Other relevant topics: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/museum-herbarium-collection-digitisation-on-inaturalist-yes-or-no/5374 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-treat-photos-of-herbarium-records/13041 I work in an herbarium and handle a lot of specimens. Often I come across leaf miners and som…

This would definitely be cool and iNat could be useful in ID help and conversations about what is found, but iNat probably isn’t the place to use as the data repository for such an observation. This really should be part of the herbarium database itself or some joint database between herbarium speci…

I mean, I agree with you. I want to upload my observations of organisms that were inadvertently collected with the plant specimens. This isn’t riffing on someone else’s work or uploading everything in a botanic garden; like I said before these are observations that can be observed secondhand and ess…

I agree that this could be an experience of nature, though it’s fair to note that staff have said such observations are ok in small quantities, but not submitted systematically. For this type of observation though, the date and time would be present day, and it would need to be ticked as “not wild”,…

I don’t understand why it would be “not wild”, though. These are wild organisms.

If you are making an observation of your interaction with the organism in the present day, the time would be now, the place would be the herbarium. In this case, that observation would fall under iNat’s definition of captive/cultivated as “Captive / cultivated means that the observation is of an org…

This is all true, but doesn’t this change if the data on iNat reflects that of the collection time?

My master’s thesis relied a lot on herbivory and insects documented on herbarium sheets! It’s open access if you’re interested: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.664763/full [ffgc-04-664763-g001] Recent studies suggest climate-related delays in the timing of leaf coloration …

Is there a specific reason that Symbiota can’t handle this? While I don’t use Symbiota myself, I know that Symbiota does allow publishing to GBIF (well-supported), and that entomology/arthropod collections use Symbiota to publish to GBIF. Symbiota is really flexible and has good collaboration tools.…

I’ve been humbled. I really don’t know what’s possible. This was a dumb question to ask.

Non-target observations in herbarium specimens - do they have a place on iNaturalist?

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alexis18 July 19, 2022, 2:08am 28

This is not always the case – some herbarium collectors intentionally documented plants with certain types of diseases or evidence of plant activity.

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Non-target observations in herbarium specimens - do they have a place on iNaturalist?

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