Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this or if it has been answered before but I’m new to iNaturalist and still trying to find my way.
Today I added a few observations, the suggested identification when uploading the photo’s was “Asian Lady Beetle” - which I used. Now when I look at my “Observations” page they are shown with that common name and additional identifications from other contributors using the same common name. When however I look at my “Home / Dashboard” page both my observation and the additional identifications are shown as “Harlequin Ladybird”. They obviously refer to the same thing since the scientific name is the same. I suspect it is US / UK name thing but why does the observation and species pages use, what I think is the US common name, and the home page the UK one. My profile setting is set to iNaturalist UK so shouldn’t that be used for common names or do I need to set something else as well.
Hi, welcome to the forum! Please share a bit more information about what platform you are using (website, Android, iOS, iOS classic), and screenshots if possible. thanks!
Not a big deal, just wondering why it is different on the different pages and if there is something I need to set to get UK common name as my default display.
Thanks for the tip. Just checked and I had only set the “Common Name Lexicon Display Order” to “English” because there isn’t “English (United Kingdom)” in the dropdown. Didn’t realise you have to set the “Add place (optional)” separately. Have set it now to “English (United Kingdom)” and it now shows “Harlequin Ladybird” for those observation previously shown as “Asian Lady Beetle”.
