10,000 Caterpillars!
I just added our 10,000th observation! Happened to be a really nicely-lit picture of a Apatelodes torrefacta by @erasmus. These 10,000 observations include 477 species (at least - many have not yet been identified to species), and were made by a total of 3,107 observers. The most frequent species at this point are monarch (532), isabella tiger moth (506), eastern tent caterpillar moth (457), hickory tussock moth (387), & milkweed tussock moth (363). I have exported all the data and will put together a summary sometime in the next week with more stats.
Thanks to everyone who has been helping to add observations, especially @berkshirenaturalist, @kylejones, & @jtuttle. I would say that somewhere on the order of 10% of the Lepidoptera observations that I review are at the caterpillar stage, which means 10,000 caterpillar observations represent something like 100,000 total observations sifted through. Great work, everyone! Give yourselves a pat on the back.
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Excellent! It's been fun watching the top species "compete" for positions on the leaderboard as we add observations and IDs.
Awesome indeed! :)
Great milestone! :D
Now over 11,000, and approaching 500 species. Wagner depicts 593 in Caterpillars of Eastern Forests - I wonder if we can get them all!
Ooh...now there's a fun goal!
You have more than 600 species now! Does that include all 593 from the book? Seems like a good time for another journal post!
Yeah, I'm definitely overdue for that, it's been a crazy year so far. I need to go through the book and list all the species (or try to get a list from the author - I just sent him an email) so that I can do a comparison & see where we have potential additions and what me might still be missing. More ideas than follow-through at the moment, I'm afraid. Also, for accuracy, I just checked the preface and 593 is the number of species in the book for which photographs are provided, not the total number of species included.
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