Possible Flat-backed Millipede - Order Polydesmida - Apheloria virginiensis

The restriction on others enlarging your images

serves two purposes. One, it means that if someone is going to steal your image, the most they can get away with is the 560 pixel reduction. And two, restricting folks to the 560 pixel reduction means that you need to crop away all the junk from your image so that the 560 pixel image will be large enough for you to get an ID, which in turn makes the thumbnail sized image of your contribution useful, rather than just a grey blob that doesn't even seem to be insect related. Thumbnails of uncropped images are just not helpful on the site. Hope that explains why we ask people to crop their images. Thanks for doing it.

… john and jane balaban, 12 May, 2016 - 9:40pm

I understand. I just thought

I understand. I just thought that it is sometimes helpful to see the specimen in it's natural habitat. Thanks for the explanation.

… cofogus, 13 May, 2016 - 6:51am

Yes, you can post some closeups

and some distance shots if you think the habitat images will help with the ID. Folks often do that with insects that are eating plants. They will post an image from farther away of the plant with the hope that the plant identification will help the insect ID. But once the insect ID has been made, the distance shots are usually removed.

… john and jane balaban, 13 May, 2016 - 9:16am

Makes sense! Thanks for the

Makes sense! Thanks for the guidance!

… cofogus, 13 May, 2016 - 9:26am

Moved

Moved from Millipedes.

It is Apheloria virginiensis corrugata, they are pretty millipedes.

I think only a couple of these photos are needed, feel free to frass the extras.

Welcome to BugGuide, good to see more Ohio submissions.

… Jeff Brown, 12 May, 2016 - 9:01pm

Thanks for the id! That's gr

Thanks for the id! That's great!

… cofogus, 13 May, 2016 - 6:53am

Moved for expert attention

Moved from ID Request.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 May, 2016 - 8:57pm

Please be sure to crop your pics...

...as close to "just the bug" as possible. Only you and the editors have the ability to "zoom in" and see the full size images. Everyone else is left looking at a little bug in a lot of unnecessary background. :)

You can click on "edit" under each pic, and simply upload a cropped version. It will replace the current image.

Thanks--and welcome to BugGuide!

… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 May, 2016 - 8:23pm

Interesting...being a compute

Interesting...being a computer engineer, I find the technology has failed us here.

… cofogus, 12 May, 2016 - 8:30pm

There's not much technology required :)

MS Paint or a similar application is all you need. What you're looking for is something like the image above, which I cropped as an example.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 May, 2016 - 8:39pm

LOL Not that part...that is e

LOL Not that part...that is easy...I was speaking to the inability for anyone other than me or an editor to enlarge a simple image on this site. I'm working on the cropping. Thanks.

… cofogus, 12 May, 2016 - 8:42pm

Gotcha

Unfortunately, the site is what it is. Thanks for cropping.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 May, 2016 - 8:58pm

No problem...I didn't mean to

No problem...I didn't mean to be snarky. :)

… cofogus, 13 May, 2016 - 6:50am

Sorry, we didn't think you were snarky

We just wanted to give some explanation for the rule. Hope you didn't think we were being critical. We didn't mean to be. Words on a page with no voice tone or facial expression are so difficult to interpret. Sorry

… john and jane balaban, 13 May, 2016 - 9:13am

I totally agree. No worries.

I totally agree. No worries. I hope to contribute more specimens in the future. My wife and I have 10 acres of mainly wooded land with several creeks, a pond, etc. We're always bug and animal scouting. :)

… cofogus, 13 May, 2016 - 9:25am