Kia ora koutou,
The myrtle rust dot org website directs people here but once here there’s no info about what to do next. Main message ‘myrtle rust is major biosecurity threat’. Ok got that. Now what? Have joined and navigated the worst (possibly taxonomically correct but not user friendly) website.
Rant over. Is this myrtle rust? And if it is, what do I about it? And if I did touch it, what should I do?
And I would post more images but have discovered that new users can only post one image. Utterly frustrating experience…
I think the myrtle rust website has set up their hyperlink incorrectly, because this is the iNaturalist forum (i.e. where people can discuss iNaturalist, its features, nature in general) as opposed to iNaturalist itself! If you head to https://www.inaturalist.org, you can create an account for yourself, and upload your myrtle rust there to get the ID confirmed/corrected. You’ll also be able to post as many photos of as many things as you like, and you’ll find the interface a lot more user friendly :)
Feel free to ask any more questions if you’re unsure
It’s not the best way to discover a website, but as I live in a place full of kereru, tui, ruru, skinks and goodness knows what else, may have to take a longer look…
But keep clicking on the link and finding myself in an infinite feedback look which redirects here… maddening!
Yes, it seems on the Report It page that goes to inaturalist.com (interestingly not to inaturalist.nz but international nodes don’t work well together anyway).
So it seems you should submit the record on iNat. You should probably ID it as myrtle rust yourself so the NZ mycologists are more likely to see it and that’s all you need to do.
You might also like to see what the myrtle-rust-reporter project has to add (just search for that on iNat).
To post your observation for ID on iNaturalist, you first need to create an iNaturalist account using https://www.inaturalist.org/signup
Or, if you prefer to use the phone app instead of the web site, download and install the app for Android or iPhone, and either sign up through the app, or sign in via the app if you already created an iNaturalist account. Or you can use all of the above.
Note that the account that you created when you joined this Forum is completely separate, and is not linked to your iNaturalist account. (Although the Forum does prefer that you use the same user name in both places if possible. And you can set up your Forum account to sign in to the Forum using your iNaturalist credentials, if you like.)
You can be logged in to the different iNat domains simultaneously - I’m occasionally logged in to the Australian AND Global one without a problem (usually after following links).
