Displaying only adults or only juveniles

Software exists in BugGuide to easily list the thumbnails of all the images that have been moved somewhere under the Lepidoptera node that have neither adult nor immature checked. John VanDyk added a link to that software to our contributor page so every day, or every other day, we click on that link and it shows us the images that need to be fixed. We don't open the images, just mark at the thumbnails whether it is immature or adult. It's very simple. When we were first assigned the job there were over a thousand images unmarked. We'd do ten pages, maybe a hundred images, each time we checked into BugGuide. It took maybe five minutes. And in a few days we were all caught up! Now we keep up with about 30 seconds of work every couple of days.

We mention this because we assume it would be just as easy to set up the same software for another editor on another group of species where this might be important - Heteroptera, or even Hemiptera! It would take a few days to catch up, but after that it's easy sailing. We're guessing Coleoptera and Diptera would be more of a challenge since there are so many images, but even they could be done with a little patience.

Our only problem has come with eggs and pupae. We have always treated these as immature, but that means immature is consequently not the same as caterpillar for data purposes. For species which overwinter as eggs or pupae, this could be confusing to someone who is thinking the larvae are up and about in the north in January! At some point we should decide if all four possible stages of insect life should be treated separately.

Anyway, we mention this, since before we had access to the special software link we were able to add adult/immature info only by opening the image to first see if it was already there and then adding it and then opening the next image. Now we know it is actually much easier than that and thought we should share that fact.