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Posted by nick upton on 11-06-2010 10:53

Many thanks David for the species ID. I'd missed the images of this species in the gallery and my flies have a little less white on the abdomen, but no doubt this is a variable character and everything else looks right, and I read that C. holosericus has been recorded in many parts of Corsica.

Posted by nick upton on 11-06-2010 11:24

OK, will do, and I've been meaning to compile a batch of various subjects for consideration, including my recent Blephariceridae images and some others where the gallery is short of images or clear ones. Am juggllng too many things at the mo, but will work on this when I find a window!

Posted by Larry Shone on 11-06-2010 11:29

Paul Beuk wrote:
I assume I will see the pictures submitted for the Gallery soon, then. ;)

Ah this brings up something I was meaning to enquire about! If we get a positive ID on an insect on here can we then upload it to the Gallery for all to see?

Posted by nick upton on 11-06-2010 12:41

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FYI Larry, when I first joined up, Chris Raper gave me this detailed advice re Gallery uploads:

All photos to the Gallery need to be submitted and approved by me or Paul ... it can mean there is a delay between you submitting them and us approving and cataloguing them.

If you look on the left-hand side you should see Gallery Links and if you expand this menu by clicking the triangle you'll see "Submit Photo for Gallery". The limits/rules are basically the same as with photos on the forum.

There aren't really any rules but we just try to fill in gaps so if
you have a species/sex that isn't in the gallery (common or rare) or a much better photo than an existing one then that's a good reason for submitting. Behavioral shots are also useful if they show something interesting or characteristic of the species. The last word is with Paul but we don't delete many submissions - but we do try to stick below 7 photos of the same thing.

Paul likes to name them like "Tachina fera (male) (1)" and so on so if you could look at the gallery and name your photo so that it will slot in easily then it is appreciated - it saves us renaming the titles for each one.

NB from my (NickU's) perspective when trying to match my pics with possible IDs, , it really helps to know WHERE a shot was taken, and this isn't always listed from what I've seen. More thumbnails of lesser know families would help too and I don't know how those are selected/created.