Hi everyone, and happy new year!!! So 2025 has come to an end, and so has a great year of iNatting! What are your iNat goals and plans for the new year? I hope to reach fifty thousand IDs, ten thousand observations, and one thousand annotations. I will be getting on here and out there whenever po…

Happy New Year! :partying_face::tada::confetti_ball::fireworks::sparkler::firecracker: I’m hoping to hit 100k ID’s, 5k obs, and 1.5k anonations

I’m hoping to add IDs for 80% of the Australian Loranthaceae observations I haven’t reviewed: something like 10,000 at the rate they are now being added. I plan to annotate them as I go.

Happy New Year! :) I’m still a bit doubtful currently, whether it will work out, but I might get my hands on a really good microscope that can do fluorescence, phase contrast, etc, and has an adapter for my camera already. If that works out, I hope I can get some amazing microscopy photos to upload…

Thanks for all your help and id skills.

And if you do, you ought to practice on some springtails. :P Well, my goal is to also upgrade microscope, so hopefully both of our goals are fulfilled!

Ooh, I’ll try that, thank you for the tip! Although they may be a bit too large already. I’m planning on getting a good 20x and probably a 10x as well later on and keep the rest as cheap as possible. (I don’t have the money for a full set of high end objectives haha). My primary focus is meiofauna, …

I recommend a 7-45x stero microscope for low magnification needs, they typically have a working distance of 10cm if you need to manipulate anything and a 1.5x barlow lens to reduce the working distance to 4cm and increase magnification.

[image] mkanimallover: What are your iNat goals and plans for the new year? I just want to do more than last year. It’s a little too cold for me go outside, so I ID’ed today. Off to a good start. [image]

(1) Spend more time in the field. (2) Work on some in-person events to help introduce newcomers to iNat. This grows out of my efforts to ID Unknowns — so many newcomers seem to drop off iNat after 20-50 observations, and when you’re IDing, often you get a sense of how they find the platform frustr…

I’m making a daily observation challenge. By the moment is just to make a research grade observation every day, but I’m aiming to do 365 different species (But I’m not sure if I will be able to do that during winter months)

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texas_nature_family January 1, 2026, 3:55am 2

Happy New Year!

I’m hoping to hit 100k ID’s, 5k obs, and 1.5k anonations

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