I consistently review and identify observations in my area (primarily Montana, but sometimes dipping into other Mountain West states), so I’ve gotten familiar with commonly observed species. Usually the CV is pretty good about surfacing local organisms first in its suggestions, but lately I’ve seen …

Two of the three examples were made using the Seek app, which might be helpful to understand what is going on.

The last couple of times I’ve uploaded observations, I’ve noticed that more of them than usual just have the “visually similar” tag without “seen nearby” and the suggestions are wildly out of range. Maybe about 1 in 10 of the observations I upload has been getting suggestions like that. Usually it’s…

I notice exactly what you said, but I’ve noticed it for a longer period of time. I was thinking it went back to the last time the CV was re-trained.

I am using the site basically every day, but lately (not sure how long back, maybe few days) I noticed that there are fewer suggestions with the ‘seen nearby’ label. Here is one case that I found particularly striking - I would have expected the CV had no problem to suggest the correct species (Gry…

and here another example - location is given, but still there is not a single suggestion for ‘seen nearby’ and, also again, the correct genus is suggested twice (Vincetoxicum) - however, the very frequently reported Vincetoxicum hirundinaria is not included [grafik]

I wonder if whatever is causing these issues also led to this person picking Neopanorpa rather than Panorpa. I’ve used the CV for several scorpion flies and don’t remember it ever having suggested Neopanorpa before https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131308174

I remember that observation :grin:

I saw that it had many comments and was hoping for an interesting discussion on Panorpa identification xD

I am wondering about something that may be related and may just be coincidental but… I use a program to tag/index my photos with keywords on my computer in their RAW format and then export and upload to iNaturalist. (I use Lightroom) Well. What I noticed was that if I tag a photo in the program, f…

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bitterrootbirder August 13, 2022, 3:52pm 3

That’s definitely important context to add, thank you!

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