Taxonomic Categories in Posts & Insect Record Keeping
I recently came across Beetles in the Bush, an excellent entomology blog written by Ted MacRae. I particularly liked the use of taxonomic post categories to organise families into their respective orders and will start using it in my blog because it’s such a good idea.
Earlier this week I finished organising my insect records from last year in Excel. I was thinking about putting them into Access because it’s much better suited for such data and I may start building an Access database over the weekend. Another thought occurred to me, which was that there must be some freely available programs, perhaps some which can make use of Google Maps/Earth and Flickr. Do you know of any?
Finally, a little bit of eye candy:
Red and Black Shield Bug - This pentatomid caught my eye amongst unidentified material collected in Ecuador. © The Natural History Museum
Tags: insect records, Photography, Taxonomy
Hi Lawrence – thanks for the shout. It’s an idea I came up with when I migrated my blog to WordPress a couple months ago. I was confused about the use of ‘categories’ versus ‘tags’ (my old blog host only used ‘labels’) – then it dawned on me that I could use the hierarchical capabilities of categories to arrange my posts by taxa and the tags based on other subjects.
regards–ted