Should dying organisms be labelled as 'Alive' or 'Dead'?

[jasonhernandez74]

@deboas

In other situations, I’d be more inclined to mark a dying animal as alive, because it was alive when you found it.

@AdamWargon

what annotations would help you with your phenology studies

For giant silk moths, in which the adults have no mouths, a clearly dying adult is probably at its natural end-of-life; therefore annotating as “Dead” gives a clearer phenological picture. The same an be said for insects which do not naturally survive the winter, if observed dying at the end of the season.