I think an instructor needs to do a better job.
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This shouldnt be an issue. As Im usually throwing on a high level ID as they didnt even do that much. I doubt iNat would suggest all dicots from an area are captive?
Trying to track them down. Thus far no luck but hopefully word is getting around. Wes said he was talking to forestry.
EDIT: omg today it’s worse - copyright violations instead of even the effort to take own photos.
I wrote an email and sent it around to every possibly relevant department head email I could find at Auburn with links to teacher resources, how to explain captive/cultivated, and more! Hopefully word will get around…must not bein in the forestry dept or I’d figure Wes have figured out who it is.
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Got bored made a thing xD hope it’s ok to use the bird, ribbon was a free clipart i did some color edits on
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…um, yeah? Maybe another word other than army? I’m not too into the militaristic lexicon. Battle is out for me too (used as a descriptor earlier). The badge looks nice.
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Haha fair i was just using the text suggested
Unknown Superheros maybe? Or is that too comic book?
@bobmcd hows this…no one replied but i was busy drawing spider illustrations for hopefully soon to submit paper… and took a break xD
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It’s Thursday here but it has to be Friday somewhere…
If any one has the patience for cultivated plants tonight, I’ve written a little guide to help you clean up computer vision mistakes involving Gambelia and Salvia: That’s Not My Name: Episode 1, Gambelia
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All the botanical gardens I’ve visited are like this
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Ah, maybe it is more common in other areas. The Hoyt Arboretum is the only mixed wild/cultivated one I’ve been to personally. Well I guess UC Riverside Botanic Garden has a small amount of natural vegetation in the back, but it’s pretty degraded and they didn’t put name signs on any of it. In semi-arid parts of California especially a lot of people think our native vegetation is ugly/boring and they can’t wait to replace it.
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Today I’m checking Kemerovo, you can help with spiders, insects, lots of plants and some birds. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=134620
Also, don’t forget about @rinaturalist’s proposal, some American naturalists here wouldn’t mind to get some ids, I’m sure, please, answer or maybe like this message if you feel like you want to participate.
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I must have missed that post. What was the proposal?
GETTING CLOSE !! 99 pages left for Alabama
I have done over 10,000 pages
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That’s amazing! Far less daunting than Alabama, I’m almost done with Montana. Someone must have taken care of it last year (and pruned it in the summer), because there were none that were very old. Next up: Idaho.
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We have some super-users that I don’t see do too much ID work outside their own; and we have lot of univerities and high schools that seem to us iNat (poorly), so there gets to be a large backlog; lots that I doubt will ever be ID-able. There’s a few really active folk though who ID. It’s a very biodiverse state!
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Thank you for everyone who helped this week! Number of needs ids for the region dropped for around 600 observations, but there were much more updates made (19 observers are not presented anymore). I hope more experts will look there later in the winter, a lot of insects to id and even more to mark “as good as can be” by those with enough knowledge.
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I think here people recently were discussing about why to keep IDing with the amount of new obvs and the already big backlog in some groups (and unknowns).
Here is a good reading about that https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843
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https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/paper-about-inaturalist-the-benefits-of-contributing-to-the-citizen-science-platform-inaturalist-as-an-identifier/37191
For interested in discussion.
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Anyone with a passion for plants, there are 554 unknowns in Armenia that need some attention. Most are plants that could easily be moved beyond dicot or monocot by those more knowledgeable than I. I feel bad because this small country had been left out of the Low Growth Countries and Territories project - which I am now auditing and updating to reflect 2022’s stats.
There were a few multi species obs that I added a Google-translated to Armenian comment from the https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#multiple.
Those unknowns are here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=unknown&order=asc&place_id=8433&project_id=low-growth-countries-and-territories&quality_grade=needs_id
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You’re right, I was able to move a lot of them, at least on the first page. I didn’t do any “Dicots,” but there were a lot that were easy to take to family.
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