In this observation , an out-or-range occurrence is explicitly due to human transport of a larval food plant, nicely documented in the comments with the observation. I used the DQA “Captive/cultivated” to mark this occurrence as human-aided. Is this the appropriate notation? IMHO, a simple annotat…

Thanks @natev for that link. I’m on a fence in this particular complicated observation. Here is my thinking on this sequence of actual/potential events: Had the larva been documented at its original location in Texas, it would clearly be wild. IF the larva had been transported intentionally to P…

I think this will be resolved when/if the establishment annotations for reptiles and a few other taxa are adopted more broadly. The organism is not established in that location, but it most certainly doesn’t qualify for iNaturalist’s definitions of captive or cultivated. Any researcher who blindly …

I agree with that, but it’s possible to reduce the room for error on both sides of the research: the input side and the utilization side. I, for one, vet the data carefully when performing species distribution modeling, and a tropical plant growing in Pennsylvania is easy to catch. However, it becom…

Oh, yes, absolutely, and I’ve marked tens of thousands of cultivated observations as cultivated for that reason. My point is that we shouldn’t mark non-captive observations as captive/cultivated simply because they occur outside of the natural range (which I think you agree with).

I’ve wondered the same for observations of insects picked out of automobile grilles, which often show up far out of range for the species, and for insects transported in root balls of ornamental trees and shrubs. It seems logical to me in both cases to tick the Captive/Cultivated box…in each case, t…

Clearly wild, it did not end up at this location by human intention.

This has been discussed before, and iNaturalist’s position is that these are not captive/cultivated. The only things that are captive/cultivated are organisms that humans intended it to be there. What does captive / cultivated mean? : iNaturalist Help The terms “captive” and “cultivated” are iNatur…

I guess this is a very gray one with multiple ways to look at it. The way I see it and the way I would do this type of observation: Pictures and observations of the caterpillar at the time/location it was found on the lichen - marked WILD with notes indicating the recent shipment and other pertin…

I agree with this reasoning (I think! It’s a lot). But in general, hitchhikers brought unintentionally would be wild. In general, if any organism changes a life stage while/after being in human care/captivity, the “new” life stage of the organism will be captive and not wild.

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susanne-kasimir September 27, 2024, 3:49pm 9

But that’s one of the ways invasive species arrive. For example I am thinking of the box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis and the palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus.

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