In my experience BugGuide is more effective for identifying obscure insects than iNaturalist, at least for the insect groups I look at. As far as I can tell, that’s simply because they have experts for each group who is able to identify those groups, whereas iNat does not have those experts. I’m not sure though whether they are missing because something about about iNat repels them (which this proposal could potentially address) or just because nobody has asked them to join. Over time we do have more experts here. I agree that BugGuide is less user-friendly for the observer though.
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