Journal archives for September 2020

September 17, 2020

New taxa added

I have now added all relevant families, subfamilies, tribes and genera to the allowed taxa list, plus some species complexes. That should now cover anything you might want to add to the project. If you cannot confidently id a moth to species, it is best to get at least to one of the higher taxa, up to superfamily. If you find a moth not on the list, either it is wrongly id'd, or it is a new species to the Massachusetts list. Please contact me if you think you have a new species (still plenty out there to find!). Thanks for joining the project! Steven
Posted on September 17, 2020 08:57 PM by swhitebread swhitebread | 0 comments | Leave a comment

September 18, 2020

Adding observations to the project

When posting an observation to iNaturalist, please remember to add Mass Moths to the project field, otherwise they will not appear in Mass Moths (for this type of project observations are not automatically added if you are a member). You can add existing observations either by adding Mass Moths to the project field on the right of the observation page, or you can do a bulk upload by going to the Mass Moths Project page and click 'Add from your observations'. You should be prompted each time to fill in the life stage and substrate fields. If your observation is of an adult, just click 'add observation' without filling out the fields ('egg' will show in the life stage field by default, but as long as you do not press 'add' alongside it, it will not be carried over to the database).
Posted on September 18, 2020 12:10 PM by swhitebread swhitebread | 3 comments | Leave a comment

September 23, 2020

Tufts Pollinators Bioblitz

This weekend, Tufts University is organizing a Bioblitz for pollinators and all photos of pollinators should be entered into iNaturalist.
https://sites.tufts.edu/pollinators/2020/09/urban-boston-fall-pollinator-bioblitz/
On their information page they make no mention of moths being pollinators! It would be great to get plenty of photos of moths visiting flowers - that of course will mainly be at night.

Posted on September 23, 2020 09:18 PM by swhitebread swhitebread | 0 comments | Leave a comment