Identifying plants in insect/plant interactions when insect is already ID'ed

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Does anyone have suggestions for how to move forward on plant identification (getting the Suggested ID to focus on a plant in a picture) when there is an already-identified insect in the photo? I am trying to tag a bunch of plant-insect interactions of a specific species of insect in a certain geographical range. My plant ID is ok, but having some of the AI powered identification would help. As an example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/346360855

the insect is already identified and the suggested ID is not providing any suggestions for the plant. I realize I could download the picture/crop it and try other id tools, but is there an easier option?

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Maybe this extension would help?

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-enhancement-suite-chrome-extension/75349

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Thanks - I’ll give this a try. I’m trying the google lens ID - which will allow cropping within the image without having to download anything - but the algorithm is not as good as iNat’s

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You can click on “Compare” then change the source to “Visually similar” and the taxon to “flowering plants” or something along those lines.

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Compare and CV is quicker than Enhancement and crop. I must remember that.

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And enhancement and crop as so very useful as it is, doesn’t take location into account while compare and cv does. Sometimes that can matter.

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this is what I do (usually when the CV gets hung up on the wrong area of a genus) - works like a charm!