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Announcement: Here's something interesting! John Pickering https://www.discoverlife.org/who/CV/Pickering,_John.html has offered us an opportunity to work on scientific research that will be published. I'll add more info below.
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- Submitted: Nov 23, 2023
- Photographed: Nov 23, 2023
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: On Flower
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
The image credit goes to Google. The Gboard keyboard app can be used to mix emojis to find the creations Google employees made from the mixes. This is Spider + Daisy emojis mixed together. John Pickering is crowd sourcing his massive data collections for organization. He has been gathering years of data in Georgia, USA to look for any impact from the introduce Joro Spiders, Trichonephila Clavata. He has thousands of photos of insects and spiders that need to be identified. He would like our help with the spiders. We can be listed as co-researchers on the published studies if… Read more »
He is allowing us to use any Georgia Spider photos on SpiderID if we give the proper credit for the photos. I think there are about 19,000 photos of spiders taken by researchers. I haven’t contacted Kyle, our Administrator yet about this. If we need to we can all volunteer individually. I can post the contact link. He also wants volunteers to help expand his Georgia spider identification guide. Right now it only has 16 species. We can’t use our site photos without permission from the photographers. I’ll update you when I have more info. There is a contact link… Read more »
Hey, thats great. Thanks John.