WBA has a Project on iNaturalist for those who don’t want to do an actual survey. As of publication time, we have 6 project members, and 52 species posted. Three quarters of our observations are Research Grade, which means they are included in the iNaturalist Research-Grade Observations dataset. Anyone on iNat can download this data as a .cvs file, and iNat data is used by researchers worldwide. Anyone on iNaturalist can join the Project, and anyone on iNaturalist can help to verify identifications posted to the Project. One of my hopes for this Project is that we can get help with our identifications. I have posted photos of caterpillars and of moths, hoping that someone will know what they are. There are other moth observations in the Project, as well as butterflies, also waiting for a verification. Browsing through the Project page also lets us get an idea of who’s seeing what, where and when.

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