Ant mimic awards

Whenever someone posts on iNaturalist “I found this ant” but it’s an ant mimic I just feel so proud of the ant mimic. I think they should get a little award. Like there should be a little human-shaped icon next to their name with the count of how many times that species of spider, true bug, etc. has been ID’d as an ant by mistake.

I’m 2/3 of the way serious about this being a feature request. Don’t we want to know who the best ant-mimics are?

It makes me so happy to find these but now I need to learn about a bunch of spiders and true bugs so I can give better alternate IDs. Well, that’s how it goes I guess.

You can check out/join/add to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ant-mimics

I feel similarly when I see a bee fly that is especially mimic-y (some look more bee-like than others).

I missed this minicry thread but there are some good ant mimics shared in it.