#2025 entomo goals

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nova nova
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Hijacking Z's idea because I think it's a pretty neat way of keeping records

iNaturalist goals:
Get to page 1000 on my journey to curate all Neuroptera observations and sort them into projects
Get to 1000 identifications (the critters I know how to ID are not posted with enough detail on inat for me to be able to)

Broadly academic goals
Graduate my bachelor's
Graduate my lecturer's
Study for the master's admission exam (to be taken in 2026)

Scientific goals
Publish at least one paper
Get to the mark of 10 species of Coniopterygidae in my state
Find a new species of Conio
Get another victim undergrad student (this one is not only on me, but I'd like to see it happen)
Make new colleagues within the Neuroptera community

Life history goals
Find more spots to collect Coniopterygidae (try to collect at least once a week)
Find Myrmeleontidae larva on campus
Succesfully rear to adulthood Ascalaphinae larvae
Rear Coniopterygidae larvae to adulthood (I mean, even getting them to eat would be great)
Breed some kind of Neuroptera in captivity. See the whole life cycle.
Photograph (with a camera) adult Myrmeleontidae

Things I wanna see
Adult Myrmeleontidae from campus collected by myself
Coniopteryx paranana better if I collect them myself. The type location is the city I live, for ffs
Some kind of Aleuropteryginae
More centipedes. Cool lil fuckers.
Embiopterans that aren't the invasive ones.
Ephemeroptera (if possible, not laying eggs or exploding on our samples, that would be great)
Plecoptera

Things I might make or buy
If someone working with Ascalaphinae joins the lab I might make a Burlese funnel or a Winkler
New double needle (I broke mine while making my net)
Leg gaiters (idiot ass lost mine)

sly hare
nova nova
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ohhh mate, I didn't know that you had dropped out, sorry for bringing up college then

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I'm sure many entomologists would be stoked to have you as one of their students

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But good luck with that, I promissed it's worth it
High school was torture for me, but college has been like 70% good

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I'm graduating both semesters this year, which means my status will soon change from student to unemployed lol

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I would be fucking stoked if you were to be my labmate

sly hare
sly hare
sly hare
nova nova
nova nova
nova nova
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January is almost over, so here's my progress:

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January progress
iNaturalist progress
Got to page 230 of Neuroptera observations (on this pace I won't meet the goal)
I currently have 642 IDs
I've also got a rude comment from someone after I messed up an ID, so I guess that's progress lol

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Broad academic goals
Can't graduate on anything since the semester haven't even started, but I've enrolled myself on a summer course that will take place on February, so I should be able to knock off most of my pending optional course hours

sly hare
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“Oh hey there’s Antlions here?!
Oh…”

nova nova
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Scientific goals
-Currently working on photographing specimens that I think will appear on a paper
-I've recieved material from my state that contains specimens from a species that I haven't IDed yet, but it's certainly at least a new state record, so we currently sit at 9 species

nova nova
sly hare
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Yeah it was just unnecessary 😭 it was a joy to see you and then I got whiplash from the comments

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if you need any help ID’ing Neuroptera or sorting em into projects lmk wahoorat I’ll keep funnelling you duskywings from insecta/pterygota/arthropoda when I see em

nova nova
nova nova
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Gave +1 Rep to @sly hare (current: #5 - 215)

nova nova
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If you see any obs of neuroptera mating, eating or being eaten I have profects for that, It would be nice to have help sorting them out

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also, laying eggs

sly hare
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Ooo send me the links Looking inat is weird and only lets me suggest projects for ones I’ve joined

nova nova
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ohhh yah, mine does that too

sly hare
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does it include predation when it comes to larva and stuff

nova nova
nova nova
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it's helpful seeing what they eat

sly hare
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Consider me joined wahoorat ty

nova nova
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I'm the one who is thankful lol, any help is appreciated

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thx mate

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sly hare
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Oooo gotcha wahoorat

nova nova
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Life history goals
-We found an additional spot to collect them! It's on the same kind of tree tho
-I went out to collect on every week of January but the first one, when I wasn't back to work yet

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Things I wanna see
I saw Coniopteryx paranana! I am not the one who collected it, it still feels great tho.

Things I wanna buy
Haven't bought any of them, but I travelled and I bought 7 T-shirts... I swear I needed new ones lol

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So yeah, that's my progress so far
I won't beat myself up too much if shit doesn't happen, I need to take care of my personal life too

sly hare
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Thnak you, mate

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meanwhile, it's bittersweet, I'm about to graduate and it's a hard cycle that while I wanna be done with it, I also know I will miss my good friends

sly hare
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School also gives people a pretty strong feeling of stability with its repetition, it was really hard dealing with the weird aimless feeling after I dropped out even while I still had goals and hiking

nova nova
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I wrote a brief thank you for all my friends on the acknowledgements section of my monograph (whatever you call that final project you need to do to graduate) cause they made it easier and more fun

nova nova
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I mean, I had a hard time adjusting after I started doing less hours of class, I can't imagine what it will feel like when I'm done or like you, who dropped out

sly hare
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yeah 😭 it definitely takes a while to get used to

nova nova
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February progress
iNaturalist progress
Found out the hard way that there is a limit of pages you can access on the identify tab on iNat
I am currently at:
776 IDS
1037 annotations
Broad academic goals
-I did the summer course I enrolled in and it was better than I expected, one week of really chill classes about an important topic! Now I only have one more credit left of optional hours!
-I've enrolled myself on the remaining classes I need to wrap up my bachellor's. Now I need to wait a bit to see if I'll get into those classes (it shouldn't be an issue, but I'll wait and see). If it goes well I graduate in July.
-Next month I should be able to enroll myself on the classes I need for my lecturer's. Wish me luck, I'll need heaps of it if I wanna graduate in december.
Scientific goals
-Soooo, I misindentified one of the samples I recieved last month, so now we currently sit at 8 species of Conio in my state.
-I misindentified another one of my samples but good news! After some dissecting and microscopic examination we are fairly sure we have a new species!
Life history goals
-Only went out to collect one day (should have gone at least three times, ops), so not that well on this department.
-Yeah, I haven't done much this month, I haven't collected any neuropterans this month

sly hare
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but yeah, I'll at least have a degree until the end of the year

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But I got into all the ones I need for my bachellors

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I really wanna do a funny thing and name a new species after Sam O'nella, but I don't think they'll let me lol