Joined: Jul 3, 2014 Last Active: Sep 7, 2024 iNaturalist Monthly Supporter since November 2021
B.A. in Biology. Worked in pharmacology, now retired. Lifelong addiction to identifying life-forms. Love taxonomy. Obsessed birder since 1999. Previous preoccupations with turtles, cacti, flora. Began studying bugs in 2012, when I discovered what they look like with a digital camera, and that I could contribute to public understanding of their distributions through websites such as BugGuide and iNaturalist.
I live in Buckingham Twp, Bucks Co, PA., and most of my recent observations are from local sites. I photograph and identify to the best of my ability any plants and animals I encounter. To give back to the community, as well as to increase my own expertise, I try to identify some groups for others. I am currently making ID's for Nippotipula of North America and Diptera of PA and NJ. I am very happy to answer any questions about ID's I have made.
When I die, I would like to have all my images and other content remain on iNaturalist. I have always been amazed at the incredible diversity that God has created, and I hope that my feeble efforts to highlight some of that diversity will help others to appreciate the magnificence of God.
iNaturalist search url's:
--general: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63
iNaturalist ID searches:
--ID all unconfirmed organisms submitted by me: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&order=asc&user_id=keimwj&place_id=any
ID guides created by other other contributors:
--Galls on Solidago: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ddennism/28052-goldenrod-galls (by Daniel McClosky).
--Diptera of the U.S. and Canada: https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide/home
(by Even & Zachary Dankowicz).
--Scathophagini of the eastern US and southeastern Canada: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/97329-key-to-scathophagini-of-the-eastern-us-and-southeastern-canada (by Chris Angell).
--Yamatotipula with marked wings in the US and Canada: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/22668-checklist-of-and-guide-to-the-crane-flies-in-the-subgenus-yamatotipula-tipulidae-tipula-with-marked-wings-in-the-us-and-canada-beta (by Arturo Sanchez).
ID keys and tools online:
--Flora of Michigan: https://michiganflora.net/family-key.aspx (University of Michigan Herbarium).
--Insect wing venation: http://drawwing.org/.
--Key to Physocephala of the U.S. and Canada: https://zdankowicz.github.io/keys/identikit/physocephala (Zachary Dankowicz)
--Crane Flies of Pennsylvania: https://www.invertebratezoology.org/cranefly/index.htm (Young)
--Catalogue of the Crane Flies of the World: https://ccw.naturalis.nl/index.php (Oosterbroek).
--Tabanidae of Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains 2: a photographic key to the genera and species of Tabaninae (Diptera: Tabanidae): https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/t-13/ (Thomas).
--Robber Flies of Florida and the Southeast: https://robberfly.org/ (Collins).
--Aphids on the World's Plants: http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info (Blackman & Eastop)
--Lygus lineolatus vs. L. vanduzeei: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139420698.
--Hoppers of North Carolina: https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/bugs/index.php (Kittelberger).
--Reduviidae of Alabama: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336721188_The_Reduviidae_Hemiptera_Heteroptera_of_Alabama_with_a_morphological_key_to_species (Clem, Swanson & Ray).
--Phymata of North America: https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/mw-41/ (Masonick & Weirauch).
--Yellowjackets and hornets of North America: https://bugguide.net/node/view/35661 (Thomas).
--Larvae of North American Lepidoptera: https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/LarvaeIndex.shtml (Balaban & Balaban).
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