One nice feature of each iNat species’ Taxon page is the chart that shows what the flowering and fruiting season is (for plants) or the season for life stage (for insects and other animal groups). These charts are built from the annotations on each observation (flowering, fruiting, etc for plants, l…

I have found that, at least when doing annotations from the Identify tab like tiwane posted, I don’t actually have to wait for the site to load and tell me it’s added the annotation for it to be registered. So I’ll hit the “flowering” annotation hotkeys and then arrow to the next observation while i…

Like @ekmes says, if I’m using the keyboard shortcuts, I’ve found that while visually I don’t see the all of the annotations appear, they’re always saved correctly.

Yes, that seems to work. Will try to adjust my workflow accordingly :-)

But yes, I agree it’s a bit frustrating to not see everything save when you want it to.

I had never really noticed annotations. Thanks for pointing this out - I’ll try to complete. For plants - phenology, how do you handle a plant that shows multiple phases at once - example budding and flowering or flowering and fruiting? Do you add a row for each item that shows in the observation…

Once you add a plant phenology annotation, you should see another blank one pop up, in case you need it.

The phenological stage is assessed for the whole plant. The presence of the most mature part is an indicator of what stage the plant has reached. For example, Solanacea will often have buds, flowers and fruits on the same plant at the same time. The plant presenting the three would be at the fruitin…

I get it that for precise studies, precise definitions of phenology are needed, but i think what iNaturalist is after with the phenology charts is something a good deal more general, like “over what months could you expect to see flowers on this plant”? After all, it’s not even taking geography int…

I created this project , which collects all European insects with life stage annotations. [grafik] Clicking on the link in the project description, the Identify module opens, displaying all insects still lacking annotations.

I think the plant phenophase identification system on INat is precise enough and works just fine (anyway the French version I interface with). But I can see why picking the right phase can be confusing at the beginning. Folks can see flower buds, flowers and fruits at once and they have to choose be…

Help iNat phenology/ life stage charting (even if not expert!)

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pmeisenheimer June 28, 2020, 8:00pm 25

Glad I read this thread before I stacked up a pile of observations. Thanks everybody.

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