For my first observation I uploaded two separate photos of the one insect, I’m grateful to the people who identified it for me. I was asked to ‘combine the other observation of this insect into this observation’. I’d be grateful if someone could let me know where I could discover how to do this.

There are tips for combing your observations here: How to turn multiple observations into a single observation .

honestly, i would just worry about it for future observations. when you are creating your observation(s), you can add multiple photos (and/or sounds) of the same organism to the same observation rather than creating separate observations for separate photos of the same organism. how you go about thi…

How did you upload the observations? The exact instructions may be a little different based on whether you used iPhone, Android, or the website. I don’t think there is an equivalent to a merge button after upload in any of the these. You can add the photo from the 2nd observation to the one that ha…

Welcome to iNaturalist and the Forum @parlance It looks to me like the observation that you are talking about was uploaded via the computer. At least one of your observations was uploaded via your iphone (it says this at the end of the iphone observation). Different interfaces have different ways …

@whitneybrook gave the answer I was going to give.

Pisum, thanks. I’ll relax about it and just hope to do better in future.

whitneybrook, that should be doable. I’ll have a try.

bobmcd, thanks for the welcome. I feel sure I’ll get my head around things gradually.

swampster, I’ve bookmarked that link and I’m going to read it now.

[image] pisum: honestly, i would just worry about it for future observations. On this particular observation, its not super important that you merge the observations, although I would still suggest that you do so. However, in some cases, multiple observations of the same individual can be det…

Do you really suggest a person to leave duplicates and “do better next time”? We have to fight against duplicates each day, don’t just leave them when you know they’re there. Of course it matters as much with first or 100th observation, there’s nothing hard for a new user to delete one observation a…

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bobmcd January 8, 2023, 2:37pm 14

You are correct. I was focused on being welcoming and taking a shortcut by not finding the answer @swampster gave.

Merge existing duplicate observations *and* the identifications and comments on each

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