ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

0007 Behind the scenes at BugGuide: the community behind half a million submitted specimens

Sunday, November 13, 2011: 10:30 AM
Room A2, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
John VanDyk , Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
BugGuide.net is a hive of activity for citizens, scientists, and citizen scientists. It offers a place where individual contributions add to the value of the whole. Incoming photographic submissions are identified and classified by volunteer editors creating a guide to North American insects that currently comprises over 36,000 pages.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.54449