Diario del proyecto Flies of the US and Canada

Heyo, fly folk!

Today marks the first installment of our new system. We will NOT be having an organized Zoom workshop tonight, but the meeting room will be open if anyone wants to join (so long as Erika doesn't need her account; I won't be there).

Instead, my goal for you all this week is to make at least 5 identifications on observations currently listed under Axarus in the US/CA: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&place_id=1,6712&taxon_id=247591&lrank=genus

I hope that by next Sunday, that page will have close to 0 obs (187 as I write this). Please identify them to species groups or push them out of Axarus if they aren't such. For uncertain males, feel free to leave them for others to discuss.

You should use this slide deck as a reference: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dpFfbNdqFitqgefpTKceMofwf8rDXsX5/edit#slide=id.p5

Have fun! Leave comments here or in the forum group chat as you wish.

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Heyo, fly folk!

We will NOT be having an organized Zoom workshop tonight, but the meeting room will be open if anyone wants to join (so long as Erika doesn't need her account; I won't be there).

My goal for you all this week is to make at least 15 identifications on observations currently stuck at family level of Chironomidae in the US/CA: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&place_id=1%2C6712&taxon_id=53275&lrank=family

During our Axarus meeting, we learned how to recognize the subfamily Chironominae from the length of the fore basitarsus (longer than or as long as the fore tibia) and the absence of the crossvein m-cu, and the tribe Chironomini by the wing venation (r-m is oblique to R4+5).

We are currently at 34,778 observations left at family.

You should use this slide deck as a reference: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dpFfbNdqFitqgefpTKceMofwf8rDXsX5/edit#slide=id.p5

Have fun!

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Heyo, fly folk!

This week, we will review our diagnosis for the Chironominae and also work on learning how to recognize the other subfamilies in the US and Canada.

Date & Time: 8 PM EDT on Sunday, April 21st.

Join here: Meeting Link

Meeting ID: 874 5687 3015

Passcode: diptera

Resource: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HMhguh8FRPfcqrqnVqIIdZQPU2PmeEEG/edit

Identify Link we will use: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&place_id=1%2C6712&taxon_id=53275&lrank=family

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Heyo, fly folk!

We will NOT be having an organized Zoom workshop tonight, but the meeting room will be open if anyone wants to join (so long as Erika doesn't need her account; I won't be there).

SUCCESS My goal for you all this week is to help fix the Evidence of Presence for at least 15 of these observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=any&order_by=random&taxon_id=47822&photos=true&term_id=22&term_value_id=26

This is an attempt to help @michaelpirrello with the process outlined here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/50630

To skip past the other stuff, your task is to add Evidence of Presence: Leafmine as appropriate, and disagree with the Evidence of Presence: Track annotation. To do this quickly, you can press the buttons "e" then "l" to add the Leafmine annotation, then click on the thumbs down next to the Track. I'm happy to help troubleshoot if necessary.

We are currently at 2,374 obs.

Have fun!

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