Platform: W11
Browser, if a website issue: Chrome
Description of problem:
Some species are difficult and not identifiable beyond genus from photos. If the record is RG at species level, my setting it to genus is just taken as supporting the id when I’m trying to say that it’s not supported by the evidence available.
If the record is not RG then I can set it to genus level and set “not possible to identify further from current evidence” (I forget the exact wording, but that doesn’t show on the Identify page and dunno what it does anyway.) so there’s nothing to stop a naive beginner matching it to a photo and giving it a name.
I’m working on UK Ichneumonidae. Most photos on the web are wrong. There are only a handful of spp in books. Most records in iNat are wrong. The only hope a beginner has is using ObsIdentfy or https://waarneming.nl/ but it’s a lot of work.
Ichneumon haemorrhoicus crassigena - dunno where that’s come from. “crassigena” is not mentioned in the checklist or the latest mongraph on the genus. Ichneumon haemorrhoicus is a British species but it’s pretty rare.
Be useful to have a button that just says “no it isn’t!”
Some photos are not identifiable at all: be useful to have a button to say “you wouldn’t recognise your own mother in that photo” - but perhaps phrase it more politely!
Yes, I’m thinking of changing my user name to curmudgeon!