iNat Milestones

Ooh, ouch! My only sting so far was from a yellowjacket that flew into the leg of my jeans and nailed me on the ankle. I hope that you didn’t find out that you’re allergic the hard way (like I did). :adhesive_bandage:

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It took iNaturalist 14 years to reach 100 million and just 2 more years to reach 200 million.

https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/97048-200-000-000-observations-on-inaturalist

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So we’ll hit 300 million verifiable observations by … the end of October? (That’s a wild guess, if it isn’t obvious.)

You know, I think this site is a success.

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We have the Great Southern Bioblitz in September first.
I think I will abandon identifying …

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Please don’t abandon identifying! I like having company, for one thing (and I’m sorry I can’t help out more in South Africa), plus the fact that iNat has grown so very fast has spurred me to try to do even more IDing.

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Have wandered down a Too Many Legs red legged millipede rabbit hole.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111345385
33 obs, of which 2 are mine. 2 in a milli :rofl:

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Almost didn’t notice my 8000 arachnids in South Africa count, it happened somewhere this week!

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Amazing.

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Got my annotations up to 10% of my ID’s.

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Nice when there are few enough observations that I can add any missing annotations and complete the chart


Southern Whitetop Doellingeria sericocarpoides

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My 2 year forum anniversary also happens to coincide with my 400th day of visiting the forum.

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Just passed 10,000 observations annotated
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?annotation_user_id=lappelbaum&place_id=any&verifiable=any

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Passed 2,000 species today! It’s been an exponential curve of growth for me since I joined iNat in 2022
Screenshot 2024-07-28 at 20-28-55 dgwdoesthings's Profile · iNaturalist

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14 IDs for each species - thank you !!

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In the last month, I hit 2000 species observed and 40k IDs.

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Hit 1000 obs as I was cleaning up my files at my last day at my current job. Excited to move into a new area to regularly monitor but it’s bittersweet! Seemed like a good time to tick that box before moving into a new location and position.

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Your IDs to observations ratio is astounding!

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I just really enjoy IDing plants XD

Often when I’m walking or at work I don’t even think to pull out my camera or phone, but sitting in the evening and chilling out on the computer, IDing is relaxing

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One of my obsessions is keeping a record of species I’ve seen visiting Pittosporum tenuifolium, a common native tree in New Zealand known as kōhūhū and black matipo, among other names. It kicked off a few years ago when we had several of these in our backyard.

I noticed the other day that I’d recently surpassed 75 species observed visiting the plant. I keep track of this by using the “Associated With” observation field, which has the added bonus that the interactions go through to the Global Biotic Interactions database.

I haven’t done an analysis of these species, but I’d guess only a small proportion are herbivores of kōhūhū per se.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=crellow&verifiable=any&view=species&field:Associated%20With=78591

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That’s really interesting, I’m going to go through your observations later