My eyes were much worse a few years ago- I’m making the charitable assumption that there might be something there on the dirt that I couldn’t see. The debris is usually sticks and leaves and stuff, so Life is presumably ok there.
Re “Lifing” the duplicates and such- a lot of these records might be easier to find later in that particular pile- rather than finding them spread around in Tracheophyta etc- once a proper solution is in place. So if some are doing that it doesn’t seem too bad to me at the moment. Perhaps staff can offer more guidance about our current “storage” practices? (@carrieseltzer I think you’ve seen some of mine going by you lately?)
Those just happened to be ones I was following due to comments from years ago, usually asking for clarification from the observer. I added some vascular plant ids.
Lol, I’m not wanting to read that thread because it contradicts the “happiest day of the week” mission of this one. ;)
I bet the tldr on that is basically, about the “oh, buzzkill” feeling while you’re in your identification groove or feeling good about the site in general. From many perspectives on those.
Monitoring newly casual in WY, ID, MT for missing dates, asking about potential accidental DQAs, adding “Comment if you fix…” for addressable issues. My goal is to offer potentially helpful nudges (not to be the DQA police).
Needs ID piles:
Unknowns from new users in the US
Washington State unknowns
Unknown / Pinaceae
Developing species level ID skills for:
Pinaceae of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (which lends itself to family and genus level ID skills for a much broader area - maybe global)
much appreciated. i saw a lot of notifications come through my inbox letting me know that you and a few others had done a lot of identification work in the area.
Focuing on Haiti these past few days – same island as the Dominican Republic, so a lot of the same species, but fewer observations of those shared species.
Especially getting “Genus Calisto” to species. I was fooled for a while by a species that looks sort of intermediate between the two most frequently observed, but I have that straightened out now.
If you’re looking for a quick, simple, plant ID job, Polk County, Oregon, USA suffers from Tansy confusion (Tanacetum vulgare vs. Jacobaea vulgaris) and hesitation to label plants as Leucanthemum vulgare although that’s the one abundant weedy daisy in the area.
If you want a challenge and like beetles, that county has hundreds of beetle observations, many of pinned specimens.
Ooh lordy, I took some downtime to knock things out of unknown and got jumped on because I dared ID something not below the family level.
Do mass uploaders who don’t put ids on stuff until after they’ve uploaded really think that anyone is looking at usernames or profiles when they’re looking at that level of stuff? For every user that has a ton of uploads and keeps up with it, there’s someone who uploads at unknown and then never touches their own IDs.