I’m looking for a bit of advice to see if I’m going about my gall/insect observation in a reasonable manner. I did a hike last weekend and found some interesting plant galls. Occasionally, I would collect one and maybe dissect it to see what’s inside when I returned home. I collected two and brough…

Talked about this a bit. I think there can be reasonable arguments for a few different ways of handling these, but we feel that if the galls were reared at home, then an observation of the adults should use the date and location of when they were observed in your house (or wherever they were reared)…

[image] naturebugs: @kiwifergus Would you be ok with marking the reared specimen as Wild if the observer included the date & location of the original collection (instead of the later hatched date)? I Usually I would mark them captive. By rearing them at home I have altered the environment, an…

Reared specimen with the date of gathering is a straight up lie, there wasn’t an adult there when you found it, it messes the data of life stages and overall it doesn’t sound like something anyone should do.

[image] marina_gorbunova: You can read the topic about water samples and microorganisms living there Thanks for mentioning this topics; this looks like the topic you mention? It raises some good points that are applicable to this discussion. Back to the 3 questions raised by OP, it sounds l…

Yes! It’s a pretty stable question, just not that obvious without research, using initial date/location is appropriate when you can “save” observation, so it’s when organism didn’t change drastically, if it happens it doesn’t matter much if you choose original or actual location, as it’s not only ca…

I’m going from memory, and possibly biased by my own position on this, but every literature reference I can think of where they talk about “lab reared” spider stages, they are always talked about them in terms of captivity. Especially when talking about web structures, the distinction that they are …

Um… We have two in New Zealand, one at RG so not marked captive… Do you have a place filter set? Or is one of those what you are referring to… I might be misunderstanding you… Do you mean of the thousands, only 1 is marked casual?

It doesn’t change a single thing.

It kinda does. If the distinction is less critical in the case of gall wasps, and the overwhelming practise is counter to the logical/standard approach, then trying to change that behaviour is a huge effort for little reward.

Majority of observations are done in wild, so anyway those numbers will be low, there’re some examples if you look at superfamily level, and galls are much more than one taxonomical group. I see it as a way to say one group worth not caring about rules, while others don’t, we can’t control anything,…

Seeking guidelines for hatched insect galls on plants

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For what it’s worth, there is only a single Cynipini observation in the entire world marked captive at the moment.

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Seeking guidelines for hatched insect galls on plants

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