Howdy, tried reading some of the discussions on captive/cultivated vs wild but didn’t find a clear guideline how to handle cases like these: Example 1 : I find a larva (say of a beetle) in the wild and take it home to determine what species it is by rearing it to imago. I document the larva as fo…

To summarize: The question (more or less) was how to handle multiple stages of a development documentation and what to do with the “Captive” tag. The answer is: Enter each new stage or photo session as a separate observation Link the individual observations by means of the Observation field “Simi…

Now it’s getting a bit mixed up in conversation. I see you have also added the Oenopia larva to the set of curated images. For the sake of argument I have removed the Acrosternum images from the “curated” set again. What any visitor sees in the standard situation is this: [Acrosternum_rubescens_…

Hi kiwifergus, was working on the other answer/upload while you were writing. Thanks for the input. Yes, I understand that it is a default choice, but I’m glad to hear that I’m not totally mistaken that it is a default choice not to display these images in any accessible way, just due to the fact…

They’re shown in observations and that is where most of people look (I don’t know, at least me). I have no idea why they’re not shown in photo gallery with “any” filter. Don’t see the point of removing photos, I added them not to please you, but because they suited the species photos collection. Aga…

[image] pudding4brains: But if I just enter my observations and don’t go stampeding about and bumping my photos to the spotlight via the “Curate” option, the system full well chooses to not ever show them to anyone looking at the species pages in any normal way. it’s not iNats mission to proa…

[image] pudding4brains: With the way the system is set up as it seems, it becomes very tempting to just go “sod it” and not tag these as captive. Too much trouble and “pushing your own work” involved to getting them appreciated otherwise. many do, and I have resorted to that a little myself. …

[image] kiwifergus: And if you feel what the system applies is not right, raise it in discussion, and you may even change others’ viewpoints too! but I should add, the marginalisation fo captive/cultivated is a pretty established thing, and not something that is likely to change. Many of us h…

it’s not iNats mission to proactively show images of eggs to visitors Of course, that’s not what I’m talking about. The point is, that it is proactively hiding these. And no, it is not easy to find the “captive” observations. You would kind of have to know beforehand that there would or could be …

[image] marina_gorbunova: Don’t see the point of removing photos That was just to show what the situation looks like if you don’t manually push your own images into the curated set. I’ve moved them back in now ;o)

It’s “hiding” any captive observations, it’s not the guidelines’ fault that those weren’t photographed in the wild, though for me if that matters so much you could get your first photos of eggs with female laying eggs as wild (I guess it started laying eggs quickly after arrival or?), with no time o…

[image] pudding4brains: Of course I cannot go and find these eggs in the wild on any given day just to please procedures at iNat. I consider myself very lucky that I got by a batch of eggs of this rare species “accidentally” the way I did and I’m trying to let other people enjoy a bit of that “l…

Captive/cultivated or wild on rearing larvae etc

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Captive/cultivated or wild on rearing larvae etc

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