Euro 24 Annotatathon Tour

Hi all,

With the Euros about to start I did wonder about taking a continental excursion...

Now I don't wish to detract from the good work we are doing with UK hoverflies, but it did occur to me that I'm likely to end up watching a goodly number of matches without necessarily being engrossed by them... and my laptop will be handy. I think I might set about doing some annotating in the countries that are playing - perhaps swapping at half time!

Anyway, feel free to join me. As you can see below, most of Europe is still at the levels of annotation that the UK was before this project got underway. In fact, after the success of November's annotatathon and our subsequent activities, more than half of European hoverflies with life stage annotations are now in the UK! (and just under half of those with sex annotations). There aren't really any additional confusing things for annotations in the rest of Europe compared to the UK, and it's a great opportunity to learn if you are new to this.

Adding annotations is a great way for beginners to see the diversity of hoverflies. It's fairly simple, you can even avoid the few tricky genera completely by sticking to the subfamily Syrphinae. Here's how to do it. (Of course you don't need to be watching the football!).

You can use the links from the Useful URLs post, but just change the country.

Here are the participants in the Euros, showing first the percentage of hoverflies with annotations, and secondly the absolute numbers of annotations compared to the total number of hoverfly observations in each country (in green):

Publicado el 13 de junio de 2024 a las 07:59 PM por matthewvosper