What are everyone’s favorite resources for learning about and/or identifying organisms? My personal favorites for identification (other than iNaturalist itself of course) are Florida Plant Atlas and “Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida 3rd Edition” by Wunderlin and Hansen, but I don’t really kn…

Flora of North America ( http://floranorthamerica.org ) is my go-to for most plants except for those that I know have a more recent monograph or revision (e.g. Solanum). It’s a true gem that I sincerely hope they complete, and that they continue revising/updating afterward. Minnesota Wildflowers ( htt…

I love this website for seashells. It’s pretty much an exhaustive list of Florida bivalves and gastropods and almost always compares similar species. Other places may have detailed descriptions but they are usually just dry words. Annotated pictures are so much easier to interpret because speak for …

My most favourite favourite for spiders worldwide is The World spider catalogue … It requires that you at least have a slight idea on what group (family or even genus) an observation belongs to, but then it helps you out with complete list of species and in which countries you would find those… and…

Lots of great responses in this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/current-or-general-favorite-field-guides/656 There was a website on fly identification that I often found myself using to help with family-level identifications but it doesn’t seem to be up anymore, which is a real shame. How…

Wayne’s Word (not world) has a useful reference on “sea beans,” that is, seeds that drift on the ocean. Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits (waynesword.net) . That site in turn links to www.seabean.com - Sea-Beans and Drift Seeds .

Hmm, I often use Artfakta , which is the local species ID database, as well as Dyreliv i havet (Animal life in the sea) a book listing the species you can find while scuba diving (with photos, description and all the things you need for ID). I think it is the biggest encyclopaedia of marine animal sp…

My favourite resources are in German and mainly for Central Europe, but there is some overlap for the rest of Europe as well. It’s kerbtier for beetles and lepiforum for moths and butterflies. In kerbtier you can upload photos of beetles and the admin-team will identify them for you in a really sho…

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