Acknowledgements
We thank the many iNaturalist users who are recording and identifying insect biodiversity. We also thank those who have collected, curated, and digitized insect specimen records. MWB was partially supported by a University of Florida Biodiversity Institute (UFBI) fellowship. CJ Campbell provided valuable feedback. No direct funding supported this study, but MWB, EAL, and RPG developed phenological tools and concepts used in this study that were supported by the National Science Foundation DEB # 1703048 and DEB # 1702664.
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