I've seen plant identification groups, and the thing is that a blurry picture of half the thing is not conducive to accurate identification.
When these are correctly identified, it's often because the person has a particular investment in that exact plant. So if the expert on irises or two-stripe bumblebees is offline at the moment you might get crickets, or wild-ass guesses.
There is something about video that makes it easier to identify things. The object feels more three dimensional, I suspect, which makes it closer to field identification.
That said, we use camera 'traps' for very shy mammal species. I wonder if we could tune those systems for bees. (A fox or cloud leopard might run if the camera gears make noise, but do bees give a damn?)
When these are correctly identified, it's often because the person has a particular investment in that exact plant. So if the expert on irises or two-stripe bumblebees is offline at the moment you might get crickets, or wild-ass guesses.
There is something about video that makes it easier to identify things. The object feels more three dimensional, I suspect, which makes it closer to field identification.
That said, we use camera 'traps' for very shy mammal species. I wonder if we could tune those systems for bees. (A fox or cloud leopard might run if the camera gears make noise, but do bees give a damn?)