Actually with the keyboard shortcuts offered here (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/annotation-sunday/55342/5), it is quite fast for this group. And with butterflies and moths, it is easy to differentiate between adult and caterpillar (I’m mostly skipping the few difficult records with leafmines and galls) - easier than plugging through unknowns with only a very shallow taxonomic knowledge.
My thinking is also since the butterfly and caterpillar (and pupa) are quite different in their appearance (and there might be even species than can only be IDed in their larvae/adult form or vice versa), perhaps a future computer vision model will be supported by those annotation if there is enough data (“CV says this is a … caterpillar”). So it doesn’t feel like achieving nothing.
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