{"id":302,"date":"2013-06-20T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unbc.ca\/huber\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:52:43","slug":"would-i-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Would I? You bet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re at all interested in the natural world and how we record it and learn about it, be sure to read a recent great post from Chris Buddle<\/a> entitled “Labels tell stories: natural history and ecology from dead spiders in vials<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Chris’ big question, about helping to digitize the spider collection at the Canadian National Collection of Insects,\u00a0Arachnids and Nematodes<\/a> is this:<\/p>\n

(W)ould YOU help database if you could go on-line and see these kinds of images? Does it grab your attention? Even if 20-30 people agreed to database 75 or so specimens, each, the Salticidae would be done! (and, of course, someone would have to take images, and edit them beforehand).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My answer is a resounding “yes!”<\/p>\n

In his post, Chris mentions\u00a0Notes from Nature<\/a>, where you can transcribe information from insect, plant and (soon) bird specimens. I’ve been having fun with that work for awhile now, and I have had some fun with labels as well.<\/p>\n

So, to back up Chris’ contention that there are interesting stories to be found on labels, how about this label<\/a>\u00a0that I transcribed a few weeks ago as a start…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0What’s the story here that I thought was interesting? Well, you can see on the bottom label that the determination was done in 1975 (26 years after initial collection) by John T. Huber. John is a noted entomologist with the Canadian Forest service, some of whose work was recently in the news with the discovery of a tiny, tiny, tiny insect<\/a>. John identified this little cuckoo wasp<\/a> in 1975 and I did the much easier task of transcribing the label in 2013. So two currently active Canadian entomologist Hubers have pored over this Elampus marginatus<\/em><\/a> specimen separated in time by 38 years.<\/p>\n

So, again, yes, I would be very interested in working on Canadian specimens as well, because I like stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re at all interested in the natural world and how we record it and learn about it, be sure to read a recent great post from Chris Buddle entitled “Labels tell stories: natural history and ecology from dead spiders in vials.” Chris’ big question, about helping to digitize the spider collection at the Canadian … <\/p>\n

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