Observations

The biggest difference between the original and the replicate is the actual plant. I did name the plant with the hope that whoever was going to attempt my methods would be able to find it. Future projects perhaps I will use a latitude and longitude plus a description of the plant not just the type of plant. Next glaring difference between the two is the size of the plants in the image. This may have been due to different cameras or the distance from the subject the picture was taken. I should have specified the distance from the subject the camera was held plus the type of camera that was used. The map sizes and subject area are also different. I suppose I could have described that in better detail too. The letters are different sized. The original was lower case while the replicate was upper case. I failed to mention this in my methods paper. The replicate is missing an arrow pointing at the area that the leafminer activity was observed. This was in the methods paper however it was overlooked for some reason. The font and color is the same for the image labels at least. The position of the dollar bill was not consistent between the original and replicate. This too was not clear in the paper describing how the images were selected. It is difficult to get someone to duplicate your pictures by simply describing how you did it. The paper had a lot of detail describing how the panel was made, but not enough detail about the where and how the images were produced. I think that a third set of eyes would have been beneficial to assist with the editing of the paper. The order that the panels were organized could have been better. After looking at it I think that it may have been better if I labeled the map as “a”, then the full plant as “b”, and the final close up as “C”. This would have given it a zooming in flow that would have been easier to describe. A better description of the positioning of the dollar bill would have eliminated the guesswork for that piece too. This was a great lesson on how much different individual perceptions really are.