#IdentiFriday is the happiest day of the week

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Love the New Testament reference!

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Well, I am only up to some Fulgoroidea families (eurybrachidae, Fulgoridae, issidae, dictyopharidae, sometimes ricaniidae, and many (not all) families outside this limit). So you may just mention me in case of planthoppers, as I can id most families. But I don’t directly id unknowns, and if I do, that also rarely, when I feel that there is nothing to id.

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5 weeks ago I came back to IDing after a nine months break. I started with a backlog of > 30000 needs ID observations to review in ‘my’ taxon (Coccinellidae). Finished that today. This. Feels. Good. :-)

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That’s a lot of work!

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That’s a LOT of IDing in five weeks!

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Note that I didn’t say I IDed that many. I know only a small fraction of species in that taxon. I did look at all of them, but many only on the ID overview page for a fraction of a second to decide I have no clue. The number of actual IDs in these weeks was about 8500.

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Also, I’d suggest to put up an Unknown ID blitz project but before the City Nature Challenge event.

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That’s a good idea, but spring has actually sprung here (Wood Frogs and Red-shouldered Hawks calling! Beaked Hazelnut blooming!), so I have opted for cutting way back on my IDing and going outside instead. Plus, I’m helping to organize my local CNC and there’s a lot of work still to be done in the next five weeks.

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Try a slice from this project - before CNC would be wonderful!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pre-maverick

Choose a location or a taxon or your taxon / location combo.

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Hmm. not exactly #IdentiFriday. Maybe #IdentiMonday?

I set a goal for myself to clear all the unknowns from Oklahoma. 1700 left to do. I hope to have them finished by tomorrow.

Then, like a madman, I will go to Texas and clear the 17500 (not a typo) unknowns there!

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Madmen (and all other mad/obsessed people) are a necessary part of iNat, I think.

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So sorry to hear that.

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Doing pre-maverick butterflies today for a bit

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for #IdentiFriday, I have set a goal to clean up all of the misidentified Russula emetica (Yes, it is THAT genus) by midnight

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Still doing Hispaniola – whichever taxa I can, so unfiltered by taxon.

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Such admirable plans! I, on the other hand, went out and generated more content to identify. I’ll get back to identifying soon, though.

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I have cleared someone’s link to broad planty IDs which include Asteraceae, for my Western Cape patch. One URL deleted from my LONG list. Slowly getting past the easier conflict / disagreement (choice of 2 or 3?), and back to the harder Unknowns (could, be, any, thing???)

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Apart from my usual Coccinellidae diet I’ve started on unknowns again. Not that much different from putting everything that doesn’t look too strange into Magnoliopsida. :D Bracing myself for many, many more notifications.

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I have searched for Spiders of North America but found two different books (or sets of books) by that name. Which do you recommend?

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The one I have is by Sarah Rose. I don’t know the other one.

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