and I have learnt to zee - thanks to tiwane. Altho with my internet connection, it is usually quicker to get a zoomable photo if I open in a new tab.
@arboretum_amy I am used to ‘reading American’ then I had to concentrate really hard to understand it when spoken. Divided by a common language.
The power of getting an observation in frotn of the right set of eyes 
This week I strayed a bit from Tigrosa, but not too far.. I went down some Hogna antelucana (often confused with Tigrosa) and Gladicosa rabbit hole and today I found yet another one when poking a bit into Hogna frondicola.. lot’s of corrections to make, But for the rest of my evening I’ll stick with sending some familiy level lycosidae to species or at least genus if I can
We have 2 more days. But Coffs Harbor is the clear winner on sp count 2551 (second place is way behind with 2K)
Umbrella project at 45% RG
Southern Africa 44%
Cape Town 57%
Coffs Harbour an impressive 60% !
Pass the baton. First obs in Mozambique !
900 conchylodes in the past month or so :)
I should really familiarize myself with local lepidoptera but neotropics always come first
Great Southern Bioblitz 47% RG
[rant mode]
Dear Observer,
If you take a photo of a clearly IDable plant next to an unclassifiable pile of poop without any guidance about what the target of the photo is, don’t be surprised when it sits in Limbo for three months. Don’t be annoyed when someone finally comes along, IDs the plant to species, and declares that they (me) have no idea about the poop.
Yes, scats can be useful tools to tell what’s in the area, but only when they have sufficient detail to indicate at least what order of critter it came from. Otherwise, it’s just a pile of poop, and this is not the website for that.
[/rant]
Thank you for your forbearance. At least I have a ready antidote: the half-starved, orphaned baby tortoiseshell kitten who wandered into our yard has flourished on a steady diet of kitten formula and human affection, and is just about ready to go to foster. 
This weekend I got sidetracked quite a bit from my Tigrosa quest..
I went back to India and Asia and got sucked back into those beautyful web building lycosids Hippasa, that need quite a bit of work… I dug deep into it and ran into some interesting observations that still need a final resolution, but at least they are not in the wrong species pool anymore…
I am on a forced break that sent me back to north american lycosids now, as I need to wait for a species being added, so I can ID it 
It’s taken me three years of identifying on and off during the off-season, but I finally caught up on Hylodesmum species of the US and Canada and I’m finally in maintenance mode! There’s only three species north of Mexico, but many observations are are exclusively a closeup of a flower- and of course the leaves are needed to distinguish them. The CV wasn’t particularly helpful when I got started, and misidentifications were pretty rampant even when the proper leaf characters were present. However! Partway through my friend figured out that the flowers (and fruits!) are actually super distinct among the three, so once we got that hammered out it was smooth sailing. I corrected or confirmed 17,499 observations of the 23,748 in the region, and right now about 89% of the 23k are RG. So that’s pretty neat!
I’m sure more observations will keep trickling in this winter, especially as users catch up on upload backlogs and identifiers (including myself) comb through similar genera like Desmodium and broader family/tribe/etc IDs. But it’s really great to finally be caught up on something- at least for now!
89% RG is an a maz ing achievement. Congratulations !!
I know it is not Identify Friday but… I just got done reviewing all non research grade obs at subphylum and above in my county next step state? Probably not, I’ll probably see if I can push past subphylum at all.
When I started (a while back) there were over 100 pages for me to go through. While I wasn’t able to help a lot of them I was able to annotate and move some down to IDs.
Special shoutout to @PeaKayTea and @Egordon88 Y’all do a lot of ID work.
The ID work is worth it when people like you come along and narrow the IDs. Thanks for all the lessons!
Very excited for the ID-a-thon! Hope it results in some new identifiers. And also help current identifiers to understand the system better.
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/id-a-thon
I’m excited, too! I should think about setting a goal or two for myself. Maybe learn how to ID a new species or three?
I just thought the same.. I want to set a personal goal… Maybe getting one or two more species in the CV. Just need to check which ones are feasable
Curious to see what weekly targets they offer us. And we should get elegant feedback from iNat. We asked you to … and … (you did ?!)
That’s a really good idea to push species into the CV! I bet I don’t know enough to do that, though (I mostly ID really common species). I was thinking of learning species I sort of know, but have to look up every time - Creeping Snowberry vs. Twinflower, for example. One has opposite leaves; the other is alternate, and I never remember which is which.
For the ID addicts. Another 21K to play with
I will work my way thru the African ones.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270/118
and the most recent comments on that thread
This URL really makes me wish for a filter out users who have opted out of the community taxon. One prolific observer (>6,000 observations) has a blanket opt-out (in addition to many other users with fewer observations).
A lot of mine are also from well-intentioned identifiers marking the ID “as good as it can be” prematurely (without a third person agreeing either level). But at least these are fixable, as opposed to most of the opt-outs. It would be nice if that vote weren’t an option until the required there are at least 2 agreeing at the same level were reached (like how evidence related to a single subject is only an option if there are 2 or more photos), but maybe there’s a drawback to that I’m not thinking of.
global Opt Out makes my hackles rise - have had a few too.
Newbies interpret Good as Can Be as, I tried my very bestest!