I caught a bunch of juvenile earthworms, which are unidentifiable. If i let them grow up in a bin at my house and then post them as observations, would they be research or casual grade?
Casual, because they would be captive
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In general, if you capture organisms, you could photograph them at home and upload as “wild” with the time and location of capture.
However, if organisms change substantially after a certain amount of time, they would be captive - like capturing a pupa and letting it hatch out at home - the adult would be captive. That would seem to be the case here as the worms would essentially change their life stages.
You could make a wild observation for the juveniles and a captive observation for the adults and then link the two.
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Link as in add the adult photo to the observation of the juvenile?
I think he means using certain observation fields to link the 2 observations together as described in this topic.
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Yes. The pictures of adults/juveniles should be separate observations. There are observation fields that can be used to link, or text in description or comments. But showing the adult version in a separate observation can allow the juvenile observation to be IDed and RG.