A common mistake is marking a bee or butterfly on a rose that someone planted “captive/cultivated.” This is because while the plant is cultivated because it’s at the exact time and place a human intended it to be, the bee is not captive because the bee is at the exact time and place it intended to be, and not all users understand this (I’m not judging or saying any names, but it is kinda common for new users). Read more here. Here are things that should be marked as “captive/cultivated”:
- A pet dog
- A caged budgie
- A zinnia in your garden
- A canna lily in someone else’s garden
- A daisy that you planted
Here are things that shouldn’t be marked as “captive/cultivated”:
- A stray dog
- A budgie on a fruit tree in Australia
- A zinnia in Mexico where they naturally live
- A canna lily where they naturally live
- A weed in your garden
- Fossils (there’s a separate DQA vote for that)
For example, the image above is a Silvery Checkerspot on a Black-eyed Susan. The flower is where I intended it to be, whereas the butterfly is where it intended to be. Marking it captive is pretty much stating “hey, this is my pet.” If you see an observation marked as “wild” and is not your observation, there is a DQA (Data Quality Assessment) vote that can mark an observation as “wild” or “captive/cultivated.” For fossils please select the thumbs-down “date is accurate” (I use the website; if the DQA thing looks different on the app, please look for anything that looks like an option to disagree with the DQA vote next to it) DQA vote. Thank you for reading this topic!
