For me, once I started with a particular taxa, it was the things being misidentified as that taxa that caused me to expand my interests. So, I knew it wasn’t X, but what was this other Y? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571 gave me a tool to get a handle on looking for new threads to pull. I haven’t learned all of those yet, but I’ve learned a bunch of them, and it’s iterative, so with each new taxa learned, there’s learning what’s being misidentified as that one as well, so it’s very organic growth and helps to reinforce what I already know.
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