{"id":6369,"date":"2024-07-25T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2024-07-25T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:31:15","slug":"butterfly-data-on-inaturalist-biased-toward-easily-photographed-or-interesting-looking-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/6369","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d804be6aac8\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d804be6aac8\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>6369"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Slightly surprising to me that this wasn&#8217;t known, or assumed already. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.inaturalist.org\/t\/interesting-paper-on-which-butterflies-are-over-under-represented-in-rg-observations-in-usa-canada\/53788\">discussion about the paper on the iNaturalist forum<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-butterflies-people-pretty-problem-scientists.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"When it comes to butterflies, people prefer pretty ones: That\u2019s a problem for scientists.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2024\/07\/butterflies-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">When it comes to butterflies, people prefer pretty ones: That\u2019s a problem for scientists.<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">[Users] underreported many species, particularly those that were difficult to identify and those with light-colored markings on their wings. Behavioral traits, such as butterflies' flight style and height, and traits that make butterflies difficult to photograph, may have affected reporting patterns, the researchers surmise.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Slightly surprising to me that this wasn&#8217;t known, or assumed already. Here&#8217;s discussion about the paper on the iNaturalist forum.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[31665,31664,31661,30216,31663,31330,29080,14118,31662],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-benjamin-goldstein","tag-ebutterfly","tag-frontiers-in-ecology-and-the-environment","tag-inaturalist","tag-laura-melissa-guzman","tag-north-america","tag-north-carolina-state-university","tag-science","tag-university-of-southern-california","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}