{ "model": { "rank": 5734, "code": "thing-q83931", "model_id": "vr.tr.locust", "name": "locust", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a locust, assess its life stage and phase-related behaviour, and decide what observation, containment or management action is justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q83931/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "kosher locust" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.locust", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q83931", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83931", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:09:31Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 13.2, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 95.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1f-cc7c-7f41-8a0e-8b6bbbc6d76e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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the individual.", "in_scope": [ "Identification as a grasshopper of a locust-forming species, with evidence and uncertainty", "Egg, hopper and adult development, including reproductive condition", "Observed crowding response, aggregation and phase-related traits", "Individual health, feeding, movement and immediate habitat use", "Membership in observed aggregations and constraints on handling or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Population dynamics and organisation of an entire hopper band or swarm", "Regional outbreak forecasting and migration models", "Crop condition, yield loss and farm economics", "Pesticide products, application equipment and treatment programmes", "Whole-habitat condition and ecosystem management", "Processed locust food, feed or commodity batches" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require evidence of a locust-forming grasshopper taxon; abundance or crop feeding alone does not distinguish a locust from another grasshopper.", "Check grasshopper morphology, including enlarged jumping hind legs and relatively short antennae, against likely cricket or katydid confusion, allowing for damage and life stage.", "Distinguish a wingless hopper from an adult using developmental characters appropriate to the identified species; winglessness alone is insufficient.", "Assess phase-related behaviour and morphology separately from identity: an isolated or solitary-phase individual can still belong to a locust-forming species.", "Distinguish evidence about one animal from evidence about a hopper band or swarm; a collective sighting does not establish every member's individual condition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Candidate taxon, identification confidence and supporting diagnostic evidence", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether locust identity is supported and which developmental and phase criteria apply." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Egg | hopper with instar if supported | adult | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Constrains mobility, identification methods and feasible observation or intervention." }, { "name": "Body length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with anatomical endpoints and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and developmental assessment without treating size alone as diagnostic." }, { "name": "Phase assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Solitarious | transitional | gregarious | unresolved, using taxon-specific evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of aggregation and movement while preserving uncertainty." }, { "name": "Observed behaviour", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Resting | feeding | jumping | walking | flying | mating | ovipositing | other observed behaviour", "why_it_matters": "Separates direct observations from inferred capabilities or intentions." }, { "name": "Local crowding", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Individuals per m² or nearest-neighbour distance in cm, with observation footprint and time", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for phase assessment and aggregation without equating density with phase." }, { "name": "Wing and locomotor condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Stage-appropriate wing development, visible damage and observed locomotor ability", "why_it_matters": "Constrains movement and handling decisions." }, { "name": "Reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sex and maturity if supported; mating or egg-laying evidence; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess breeding relevance without inferring reproductive readiness from adult appearance alone." }, { "name": "Feeding relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed food organism or material, plant part and evidence of consumption", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes actual feeding from simple presence on vegetation." }, { "name": "Aggregation membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked hopper band, swarm or other aggregation, with time and membership evidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects individual observations to collective assessment without duplicating the collective model." } ], "affordances": [ "Observe, photograph and identify it using stage-appropriate diagnostic evidence.", "Measure development, physical condition and local crowding with recorded methods.", "Record feeding and movement, and link observations to a band or swarm when supported.", "Capture, sample or temporarily contain it where authorised and methodologically justified.", "Report a suspected locust occurrence with location, time and identification confidence.", "Assess whether monitoring, specialist identification or a separate management process is warranted." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "locust-identity", "name": "Locust identity", "description": "Evidence that the observed organism belongs to a locust-forming grasshopper 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locust and evidence collected from a group or trace.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-evidence-boundary", "name": "Individual evidence boundary", "description": "Identify whether evidence concerns a living individual, specimen, egg or unresolved group observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern one distinguishable animal or egg, a specimen, or an observation that cannot resolve individuals?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "individual-evidence-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which photograph, specimen identifier or tracking evidence allows later observations to be attributed to this same individual?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-evidence-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-condition", "name": "Development and condition", "description": "Developmental stage, reproductive evidence and physical capacity.", "rationale": "Eggs, hoppers and adults require different interpretation and support different actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-status", "name": "Developmental status", "description": "Evidence of stage, moulting and reproductive development.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-maturity", "name": "Stage and maturity", "description": "Record stage and maturity only to the resolution supported by species-specific observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which characters establish egg, hopper or adult status, and can a hopper instar be assigned reliably?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-maturity-q01" }, { "text": "What direct evidence supports sex, reproductive maturity, recent moulting or egg-laying?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-maturity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-capacity", "name": "Physical capacity", "description": "Observable condition affecting survival, movement and handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "locomotion-and-impairment", "name": "Locomotion and impairment", "description": "Separate stage-appropriate limitations from injury or unexplained impairment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What movement has been observed, and what wing or leg damage could constrain it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "locomotion-and-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Do inactivity or abnormal movements require repeat observation, specialist assessment or a change in handling?", "kind": "action", "id": "locomotion-and-impairment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "phase-and-aggregation", "name": "Phase and aggregation", "description": "Phase-related evidence and the individual's relationship to nearby locusts.", "rationale": "Phase expression is central to locust assessment but must not be inferred from a single generic visual cue.", "layers": [ { "id": "phase-expression", "name": "Phase expression", "description": "Taxon- and stage-specific interpretation of behavioural and morphological evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-evidence-profile", "name": "Phase evidence profile", "description": "Retain separate observations and their timing before assigning a phase interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which behavioural, colour or morphological observations support a phase assessment for this taxon and stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phase-evidence-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify a phase label, indicate transition, or leave phase unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phase-evidence-profile-q02" }, { "text": "What observation history documents crowding or isolation rather than merely assuming it from the present location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "phase-evidence-profile-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-association", "name": "Collective association", "description": "Local density, coordinated movement and links to a separately modelled collective.", "findings": [ { "id": "band-or-swarm-link", "name": "Band or swarm link", "description": "Record the evidence connecting this individual to a hopper band, swarm or other aggregation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What local density and coordinated walking or flight were observed, over what area and interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "band-or-swarm-link-q01" }, { "text": "Which collective record should own group extent, abundance and direction, and what supports linking this individual to it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "band-or-swarm-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-habitat-use", "name": "Feeding and habitat use", "description": "Direct interactions with vegetation, ground conditions and immediate surroundings.", "rationale": "Presence alone does not demonstrate crop consumption, breeding or habitat suitability.", "layers": [ { "id": "feeding-evidence", "name": "Feeding evidence", "description": "Observed consumption and its relationship to nearby plant damage.", "findings": [ { "id": "confirmed-food-use", "name": "Confirmed food use", "description": "Connect feeding observations to identified food and distinguish them from inferred damage attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plant or other material and which part were directly observed being consumed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "confirmed-food-use-q01" }, { "text": "Is nearby damage attributable to this observed feeding, or does attribution require a separate crop or population assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "confirmed-food-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "microhabitat-and-breeding", "name": "Microhabitat and breeding", "description": "Immediate habitat use and evidence of reproduction at the observation site.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-use-evidence", "name": "Site use evidence", "description": "Distinguish transit, resting, feeding and breeding using observed behaviour and site conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when was the locust observed, and what substrate, vegetation and temperature accompanied its activity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-use-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Was egg-laying or an associated egg pod observed, or is breeding-site use only suspected?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "site-use-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-intervention", "name": "Observation and intervention", "description": "Decisions about identification, reporting, sampling, containment and referral for management.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence-based next actions that respect identification uncertainty and the limits of an individual record.", "layers": [ { "id": "evidence-acquisition", "name": "Evidence acquisition", "description": "Choose the next observation or sample needed to resolve a consequential uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "targeted-identification-and-sampling", "name": "Targeted identification and sampling", "description": "Match observation or collection methods to the missing diagnostic evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which additional view, measurement or expert examination would resolve the most consequential uncertainty about taxon, stage or phase?", "kind": "action", "id": "targeted-identification-and-sampling-q01" }, { "text": "If capture or sampling is needed, what authorised protocol preserves diagnostic features and records collection context?", "kind": "action", "id": "targeted-identification-and-sampling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "management-decision-interface", "name": "Management decision interface", "description": "Connect the individual record to applicable reporting and management processes.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-response", "name": "Justified response", "description": "Record the grounds for monitoring, reporting, containment or referral without prescribing a population treatment from one sighting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Given identification confidence, location and aggregation evidence, which applicable reporting or monitoring procedure should be followed?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-response-q01" }, { "text": "What additional population evidence and local authority are required before a control decision can be made?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "justified-response-q02" }, { "text": "If the locust is held, what verified containment and disposition procedure applies to its taxon and collection location?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-response-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend locust to cover all locust-forming grasshopper taxa, and which taxonomic authority should determine that coverage?", "Which validated phase indicators apply to each covered taxon and life stage, and how should conflicting behavioural and morphological evidence be represented?", "How should unresolved eggs and egg pods link to individual locust records without implying unsupported identification or individual continuity?", "Which neighbouring registry models own hopper bands, swarms and outbreaks, and what evidence is sufficient to establish membership?", "Which jurisdiction-specific reporting, collection, containment and management protocols must an agent consult before acting?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "kosher locust" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one locust from another, and a locust from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a locust sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a locust from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a locust is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a locust and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { 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"description": "Where a locust is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a locust is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a locust moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a locust passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a locust between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a locust, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a locust is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What locust is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of locust, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate locust from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish locust from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What locust does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does locust pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of locust judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where locust lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of locust, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does locust hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a locust came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a locust and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a locust is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a locust, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a locust, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a locust is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }