Everyone can see the coordinates unless the taxon is threatened.
Obscured
Public coordinates shown as a random point within 10KM of the true coordinates. True coordinates are only visible to you and the curators of projects to which you add the observation.
private
Coordinates completely hidden from public maps, true coordinates only visible to you and the curators of projects to which you add the observation. Observations with private coordinates will still be used to verify place check lists.
I think you have a Manduca sexta. I have never heard them referred to as Carolina Sphinx, the name that the iNaturalist search supplied. I have usually heard Manduca sexta called the tobacco hornworm even though it is found on tomato plants more commonly than M. quinquemaculata, the species called tomato hornworm. Here's a site with info on their differences: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/hornworm.htm
Thanks Barb...I always thought they were just different names for the same caterpillar. As many as I picked off of tomato plants in my life you would think I would have known the difference.
The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All
observations start as "casual" grade, and achieve
"research" grade when
the iNat community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing"
identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the
observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi
says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees with Scott.
the observation has a date
the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates)
the observation has a photo
Observations will revert to "casual" grade if the above conditions aren't met or
the community agrees the location doesn't looks accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean, hippos in office buildings, etc.)
the community agrees the organism isn't wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans or intelligent space aliens)
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I think you have a Manduca sexta. I have never heard them referred to as Carolina Sphinx, the name that the iNaturalist search supplied. I have usually heard Manduca sexta called the tobacco hornworm even though it is found on tomato plants more commonly than M. quinquemaculata, the species called tomato hornworm. Here's a site with info on their differences: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/hornworm.htm
Thanks Barb...I always thought they were just different names for the same caterpillar. As many as I picked off of tomato plants in my life you would think I would have known the difference.
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