Identification Resources-Ongoing

(The current plan is that this is going to be an ever-evolving post where I dump new identification resources.
Maybe I'll break up posts by Kingdom--let's see how unwieldy this gets!)

Identification resources:
Arthropods:

Butterfly eggs
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/eggs-egg-coverings-of-terrestrial-invertebrates/journal/82288
Moth eggs
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/eggs-egg-coverings-of-terrestrial-invertebrates/journal/83021
Hemiptera eggs
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/eggs-egg-coverings-of-terrestrial-invertebrates/journal/82290
Things mistaken for insect eggs:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/eggs-egg-coverings-of-terrestrial-invertebrates/journal/82165
ScaleNet-ID insect scales
https://scalenet.info/
Particularly useful is the "Ecological Associates" tab at the top where you can look up lists of scale species by host plants https://scalenet.info/associates/
Currently I look up host plant, then plug the scale genus into iNat for photos. Many species do not have photos on iNaturalist or even when searching the internet.

Tree cricket ID:
Nancy Collins’s iNaturalist bio has ID tips and sources:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/760944

Moths and butterflies in North America:

https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/publications/3739
Miller, Jeffrey C.; Hammond, Paul C. 2003. Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: caterpillars and adults. FHTET-2003-03. Morgantown, VW: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team. 324 p. (Online only)

http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species_list.php?state=#7135
Can look up photos by state. Useful to have a genus to start with.

https://www.butterfliesoforegon.com/

Horticultural plant arthropods-some photos
(see long list on side of individual entry)
https://pnwhandbooks.org/insect/hort/landscape/hosts-pests-landscape-plants/douglas-fir-pseudotsuga-douglas-fir-needle-midge

All things aphid:
Natalie Hernandez’s intro page:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/790537

Kingdom Plants:

Washington State Lomatium ID guide:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/jhorthos/77410-lomatium-identification

Seed resources (seeds often look like insect eggs or insects!)(Thanks @harsiparker !)
http://www.hazmac.biz/seedphotoslistgenus.html
https://www.plantatlas.eu/repository

Mosses:
Common Mosses of Western Oregon and Washington by Bruce McCune and Martin Hutten (Book):
https://www.wildblueberrymedia.net/store/common-mosses-of-western-oregon-and-washington

Mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lichens, lichenicolous fungi:
Rambryum's journal posts with excellent resources for identifying Mosses, Liverworts, Hornworts, Lichens, and Lichenicolous Fungi:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rambryum

Lichens:
Book: Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest by Bruce McCune and Linda Geiser
Overview of lichen forms Wikipedia (online): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen_growth_forms#Leprose
The Lichens of British Columbia: Illustrated Keys by Goward, McCune, Meidinger (online):
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp59329
Or at https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/srs/srs08.htm

Posted on February 16, 2023 08:53 PM by chyroptera chyroptera

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