NelsonJan 24

To diversify my wildlife ID efforts away from LLM-infected enshittifying iNaturalist, I've made an account on BugGuide and uploaded my first bug ID request, for a nomad bee:

https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/2516237

BugGuide feels more like the old web and hopefully won't lose its mind chasing AI money from Google.

Original iNaturalist observation, which is stuck at "Needs ID":

 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/279310725

#BugGuide #InsectID #NomadBees #bees #insects

Colin PurringtonApr 24, 2025
I prefer to have a species identification on the photographs I post, but this one is more of a PSA: take lots of pics and don't throw any away, because you never what angle an expert on iNaturalist or BugGuide might need to make the call. I *think* this might be Ceratina calcarata (a carpenter bee), but it turns out one of the diagnostic characters is a triangular swelling on the hind femur, something (of course) I didn't know at the time. A frame that I'd normally trash (right pic) shows it. #inaturalist #bugguide #bees #dandelion #taxonomy #insects #macrophotography
Show threadFlatbush Gardener 🌈May 22, 2024

@colinpurrington
Reportedly back as of an hour or so ago.

I'm busy working in the garden. Will check later. This morning I wanted to tag a BG IDer [Robert "Bob" Zuparko] on an iNat Diplazontinae observation, if they also have an account there. [He does not, that I can find.]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214802574

#iNaturalist #BugGuide #Hymenoptera #Wasps #GardenEcology #UrbanGardens #MoarBugz

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Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasps (Subfamily Diplazontinae)

Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasps from Beverly Square East, New York, United States on May 9, 2024 at 02:34 PM by Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener). Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasp (Diplazontinae) hunting on Allium leaves with Aphids present in my fron...

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈May 22, 2024

Oof! BugGuide is down?!

https://bugguide.net/node/view/2354194

Since I can't rely on BugGuide as a record of my own Observations, I've given up on it in favor of iNaturalist. However, I'll still occasionally upload a difficult or unusual subject to BugGuide ID Request, to solicit ideas from that community.

#NorthAmerica #Entomology #Arthropods #BugGuide

cc: @darwin

Show threadFlatbush Gardener 🌈Feb 17, 2023

Added my stonefly to BugGuide.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2219752

#BugGuide #Photo #Photography #InsectPhotography #Flickr​
#Insecta #Insects #Insect #Stonefly #Stoneflies #Plecoptera #Bugs #BugsOfMastodon

Stonefly - Taeniopteryginae?

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Show threadColin PurringtonDec 3, 2022
@nev What's amazes me is that even though they are common and bizarre, nobody on #iNaturalist or #BugGuide bothers to explain how to ID them to genus. I spent about 8 hours before landing on Trombidium, mainly because of peer pressure. I just ordered a mite book though so maybe I'll get some insights from that.