<![CDATA[If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection.]]>If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection.

You might think:

waspworld.com/25-types-of-carpenter-ants-identification-with-picture

Sounds like a decent source (who would spread misinformation about ants?) But, it's just another error riddled page that will make people feel hopeless about identifying insects.

Anyway. I know many people will look at this and not be able to tell how wrong it is.

Two real stinkers:

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/106bb5e5-5cbd-4acd-8723-b9146c4d12bb/if-you-need-to-identify-insects-please-use-inaturalist-wikipedia-antwiki-bugguide.net-or-@alexwild-s-photo-collection.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 00:21:50 GMTWed, 29 Apr 2026 10:47:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:12:23 GMT]]>@futurebird they’re not lies, they’re ANTi-truths 💁‍♀️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/itgrrl/statuses/116488401272280967https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/itgrrl/statuses/116488401272280967Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:12:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:54:35 GMT]]>@futurebird

""waspworld.com" could be such a fun site. It should be sized by the government and given to me. "

I support this proposal. Do you want us to write our senators on your behalf?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/Mikal/statuses/116488331327089128https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/Mikal/statuses/116488331327089128Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:54:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:08:44 GMT]]>@futurebird Most likely the site's actual purpose is catching search results and showing ads. Feels like 75% of the internet is like that lately.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/jasper/statuses/116488150999849231https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/jasper/statuses/116488150999849231Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:08:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:06:48 GMT]]>@futurebird

This is making me antsy

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/saucerlost/statuses/116488143427416251https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/saucerlost/statuses/116488143427416251Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:06:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:55:55 GMT]]>@amberfirefly What a fun game! Thanks for bringing it up. @futurebird

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/ap/users/116239958350420687/statuses/116488100592528649https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/ap/users/116239958350420687/statuses/116488100592528649Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:55:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:28:23 GMT]]>@futurebird @alexwild After having spent time at two separate search engines, including a couple year stint in the QA/spam detection department of one of them, I am completely unsurprised. It's all ad scamming and pagerank farming, and deeply annoying.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116487992354355748https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116487992354355748Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:28:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:26:19 GMT]]>@ben @futurebird @admin the fucking spam sites have been around a lot longer than folks even begin to comprehend.

The biggest reason I quit blogging was because from 2010 or so, every single one of my posts was within days stolen by SEO scamming operations in India, halfass copy-pasted to a dozen blogspots running ads mixed in with thousands of other often unrelated posts. When I identified and blocked them, they switched to using open proxies.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weird.autos/users/rootwyrm/statuses/116487984224917601https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weird.autos/users/rootwyrm/statuses/116487984224917601Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:26:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:06:19 GMT]]>@futurebird @admin blogs used to be a good source of information because only super-nerds had blogs and super-nerds generally care about the thing they're writing about

but now that the barrier to entry to having a blog no longer contains "willing to write blog posts" they're mostly spam sites unfortunately

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.lubar.me/users/ben/statuses/116487905585868968https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.lubar.me/users/ben/statuses/116487905585868968Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:06:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:05:58 GMT]]>@ehproque @admin

And you can find them and tell them they are wrong.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487904169888459https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487904169888459Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:05:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:03:39 GMT]]>@futurebird @admin the problem is, even if there are people pretending to be authorities and making up something they half understood from reading elsewhere (of course there are!), there's only so much garbage they can produce in a given day…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/ehproque/statuses/116487895066199203https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/ehproque/statuses/116487895066199203Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:03:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:59 GMT]]>@admin

It presents itself with authority, like an encyclopedia, and yet the information is simply wrong. A person who sees a carpenter in their home who attempts to use that page to identify the species will never ever get the correct answe. They will probably assume this is because they don’t know enough about insects when in fact, they are just being farmed by advertisers again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487884571228627https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487884571228627Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:38 GMT]]>@admin

I sometimes think speculating if something is AI-generated can be a bit of a trap. I think you are correct that entire site was probably generated using one of those AI WordPress bridges.

But how it was made doesn’t really matter since every single page contains foundational errors. It fails to accomplish the site’s apparent purpose eg. helping people identify insects.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487883224259797https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487883224259797Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:57:05 GMT]]>@futurebird @jmax

This blew my mind the other day,

That some wasps decided probably by nature,

To stop flying.

Imagine being able to fly and choosing the ground instead.

Also, they can communicate!

Watched ants form a pile the other day and so naturally looked heavily into ants.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rythur/statuses/116487869300525418https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rythur/statuses/116487869300525418Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:57:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:55:35 GMT]]>@futurebird there are swarms of ants in it actually, now I think about it, as one of the bad things that happen to the wasps... we made it quite a long time ago now but it was one of my favourite projects 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/amberfirefly/statuses/116487863356246969https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/amberfirefly/statuses/116487863356246969Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:52:31 GMT]]>@amberfirefly

The government has sent several ants to monitor your goings on. Be alert and very careful!

(It’s a really neat game! I’m going to add it to my list of ant simulations to review this summer.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487851291796142https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487851291796142Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:52:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:51:19 GMT]]>@admin @futurebird Lithuan-IA ? the name of the country itself is suspect 😁 /j

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/TofuTheSquirrel/statuses/116487846564171543https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/TofuTheSquirrel/statuses/116487846564171543Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:51:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:50:45 GMT]]>@futurebird

i will do the zine and public apology* for free!

* i regret nothing!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116487844355062077https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116487844355062077Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:50:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:49:15 GMT]]>@futurebird (Somewhere in the back of my brain, I actually knew that. Why that datum didn't factor into my smartass crack is unclear.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmax/statuses/116487838443193204https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmax/statuses/116487838443193204Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:49:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:47:15 GMT]]>@futurebird Oh. Hmm. I'm going to have to have a talk with that mysterious trench coated stranger.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmax/statuses/116487830598212983https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmax/statuses/116487830598212983Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:47:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:46:11 GMT]]>@admin @futurebird I've recently found through origami that the old pages with a ton of keywords for SEO have been replaced with a ton of "blogs" that make you waste a few minutes before realising that it's all plausible word salad

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/ehproque/statuses/116487826403472664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/ehproque/statuses/116487826403472664Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:46:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:42:30 GMT]]>@futurebird
I donated $50 to Wikipedia yesterday.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/stevewfolds/statuses/116487811930157515https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/stevewfolds/statuses/116487811930157515Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:42:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:40:23 GMT]]>@futurebird I wonder if it's AI...the site has existed for less than a year (registered from Lithuania?), they post like four blog articles a day all allegedly written by one guy (and it's been several per day since it started)...

I think it's a (pretty bad) SEO scam to get Amazon affiliate revenue. The page with affiliate links to bug killers seemed potentially legit, but then I found one selling and reviewing MATTRESS COVERS...
https://waspworld.com/best-mattress-cover-for-queen-size-bed/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com/users/admin/statuses/116487803612743635https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com/users/admin/statuses/116487803612743635Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:40:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:38:01 GMT]]>@jmax

Ants are wasps. There is no clade you could name that won’t contain both.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487794267488316https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116487794267488316Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:38:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you need to identify insects please use inaturalist, wikipedia, antwiki, bugguide.net or @alexwild's photo collection. on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:33:07 GMT]]>@futurebird When you have lied about everything else, all that is left to lie about are ANTS.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aadeacon/statuses/116487775000576158https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aadeacon/statuses/116487775000576158Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:33:07 GMT