In my area Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda Butterup) is everywhere. The whole county turns yellow in the spring. The O. pes-caprae is sprouting everywhere and starting to bloom. A few days ago I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood and take a photo of every yard just to show how thoroughly th…

I was just about to ask a similar question and saw your post. In general I think any observations are technically valid if either the individual, observation time, or location is different - so I’m pretty sure it’s fine rules-wise to do that (anyone correct me if I’m wrong). Whether it’s useful is …

it’s fine to add one from each yard, it just generates fine scale mapping of the population and yeah depending on what someone is looking for it could be useful. But conversely if you aren’t interested in spending the time doing it, it’s fine just to add one or two from the population

Should I create a project or some other “bucket” to contain the observations? I don’t really want a all the O. pes-caprae observations cluttering up my main observation collection. I have also considered making this study as one observation per block and covering a larger area.

Sounds like a great idea! The observations will appear in your general list of observations. irrespective of adding them to a project or not. If you want them to be excluded from your regular observations, you might wish to open a second account, for special projects like these. Second account - i …

[image] gheaton: e.g. is it useful to individually log every fish in a school of fish? In principle, yes. But it depends on what the “use” is: if you’re simply interested in presence, then there’s plenty redundancy in 10 observations of the same species at the same time at more or less the sa…

[image] mreith: i think its not against the rules in iNat (somebody correct me please in case there are restrictions) forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-it-acceptable-to-create-a-second-account-for-things-that-i-did-not-observe-myself/5558

@kenk just to clarify the guidelines. If you wish and have the patience to do so, you may enter each and every one of them as a separate record. And then you can go back again tomorrow and the next day and do it all over again if you want. You can go into a woodlot and submit every individual tree a…

[image] mreith: Second account - i think its not against the rules in iNat (somebody correct me please in case there are restrictions). Try not to verify your observations yourself though ;). Having 2 accounts on the site is only permitted for cases like where someone administers a group or l…

I think an observation should be valuable for research. If an organism is morphologically different from the rest of the patch, or it has succeeded in breaking off from the rest of the patch, then it is important to document it.

Posting these plants from every yard in your neighborhood gives an idea of just how dense the population is. That could be useful to future researchers. Go for it!

Etiquette for posting many observations of the same species

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