I posted multiple observations of the same plant, both in flower and in fruit. The flower and fruit pictures were taken at different times. The guidelines say that I should post them as different observations. Having both fruits and flowers could strengthen usefulness of the observations, and als…

A clunky but simple way to link them is just to post all the links in the Description of each one. I think there’s a more elegant way to do it – someone will recall what that is.

I really like that the iNaturaist project “Hermit Crab Homes” will add an observation field to link a related observation. I’d been wondering if there was a project for duplicate observations (either over time, or same organism uploaded by different people) that would provide that observation field…

This is what I use, and it works very well! I’ve used it to link gall insect with host plant as well.

For your galls Tony has a project for that https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/interactions-linked Although this project was designed on iSpot for southern Africa, it is open to anyone. Please feel free to contribute.

A big thank you to those who suggested the solution. I have figured it out and will use it in the future.

Can you link different observations

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swampster August 20, 2023, 10:21pm 4

See this thread: Using the field “Similar Observation Set” for linking observations.

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Can you link different observations

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