Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form across space and time

A PR plug for iNaturalist and some great coverage for entomological work from the University of British Columbia :slightly_smiling_face:!

“Thanks to backyard observers, we could access thousands of observations across North America from the comfort of our homes to begin investigating speciation on a large geographic scale.”
https://theconversation.com/crowd-sourced-science-sheds-light-on-how-new-species-form-across-space-and-time-210662

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This is amazing! I love this. And how wonderful to see that even logging photos of a species as common as the fall webworm moth can be useful to researchers.

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Love it! Thanks for sharing. Happy to have contributed one observation to the 7000+ that were used in this research.

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