Let’s start a movement! Every Friday, aim to make identifications (or improve your existing identifications) on at least 5 observations. For an extra challenge, make sure at least one of those identifications incorporates some aspect that is new for you – a taxon you’ve never identified before, an …

I went back to my pet project of european pisaurids for a while… did not do it for the winter months and now there were almost 2000 new needs ID… should not leave it unattented for too long :wink: The Argiope on the other hand seem to be well evaluated without me now and I feel less pressured to w…

[image] ajott: The Argiope on the other hand seem to be well evaluated without me now and I feel less pressured to work on them at the moment… I just do them every once in a while now - mostly agreeing to suggestions other ArgiopeIDers have made before me. i love to hear this sort of thing

tiwane has written a new Help - if you want to lure in new identifiers to help us. https://inaturalist.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/151000185912-how-to-refine-observations-stuck-at-a-high-taxonomic-level

I went to a plant sale last Saturday and got an aspidistra. That sent me down a rabbit hole of reading papers on the genus, which ended up with me doing a sweep of “Needs ID” Aspidistra elatior observations. Most were not aspidistra. At least one was not even a monocot! The three taxa most often id…

How is this for #IdentiFriday? (It’s my own observation, linking on purpose for the thread). Paper out yesterday, a lovely curator added it today, so our lab got all our observations ID’d correctly on here now. New genus & species. Link to paper (open access) https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/…

Good idea. I don’t do your “love bombing,” exactly, but I frequently try to reciprocate. When someone IDs a bunch of my OBs, I get curious and check their profile to see who they are, where they are, what they observe, and whether I can ID anything of theirs. Sometimes I can help. Often not. I will…

Not a huge deal, but I finished a big identification goal of mine which was reviewing every single Atocion observations (the more than 4500 of them)! [IMG_9628]

That’s fantastic! Do you know what you’ll tackle next, or are you going to reward yourself by making XX number of observations next?

Thanks! I think I’ll take a break from plants (oddly enough, they’re not my main area of focus). I’ve still been going around the Caribbean identifying herps, so I think I’ll continue that! I’ve already finished the Bahamas, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, and Cayman Islands. There are a bunch of observa…

[image] rinaturalist: I’ve still been going around the Caribbean identifying herps Those Haitian/Dominican anoles are a mess ever since the common bark anole was split.

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