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Images posted and viewed, but come back with no species name.

I have been sending images of nomada bees, with top, side and facial views. Most have come back with no name attached to them on returned emails. I Know many nomada species are challenging to identify. I have about twenty more to try and
get Identified. All are from the highest quality prairie , savannah and woods that remain in SE, MN's Driftless Region. Which has never been surveyed for native bees, until I began the SEMNBS three years ago. As I keyed out some of these nomada's on Discover life, The nomada species have all been for this region, either rare or extremely rare and I believe this trend will only continue. So if they cannot be identified through images, is there another course of action available for these species identification? On a separate topic, thank you to all of the people generously volunteering their time and expertise to help others discover the life that is all around us.

Meadowlark Scott

If you click on "Your Images" at the upper right
of the page, you will see the images you have posted. If you click on any one of those images you will see a line or two of blue taxonomy above your image. That indicates where your image has been moved. If you are still not sure you can click on Info when looking at any of your images and you will see information about the group of insects where your image has been placed. If that's not what you were asking, just try again and we'll try to explain better.

 
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John and Jane,

Thank you for spelling it out for me!

Scott Leddy

You may still get your IDs
Dr Ascher sometimes moves images in bulk to a group area in the guide then returns to move images to species pages. Only time will tell

Images posted
You can see where you images have been posted by looking at taxonomy sequence above the image. It looks like most have been moved by John Ascher, our bee expert, to the Nomada ruficornis species group. This is probably as far as you'll get from images.

Also I'd suggest linking any photos that are of the same individual bee.

 
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Brad,

Would you please elaborate about where images are placed, how to find them in the species group, in this case the ruficornis group. I am finding a photo image # above the image. Obviously I am new at this, thank you for your patience and understanding.

Scott

 
Sure
John & Jane explained it some too, but I'll give it a shot as well.

If you look at this image you posted: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1061987

Above your photo, you will see its photo number. Above that you'll see a series of links that show where in the "site taxonomy" your images have been placed. In this case, you'll see a series of taxonomic groups leading down from Insects & Hymenoptera to the ruficornis group and finally to the species Nomada luteoloides. The same links will appear above every photo, showing you at a glance where in the guide you image is located.

You can also utilize the series of tabs above that (taxonomy, browse, info, etc) to find out more information, browse related taxa and see more images.

 
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Brad,

You explained things very clearly, Thank's for everything!

Scott

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