Is something wrong?

...I'm still feeling my way around this site even though I've been here a couple of months. I don't really know what should be done with pictures in the Guide.

It just seems to me that if the 100s (1000s?) of people who upload photos here leave everything in the Guide, then the Guide would become unmanageable with an excess of pictures, subtraction by addition, so to speak.

In the meantime I'm trying to manage my photos and get rid of any that I don't care for and/or I think don't add any value to what's already on the particular guide page.

If there are guidelines as to what one should be doing about their Guide photos, please provide a link to them. Or if you have an opinion as to what should be done, I'd be interested in hearing that.

Thanks for asking.

think the image adds anything to the guide, then, of course, feel free to frass any of your images. Just remember that we are our harshest critics, so don't demand perfection of yourself. We would say that if it is a reasonable quality image, one that clearly shows the species ID and there are only a few images from your area, then we would leave it. If the quality is low, dark or poor focus or motion and there are already a dozen in the guide from your area, then, yes, frass. We hope others will answer your question also, since there are as many opinions as there are folks on BugGuide. Keep shootin'!

There aren't too many from New York, but here is a nother bit of reasoning, which won't apply equally to all species. This "species" is by some Lepidopterists thought to consist of a number of distinct species (I don't agree, but that's not the point - and, I might be wrong). There are lots of local populations that look different, and there is a lot of variation even within populations. Sometimes those that fly in the spring look different than those that fly in the summer. So, this compilation of photos with dates and locations is a great resource for information (at least on appearance) of this species from place to place and date to date. So, I would say, if there are only a few from an entire state, leaving a few more posted is a good thing. However, if we had dozens from the same area (we don't), that would become sort of pointless (except perhaps to a Coenonympha fanatic - of which there are of course a few :0).

It is quite probable that down the line, the pages for this species will be divided up into more than one taxon (subspecies, or perhaps species), and then it won't seem so "loaded up". It will be good to have this.

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