Gallery: Crowdsourced citizen science with the bugs of Iberia

Yesterday, as we were working on an article about how photo sharing sites can help scientists do their work, we stumbled across a link to a Flickr group with a title that, at first glance, doesn't exactly suggest excitement and beauty: Heteroptera from the Iberian Peninsula. At second glance, things looked even worse, given that heteroptera are more commonly known as the "true bugs." Yet a quick glance at the page revealed photos that are simply stunning. So we thought we'd share them with you.

And remember, as our other article discusses, these aren't just pretty images. The metadata and location information that Flickr can store can make each of these images a valuable resource for people tracking rare and invasive species.

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