Today when I was trying to ID a hopper nymph, one of the species representative icons was a GIF (Vanduzea arquata). GIFs are fun for observations, but as representative icons, not so much. I am not able to focus on a moving image and had to drill down until I found a still image to use for identific…

GIFs as representative icon for species

wildmaven September 2, 2022, 10:09pm 3

Arghghggh, moving images annoy the heck out of me. If iNat starts becoming nature tiktok, I’ll be out.

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