Over the years I have collected a few butterflies and moths that I can’t seem to find anymore in my general area. I was hoping to post my current dead, pinned insects on iNat however, I don’t know what date to put them as seeing how the oldest ones are around 6 years old. How can they theoretically …

Hi Jonny - it is possible to add observations to iNaturalist and just not fill in the date. These observations will be considered Casual grade and won’t show up on range maps by default. Without a date they will be less useful for sure, but someone might find use out of them! It’s hard to know all t…

Do you know the month/the week they were collected? The more precise the data, the better of course, but even an “average” date, with the range of possible dates noted, can be helpful. Though that depends on how wide the range of possible dates actually is.

Of course it is very important to label every specimen with the exact location, date and find circumstances. The specimen is basically useless without prober labels. They should not be killed just for aesthetic reasons. (no offense, sometimes data like this get lost by mistake) However it would be …

I have a similar issue, though it’s with a paratype of Okanagana arctostaphylae that never had a collection date known. It’s a paratype for the species, so it’s hard to get much more research grade than that (well, you could with the holotype), but since there’s no date it’s defined as casual. The s…

It was a while back when all the insects were collected, and while I did have all the necessary data it was all kept in a notebook which has now been lost… I would have to agree that the date range should be added seeing how many of the insects are quite rare for the area, as I would go out with lig…

Collected insect observations without an exact date

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jwidness June 27, 2020, 11:23am 5

There’s a feature request you can vote for: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/select-a-date-range-when-creating-observations/11395

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Collected insect observations without an exact date

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