Cincinnati Re-Wild - Backyard Ecological Restoration Umbrella's Journal

m_whitson just alerted me to some earth day hikes being offered this Saturday at NKUs Research and Education Field Station. It might be a good chance for some of us to meet each other if any of you would like to. I'm going to try to go to the one at 2:30. As always... no pressure. If you'd rather stay in the umbrella but keep your participation online only, that's fine too.

Email me if you plan on going to the one at 2:30 and we'll come up with an elaborate noise or hand gesture to alert our presence to one another.

Here are the details...
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/st-anne-woods-and-wetlands-flora-fauna/journal/78151-earth-day-hikes-at-refs-saturday-april-22-from-2-pm-4-pm

The following observation identifies a host plant for the Snowberry Clearwing caterpillar.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124162896

If you click the "Host plant:" label, you get the following pop-up...



Selecting "Observations with this field and value" presents you with a list of observations that have a "Host plant" of "Amsonia tabernaemontana". The end of the url for these results is "plant=126548"...

If I want to see observations with "Host plant: Garlic Mustard"... I'd need to change the url from ...plant=126548 to ...plant=56061. I can find the plant id for any plant by simply clicking "Explore" and entering the species I'm interested in. When I do this for Garlic Mustard, the url has a "taxon_id of 56061 for Garlic mustard...



This isn't very intuitive, but it's the only way I've been able to figure out how to do it and.... it works. If you are reading this and you are a high school student trying to think of a topic for a college admissions essay... consider the following.

My junior year in high school I wrote an interface to the public iNaturalist APIs that allowed professional ecologists to elegantly query and model data showing the insects using a particular host plant. You can use my interface built on top of the iNat api's by clicking here...xxxxxx.