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Pine tree bug, 12:02pm - Dichrooscytus

Pine tree bug, 12:02pm - Dichrooscytus
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
June 29, 2008
I have no idea why..I don't notice these details until i put them on large size.

Is there any point posting these? There isn't much point if no-one can I.D. them.

Moved
Moved from Plant Bugs.

How about

Re: Any point posting these?
Good question. Here's an odd answer (hey, consider the source)...

If you feel some connection to the insect or type of insect, post it. If you don't get an ID soon, you may some day. More and more people are finding more and more ways to identify a critter from photos. Plus, new faces at the site often result in new IDs.

Personally, I like bee flies. After quite a dry spell on IDs, Joel Kits urged me to keep posting. I did. Ultimately, he moved a lot of my posts to genus then, later, along come Andy Calderwood and Matthias Buck with more IDs. I'm glad I was patient!

 
I don't want them.....
to disappear deep in the I.D. request were no-one will look...

 
Another interesting point.
Posts don't stay in ID Request forever. Currently, the oldest thing I could find there dates to April 2008. (FYI, there are about 1850 posts there today.) Some of the stuff gets discarded, or frassed, but most of it gets moved - typically by editors - to where it belongs. Example: Assuming this post makes the cut, it'll go to Plant Bugs. That's where an expert can find it later. (In the case of my bee flies, they went to Bee Flies. Check how few posts there are in Bee Flies now. At one point, I alone had more than a hundred.)

It's a lot easier on the editors if you move your own posts. So on the bee flies, I'd leave the post in ID request for a couple of days, then move it to Bee Flies. You should consider doing something similar, so early on your post gets maximum attention and later finds a home from which an expert can easily review it.

Hope this helps. I sorta ran on here, but if you have questions, feel free to email me at the address on my contributor's page.

Note that I am not an editor. They may have a different take on some/all of what I've suggested you do. The bee fly people wanted and encouraged more posts; the plant bug folks and others may not.

 
Thanks for this intresting reply..
maybe something like this should be posted in Help etc.?
I'm sure alot of people don't know this.

 
You're welcome. Glad you read Help.
It took me months to find it, and it's ignored by most people.

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