I photograph insects on flowers - it’s how I document pollinators and their host plants. Thanks to @andy71 , I learned about a way to officially show this relationship in iNat! The Observation Field “Nectar / Pollen delivering plant” is a great way to document the flower as well as the pollinator. …

not every observation is properly licensed, but those that are will end up in GBIF. if those observations also have certain observation fields that indicate interactions, they will also get exported to GloBI . over at GloBI you can get all that data either through their web interface or by downloadin…

[image] conorflynn: I’d like to be able to do the reverse search: find all the plant species a given taxa of pollinator was observed on You can more or less do this by appending test=interactions to the URL of the pollinator taxon ( see topic ). For example, for Bombus pascuorum, you would use…

Thank you. GloBI and the Interactions tab with GloBI data are interesting, but I would prefer to be able to search within iNaturalist. URL codes are great because they can be combined with other search features on the Observation page: I can see the total number of observations, number of species, …

[image] conorflynn: I would prefer to be able to search within iNaturalist. [image] conorflynn: So: is it just not possible to reverse Observation Field searches? It is possible to search all organisms with Observation Field = X, but not possible to return a list of all the organisms in t…

[image] conorflynn: I would prefer to be able to search within iNaturalist Please vote for this request and comment there to keep this topic on the agenda! Another way to do this is through one of the Observation Fields that does the reverse, such as “Interaction: Flower visited by”. Here ar…

I didn’t realize I could easily export and download a CSV. That makes it relatively easy to search for this Observation field, download the data, and then summarize it either by insect on plant or plant visited by insect. Thanks everyone!

[image] conorflynn: is it just not possible to reverse Observation Field searches? It is possible to search all organisms with Observation Field = X, but not possible to return a list of all the organisms in the Observation Field for a given taxa? GloBI does this automatically. My main inter…

[image] pisum: if those observations also have certain observation fields that indicate interactions, they will also get exported to GloBI . over at GloBI you can get all that data either through their web interface or by downloading their dataset. I was looking for a post about observation f…

I spoke about iNaturalist for the Torrey Botanical Society in March of 2022. Here’s where I talk about integration of iNat interaction-/association-related Observation Fields with GloBI. https://youtu.be/DZRIk81Z5s0?t=740

There is at least one other field in use that may be of interest: https://inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Nectar%20Plant

Observation Field for Flowers and Pollinators

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optilete November 20, 2022, 4:23pm 9

I was looking for a post about observation fields but probably this topic fits as well. There is no video about observation fields already, it there? Found only these https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials
https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/globalbioticinteractions/issues/822

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Observation Field for Flowers and Pollinators

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