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List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 06:42:46 +0000 From: \Abdulali, Salman\ (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Re: Butterflies of North Carolina project just created on iNaturalist
--_000_3014F62B60CF4E91B6B5C2C26A616C70ecuedu_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-printable Currenlty 3297 of the 48,139 observations are in the =E2=80=9Cneeds id=E2= =80=9D category. Please consider contributiing an id when you come across o= ne of these. Anyone who is logged into iNaturalist can do so. Here is a dir= ect link to the observations that need an id. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_= id=3Dany&project_id=3Dbutterflies-of-north-carolina&quality_grade=3Dneeds_i= d&verifiable=3Dany__;!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5= nb9jKIotyKatdL2fBo33Y0$=20 This includes 7 of my observations, which can be found at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_= id=3Dany&project_id=3Dbutterflies-of-north-carolina&quality_grade=3Dneeds_i= d&user_id=3Dsalmanabdulali&verifiable=3Dany__;!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX= 2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5nb9jKIotyKatdL2flxdK20$=20 Some of the observations may be unidentifiable due to blurry photos, poor a= ngles, etc. If you are certain that the id cannot be improved then the obse= rvation can be removed from the =E2=80=9Cneeds id=E2=80=9D category by answ= eriing =E2=80=9CNO=E2=80=9D to the question "Based on the evidence, can the= Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved?=E2=80=9D which appears at = the end of the =E2=80=9CData Quality Assessment=E2=80=9D section of the pag= e. Salman Abdulali Greenville, NC From: Harry LeGrand <carolinaleps...><mailto:<carolinaleps...>> Date: May 14, 2022 at 5:48:01 AM GMT+5:30 To: carolinaleps <carolinaleps...><mailto:<carolinaleps...>>, Har= ry LeGrand <hlegrandjr...><mailto:<hlegrandjr...>> Subject: Butterflies of North Carolina project just created on iNaturalist Reply-To: Harry LeGrand <hlegrandjr...><mailto:<hlegrandjr...>> =EF=BB=BF Folks, Something I or someone else should have done a number of years ago was to c= reate a project on iNaturalist that would automatically pull all photos upl= oaded onto the site with the following two criteria: butterfly and North Ca= rolina -- into a single project. Based on my experience recently with revi= ewing rare plant photos for NC in that project, I decided today to create a= new project: Butterflies of North Carolina. Here is the home page: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterflie= s-of-north-carolina__;!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx= 5nb9jKIotyKatdL2jys3QD0$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam02.safelin= ks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps3A2F2Furldefense.com2Fv32F__http= s3A2F2Fwww.inaturalist.org2Fprojects2Fbutterflies-of-north-carolina__= 3B!!OToaGQ!6V-o9F2U3iUsZXBh3DqbdQerAk_Sbbi97oJHfOgzkpCDHlLbX_9Guj-XJZ-K3qYL= LDg24&data=3D057C017Cabdulalis40ecu.edu7C708483b8ae204ca2fd7f08da35732= 08d7C17143cbb385c4c45a36ac65b72e3eae87C07C07C6378810658392158827CUnkno= wn7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVC= I6Mn03D7C30007C7C7C&sdata=3DcDnJLcEJmUqsfSr9lyv2G2FlmxhX9ssaa5UnhZPN= 2Bu3A3D&reserved=3D0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!OToaGQ!8m= SoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5nb9jKIotyKatdL29pb8m0A$ > As you can tell from that page, all of the previou records submitted that a= re butterflies and in NC are here -- 48,000+. This does not mean all are c= orrectly identified. But, at least it allows you to peruse the entries, st= arting with the most recent, to see what is being submitted. Of course, th= e common and conspicuous ones dominate! And, you can see that Rob Van Epps= is narrowly ahead of Salman Abdulali in # of species submitted. Lori Owen= by has submitted the most butterfly photos. Some to many of you already upload photos here -- butterflies, wildflowers,= whatever plant or animal you feel worth uploading. I do not want folks to= stop submitting your butterfly trip lists to carolinaleps! Rather, if you= DO have a photo or two worth posting on iNaturalist -- particularly a less= common species as opposed to another E. Tiger Swallowtail -- I encourage p= osting to iNaturalist. You DO have to Sign Up/Join to post photos. You do= NOT have to join simply to look at the photos of others. To get to the Butterflies of North Carolina project, from the original Home= Page, go to Community at the top, click Projects from the dropdown, and th= en in the Search box enter -- Butterflies of North Carolina. If you just = enter North Carolina you won't see it, as there are dozens of projects in N= C; and entering Butterflies won't catch it either, as there are dozens of b= utterfly projects. Enjoy looking at the records. Very few of them have probably been entered = into the big database of the Butterflies of North Carolina website, though = I generally do glean important records at the end of the year. And, Salman= , who uses the "subscription" function, gets all records daily in an e-mail= ; so he has been tipping me off for a few years of really notable ones. Harry LeGrand PS -- On the project page, or the home page, of course you CAN simply enter= a species name and North Carolina in the 2 fields (species and location), = to see all photos of a given species in North Carolina. For example, there= are 7 photos uploaded for Berry's Skipper in NC, all considered as accepte= d =3D Research Grade. --_000_3014F62B60CF4E91B6B5C2C26A616C70ecuedu_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: <F966C09799D9D248A657ECE3D386A540...> Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"> </head> <body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break:= after-white-space;" class=3D""> <div>Currenlty 3297 of the 48,139 observations are in the =E2=80=9Cneeds id= =E2=80=9D category. Please consider contributiing an id when you come acros= s one of these. Anyone who is logged into iNaturalist can do so. Here is a = direct link to the observations that need an id.</div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div><a href=3D"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.org/obs= ervations?place_id=3Dany&project_id=3Dbutterflies-of-north-carolina&amp= ;quality_grade=3Dneeds_id&verifiable=3Dany__;!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV3= 2qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5nb9jKIotyKatdL2fBo33Y0$" class=3D"">https://www= .inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=3Dany&project_id=3Dbutterflies-o= f-north-carolina&quality_grade=3Dneeds_id&verifiable=3Dany</a></div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div>This includes 7 of my observations, which can be found at</div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div><a href=3D"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.org/obs= ervations?place_id=3Dany&project_id=3Dbutterflies-of-north-carolina&amp= ;quality_grade=3Dneeds_id&user_id=3Dsalmanabdulali&verifiable=3Dany= __;!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5nb9jKIotyKatdL2flx= dK20$" class=3D"">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=3Dany&a= mp;project_id=3Dbutterflies-of-north-carolina&quality_grade=3Dneeds_id&= amp;user_id=3Dsalmanabdulali&verifiable=3Dany</a></div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div>Some of the observations may be unidentifiable due to blurry photos, p= oor angles, etc. If you are certain that the id cannot be improved then the= observation can be removed from the =E2=80=9Cneeds id=E2=80=9D category by= answeriing =E2=80=9CNO=E2=80=9D to the question "Based on the evidenc= e, can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved?=E2=80=9D which app= ears at the end of the =E2=80=9CData Quality Assessment=E2=80=9D section of= the page.</div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div>Salman Abdulali</div> <div>Greenville, NC</div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div><br class=3D""> </div> <div><br class=3D""> <blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""> <div class=3D""> <div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size:= 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform= : none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: = 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=3D""> <div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D""><b class=3D"">From:</b><span class=3D"Apple-con= verted-space"> </span>Harry LeGrand <<a href=3D"mailto:carolinaleps= @duke.edu" class=3D""><carolinaleps...></a>><br class=3D""> <b class=3D"">Date:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>M= ay 14, 2022 at 5:48:01 AM GMT+5:30<br class=3D""> <b class=3D"">To:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>car= olinaleps <<a href=3D"mailto:<carolinaleps...>" class=3D"">carolinal= <eps...></a>>, Harry LeGrand <<a href=3D"mailto:hlegrandjr@gmail.= com" class=3D""><hlegrandjr...></a>><br class=3D""> <b class=3D"">Subject:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </spa= n><b class=3D"">Butterflies of North Carolina project just created on iNatu= ralist</b><br class=3D""> <b class=3D"">Reply-To:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </sp= an>Harry LeGrand <<a href=3D"mailto:<hlegrandjr...>" class=3D"">hle= <grandjr...></a>><br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> </div> <div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"">=EF=BB=BF <div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D""> <div class=3D""></div> <div class=3D"">Folks,</div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">Something I or someone else should have done a number of ye= ars ago was to create a project on iNaturalist that would automatically pul= l all photos uploaded onto the site with the following two criteria: butter= fly and North Carolina -- into a single project.  Based on my experience recently with reviewing rare plant p= hotos for NC in that project, I decided today to create a new project: Butt= erflies of North Carolina.  Here is the home page:<br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D""><a href=3D"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam02.safeli= nks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps3A2F2Furldefense.com2Fv32F__htt= ps3A2F2Fwww.inaturalist.org2Fprojects2Fbutterflies-of-north-carolina__= 3B!!OToaGQ!6V-o9F2U3iUsZXBh3DqbdQerAk_Sbbi97oJHfOgzkpCDHlLbX_9Guj-XJZ-K3qY= LLDg24&data=3D057C017Cabdulalis40ecu.edu7C708483b8ae204ca2fd7f08da= 3573208d7C17143cbb385c4c45a36ac65b72e3eae87C07C07C6378810658392158827C= Unknown7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiL= CJXVCI6Mn03D7C30007C7C7C&sdata=3DcDnJLcEJmUqsfSr9lyv2G2FlmxhX9ssa= a5UnhZPN2Bu3A3D&reserved=3D0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJS= Ul!!OToaGQ!8mSoeVy_hG2VqkpV32qX2Ag41tWvuRAzL87VpaaQ2Jyx5nb9jKIotyKatdL29pb8= m0A$" originalsrc=3D"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inaturalist.or= g/projects/butterflies-of-north-carolina__;!!OToaGQ!6V-o9F2U3iUsZXBh3DqbdQe= rAk_Sbbi97oJHfOgzkpCDHlLbX_9Guj-XJZ-K3qYLLDg$" shash=3D"J/Jx1WIZiIbxd2S6w5Y= KD322jIYtxx3aFf7Mg2peu2f6e8vMjul324DgHO+dsujDPBKL7A5NHoLtggzCusV4iicEslqP7y= 3d6YFYpVkB3obUqGXC7/oe9TXSPl095hO0kxrs3/cy6ZiTj7EILonMa0fswleB62ewhAnKO3MMR= kQ=3D" class=3D"">https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterflies-of-north= -carolina</a></div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">As you can tell from that page, all of the previou records = submitted that are butterflies and in NC are here -- 48,000+.  This do= es not mean all are correctly identified.  But, at least it allows you= to peruse the entries, starting with the most recent, to see what is being submitted.  Of course, the common and co= nspicuous ones dominate!  And, you can see that Rob Van Epps is narrow= ly ahead of Salman Abdulali in # of species submitted.  Lori Owenby ha= s submitted the most butterfly photos.</div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">Some to many of you already upload photos here -- butterfli= es, wildflowers, whatever plant or animal you feel worth uploading. <u= class=3D""><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>I do not wan= t folks to stop submitting your butterfly trip lists to carolinaleps! </u><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </sp= an>Rather, if you DO have a photo or two worth posting on iNaturalist -- pa= rticularly a less common species as opposed to another E. Tiger Swallowtail= -- I encourage posting to iNaturalist.  You DO have to Sign Up/Join to post photos.  You do NOT have to join simp= ly to look at the photos of others. <span class=3D"Apple-converted-spa= ce"> </span><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">To get to the Butterflies of North Carolina project, from t= he original Home Page, go to Community at the top, click Projects from the = dropdown, and then in the Search box enter -- Butterflies of North Carolina= .   If you just enter North Carolina you won't see it, as there are dozens of projects in NC; and entering Butt= erflies won't catch it either, as there are dozens of butterfly projects.</= div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">Enjoy looking at the records.  Very few of them have p= robably been entered into the big database of the Butterflies of North Caro= lina website, though I generally do glean important records at the end of t= he year.  And, Salman, who uses the "subscription" function, gets all records daily in an e-mail; so he has been tipping me o= ff for a few years of really notable ones.<br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">Harry LeGrand</div> <div class=3D""><br class=3D""> </div> <div class=3D"">PS -- On the project page, or the home page, of course you = CAN simply enter a species name and North Carolina in the 2 fields (species= and location), to see all photos of a given species in North Carolina.&nbs= p; For example, there are 7 photos uploaded for Berry's Skipper in NC, all considered as accepted =3D Research Grade.&= nbsp;<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br class=3D""> </body> </html> --_000_3014F62B60CF4E91B6B5C2C26A616C70ecuedu_--