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 was trying to distinguish M. disstria vs M. americanum last week. Good to see a M. disstria example. From BugGuide: "larva of Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) has a broken dorsal line forming keyhole or footprint shapes along its back, and generally more blue on its body, including the face. Larvae form silken mats where they congregate, not tents."
I have pics of both from the last few weeks...I feel pretty confident that the ID is correct...though, BAMONA has a pic that looks like this guy labeled M. americanum...the description and pics of the two in the book "Caterpillars of Eastern North America" is what I based my ID on. I submitted these pics for ID on BAMONA...(I just checked the site) and they were verified as such by Roger Downer. My eastern sighting was on the 12th if you want to compare the two from the same location.
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 was trying to distinguish M. disstria vs M. americanum last week. Good to see a M. disstria example. From BugGuide: "larva of Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) has a broken dorsal line forming keyhole or footprint shapes along its back, and generally more blue on its body, including the face. Larvae form silken mats where they congregate, not tents."
I have pics of both from the last few weeks...I feel pretty confident that the ID is correct...though, BAMONA has a pic that looks like this guy labeled M. americanum...the description and pics of the two in the book "Caterpillars of Eastern North America" is what I based my ID on. I submitted these pics for ID on BAMONA...(I just checked the site) and they were verified as such by Roger Downer. My eastern sighting was on the 12th if you want to compare the two from the same location.
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