Expansion of Project Area & Project Name Change
As of this morning, Caterpillars of the Eastern US is now Caterpillars of Eastern North America. I have expanded the project parameters to include Canada's eastern provinces, which is more in line with my original intent (see discussion here). I will also be adding eastern Mexico sometime in the next few weeks.
We will need to work through the backlog of past observations for these provinces as we originally did for each of the project states, and I propose that we work at it in the same way, with people volunteering to work through all observations of Lepidoptera for individual provinces. To aid in this process, I will create and post below links to Identify pages, filtered for each province. If you claim a province, please post a comment stating your intention, review all Lepidoptera observations, and add to the project (as well as adding the "life stage = larva" annotation) any which feature a caterpillar. For tent caterpillars & webworms, please only add those observations in which at least one caterpillar can be clearly made out as an individual & at a scale at which it is potentially identifiable (at least to genus); for bagworms, please only include observations in which the caterpillar is outside, or visible protruding from, the pupal case. More discussion on these finer points here, starting on the fourth comment down.
Welcome to the project, Canada! We look forward to meeting your caterpillars.
