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 …

You can’t change an opted-out Unknown with 1 ID, but a total of 2 IDs of any ID level will bounce that Unknown automatically to Casual without having to add any DQA flags! Then they can stay filed there until the person comes back to update.

[image] lynnharper: So what URL are you using? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&iconic_taxa=unknown I was using this one but https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=unknown&place_id=any&quality_grade=needs_id seems to be more useful. (I did not …

I use 2 separate urls. For just Unknowns including my reviewed, I see 2.589e5 (judging by page count) from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&order=asc&without_taxon_id=48460%2C1126112%2C67333%2C131236%2C151817%2C48222 (I just like to scr…

Oh, interesting! I did not know that - thanks, @lotteryd !

Not an endangered species (I think), but this got the botanists all excited: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147297228

I’ve been reviewing 2 separate groups in the last week. The first is succulent monocots in the Asparagus family in the southwest USA - sorting high level observations to genus (Agave, Hesperaloe, Nolina, Sotol, or Yucca) - and the second is Diadasia bees in North America - sorting to subgenus or com…

I saw some of my bees come up. Thanks!

Do Diadasia need dissection to get to species? Or could I catch one and just refrigerate it to make it hold still for macro photos?

My IDs range across all the taxon levels. I will push to limits of my knowledge, and of my @mentions. I’m with you on - it’s a fern.

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lynnharper February 3, 2023, 3:54pm 733

Fascinating that there are different numbers with different URLs.

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