about information related to life stage and phenology; “size” is not inherently connected to this and it is also not clear to me how a numerical value could be integrated into the annotation system, which is based on a fixed set of options. An observation field might be more useful for this purpose.

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I would greatly appreaciate help with life stage annotations here:
ID-Modul · iNaturalist

I can ID the adults worldwide but the larvae are usually not very nice to look at - and I can’t ID them. Plus, there are so many of them inbetween the adults…
So, in case you are already done with all the other requests, feel free to tackle this with me. 3300 left. :)

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May observations done :)

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I noticed someone being at it. You were so fast with that!

Awesome job. Many thanks! Now, I can focus on the IDs! :) The june chart did’t update yet (I think?) but it shows 0 left to annotate for me:

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You’re welcome! A nice straightforward one. With shortcuts, I can breeze through :slight_smile: Hope it helped!

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I am currently working through these and I am finding this super pleasing. Probably one of the most fun annotation projects I have been working on.
I knew I liked annotation fields but not to that extent lol.
Wish there were more requests like this one :)
Very cool idea!

Btw: I am someone who passionatly IDs patterns and I am noticing quite a few things with these beetles. If you dont mind and have some info, feel free to DM me about the variations @llotta (2x L) on iNat!

Is there a project for this or something like that? I would love to follow up on the outcome.

I am not done yet, but I took a first look at the distribution (red vs yellow):

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This is a cool project from alisonhunter901 :)

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Alisons beetles are sorted:
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The 142 reviewed observations are those not allowing annotation fields.
Another red vs yellow overview.

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Fingers crossed for more exciting ideas such as this! :)

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