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אוקטובר 15, 2019

iNaturalist hack for restricting Lepidoptera observations to moths

I went to this forum discussion: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63

Without restating the entire post:
When you go to the Observations page at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations you will have the chance to filter for YOUR observations. When you choose that option, you will see that a url has been generated for your user id. Now, specify a search for Lepidoptera.

You will then find an inserted string: &taxon_id=47157

Your observations are now limited to Lepidoptera. To exclude all the butterflies for a moth-only list, you simply have to insert into the url address the excluded taxon id string for Papilionoidea: &without_taxon_id=47224

You can insert this neatly following the &taxon_id=47157 or at the very end of your url. You'll get the same results either way.

Thus, I developed my own url:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&taxon_id=47157&without_taxon_id=47224&user_id=annainok&verifiable=any

This gives me all my moths, without my butterflies (excluding Superfamily Papilionoidea)

Just putting this here so I can find it...it's probably old news to everyone else. :)

הועלה ב-אוקטובר 15, 2019 04:22 אחה"צ על ידי annainok annainok | תגובה 1 | הוספת תגובה

אוקטובר 16, 2019

A simple idea.

In 2001, when my family and I moved to Sawyer, Oklahoma, I was shocked at the lack of inclusion of our area in scientific activity and records, whether professional or amateur, despite our diverse ecological systems and abundant wildlife. As I've learned in the years since, the reasons for that are a complex mix of social, educational, and economic factors that need to be addressed if the true scope of Oklahoma's wildlife is to be uncovered.

To that end, what can one person do? I began with a simple project in mind: cataloging the flora and fauna found on our small 60-acre farm. We're uniquely situated in an area bordered by state park/conservation managed lands on the southeastern edge of Hugo Lake, a mile or so northeast of the Kiamichi River and less than ten miles northwest of its eventual destination: the Red River that divides Texas and Oklahoma. Our property contains two ponds: one five-acre and the other about a half-acre, at opposite ends of the farm.

We've run goats and cows on our land for about twelve out of the past eighteen years, using almost no chemicals except for the occasional spot treatment a few times. After a couple of tough years fighting hay drought, this past winter we dropped our cows and are now looking to convert to pollinator/bird/wildlife habitat. It's a project of no small effort. It will take a while, but in the first summer, I have been shocked to see how quickly the native plants have recovered.

It's my hope that I will be able to establish a practice that encourages other family farms to establish their own small spaces that will help to create pollinator/bird-friendly habitat.

הועלה ב-אוקטובר 16, 2019 11:35 אחה"צ על ידי annainok annainok | תגובה 1 | הוספת תגובה

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