Noooo! Don’t cut back! What would we do without your expertise? 
Now that I have that fit of selfishness out of the way, I can acknowledge that your health is the first priority. I’m just grateful for the information you have so kindly shared with me in the past few years.
My job involves working in many different habitats performing conservation, restoration, and ecological monitoring. iNaturalist has definitely trained me to notice things I wouldn’t have before I joined, and helped me to learn so many species I likely never could’ve on my own.
Unfortunately, this means I’ve also had to train my brain to let things go and not obsess so I can actually get my work done. It’s always bittersweet knowing I saw something cool but I couldn’t get a picture because I left my camera or my net in the truck…
They are fantastic sources of various carrion consuming critters. Flies, maggots, beetles. I posted four kinds of carrion beetles on 6/13/24. I usually don’t do anything else with the road kill, unless it’s in the road in front of my house. I will use a flat shovel to scoop it onto the roadside several feet off, into the road easement.
When planning my annual holiday, I look at my observation on iNaturalist - find the gaps, and plan a trip to cover some of those gaps. It works!
Yes, nothing should be done with the carcasses in the forest/buffer areas as they are food sources of others. Not only roadkills but also for dead bird chicks fallen from nest etc. But my intention was not to know what do anybody do with the carcasses. Intention was to know what do anybody do after observing and photographing such objects.
Yes, there are many persons everywhere in this world who spend their time and changed their behavior knowing such issues. How come such projects are being planned and constructed if they all ignore these roadkill issues as a very common problem in the area despite regular and numerous precedents? Are we interested to know detail about those initiatives? A link referred here got only 3 clicks ( two excluding mine or may be one excluding twice by me).
PS: I couldn’t find any instances in this thread which suggests we have changed our behavior for the safety/welfare of Wild Animals. Hence, created a post What could we give the Wild Animals back or could do for them?, which has also proved to be an un-interesting topic.
I’ve almost completely eliminated Twitter from my life, and I thank iNat for that blessing! I have an urge to “check” things on my phone, and before I had iNat to look at it was usually Twitter. Which was bad enough before the recent changes to it; now, it’s pretty much intolerable. These days, I find myself opening iNat the second I unlock my phone, instead of doom-scrolling.
It’s definitely made my phone’s camera roll a lot harder to navigate, though. I really ought to delete all the random bug and plant pictures I take every time I leave the house but… what if I need them again? (My camera roll is currently at like 12,000 pictures. Please send help.)
There are few threads on herping ethics (flipping rocks)
Try the Ethics section in the forum ?
Sorry, I could not understand and relate any of my comments in this thread regarding the above matter. Wherefrom this matter came? I won’t like to make any comment on this matter.
I decided not to make any comment on any matter being discussed here after that. Came back to pay my respects and gratitude to iNat after feeling honored by a ‘Regular’ Badge.
I was referring your link https://www.capetowngreenmap.co.za/20-green-news/1230-western-leopard-toad-underpass-project-at-zeekoevlei-nature-reserve regarding the commendable Western Leopard Toad Underpass Project to protect animals from being hit by cars.
An Excerpt:
The City of Cape Town partnered with Nature Connect, an environmental education organisation, to support the Western Leopard Toad Underpass Project. Nature Connect initiated this special project and has installed six underpass tunnels along Peninsula Road that bisects the City’s False Bay Nature Reserve.
These tunnels are intended to assist the Endangered Western Leopard Toad to pass under the road and avoid being hit by cars, especially during their breeding season which is currently under way.
I don’t understand how the issue of protecting Wildlife from being hit by Cars is related to another topic which has no relation to it? I’m a little hurt in that.
I Apologize for any comment made by me in this thread which may be considered as gone ‘beyond the Ethics Section of the Forum’
For users who joined iNat because they already cared about wildlife/nature and preserving the natural world, participation in iNat will hardly have radically altered that. I believe @DianaStuder mentioned the threads about ethical herping because they are examples of how people are considering the potential impact of their actions/behaviors (flipping logs) on the welfare of the animals affected.
There probably isn’t a lot that most of us can do to help wildlife/promote biodiversity through direct everyday actions (apart from e.g., things like changing our gardening practices, but you have already made it clear that you are not particularly interested in urban nature or small organisms like insects). For me in urban central Europe, truly wild spaces are far away. Apart from some few local initiatives, most things that I can do that would have a meaningful impact are lifestyle choices and donating to organizations that are involved with nature protection and sustainable development projects. None of this directly relates to my activities on iNat.
I’m in rural Appalachia. When a deer was hit right in front of our home, I really wanted to observe insect interaction with the carcass. It was too big to move. Needless to say, the local pickup crew was NOT thrilled to be called to remove after if was swarming with maggots. But it was AMAZING to see.
I found a rare fly on a Blue Jay that was hit by a car. I saw it happen and noticed these dazed flies crawling on the feathers, so scooped them up to photograph. I later learned they are almost never observed because they only live on live birds.
Great topic. The easiest way for me to regularly photograph insects is below my porch lights. So when I started my yard survey in 2020, I’d check the porch lights a few times before I went to bed. Now I check them any time of night I happen to get up. I can’t imagine what my neighbors think about the crazy person in her robe with a giant macro lens at 2:30am. “Crazy Bug Lady” is my best guess. 
I’m at 2200+ species in my yard, the majority photographed under the porch lights. (But not all in my PJs.)
My husband nowadays is always looking out for a bug that he can tell me about, because he is so happy when he finds a bug that I am impressed with.
I take my cell phone with me wherever I go and always try to make sure there is enough charge on it, or if not, I also take a power pack and a charging cord.
Thankfully my husband and I are on the same page when hiking! Would be super frustrating for anyone else as we constantly stop to look at a flower / fungus / bug / tree. So, iNat has only enhanced what was already there!
Same here. Which is a bit funny, because this is probably the only way in which being an iNatter moves me closer to the average person’s behaviour!
No point in me going hiking with hikers since I discovered I can find out what things are on iNat. I stop so often I’m always walking alone. At home I’m obsessed with finding out what I have found using iNat.
Good question! First I thought: no, I have always taken photos of animals and other interesting organisms. But thinking thoroughly: now, that I have to keep up my streak I have to go out every day, which I didn’t do before.
Last night there was an incident which showed me, how my behaviour has changed. There was a cockroach in my living-room! They are about the only animals I detest. First I just wanted to squish it, then I remembered I haven’t got one on my at-home-list. So I caught it in a glass and took a photo of it on the dustpan, before I chucked it out of the window.
That is great description of what I do as well.
I answered your question of what is done after photographing… I post the observations on iNat.