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Catmint20906 said:
I think what we could do here is unique and does *not* seek to duplicate resources that other sites are better equipped to provide. Following on Asa's excellent point about the interrelatedness of plants and bugs/pollinators, the database we could create could highlight that--eg, as Asa said, the parent (?) roses page could provide links to aphids and rose sawfly larvae, and the milkweed database to Monarchs and Queens, depending on the species. And so on. Bugs and pollinators are a fact of life for gardeners and not an unnecessary interloper whose subject matter only belongs properly on someone else's site.

So, I really like the idea of finding a way to provide links in the plant database to pollinators and other bugs that could serve as an extremely useful tool *for gardeners* (not for entomologists or lepidopterists).

YES
I really think we could do some amazing, unique, and incredibly useful things here.
The potential is grand--it may be a bit bumpy getting to the point of tapping into it though


Cripes--I am really sorry that I polluted "my own" thread with my own brazen opinions about the thing and that I'm apparently not done yet...

Catmint20906 said:
However, I think this thread (since we are being purists about threads) is about how we represent pollinators and other bugs in the database, and not about thumbs per se. Perhaps the 'thumb' issue would be best handled by starting a thread in the 'site talk' forum? It is really a site issue and not a pollinator/bug issue.

Because of the issue with "bug pics" getting thumbs and becoming the main thumbnail for a plant and that being undesirable for many people, the thumb issue is very much a part of the if and how questions regarding representing pollinators and other bugs in the database, now.
The Plant Database Forum was a fine place for the original thread...
and this one is here, sobeit, at least some of the ideas are not lost...
I still think that the ideas/issues involved here might be more fitting for the Site Talk Forum, now, but whatever...