I collected some water lilies from the lake behind my house. The rhizomes had been uprooted so I just collected what was floating. I put them in a fishtank on my backporch in some water that I collected at the same time. I had some hitchhikers including dragonfly nymphs. I didn’t take any photos of …

Definitely wild as @kevinfaccenda said. It’s up to you if you want to make two separate observations for the molt and the adult, but since you’re sure they’re from the same individual I would personally make one (with photos of both) and annotate it as Evidence of Presence: Organism and Molt

Definitely wild. While the dragonfly was not in its habitat, it was not captively breed or anything like that. If I bring a raccoon into my garage, it’s still a wild racoon even if it is captive at the moment.

I also think wild is good for this one. I would make the location of the observation the lake site where you caught it and just give a few notes on the situation in your description.

No, for iNat it will certainly be captive at the time of being in a garage, please read relevant topics, captivity is not about being bred by humans from iNat perspective.

Just don’t post adult one at the time/place where you got the nymphs, nymphs, if you captured them at the stage they where when you caught them, can be posted as if they where in original spot, as you didn’t have any intention to catch them and you didn’t do anything for their life after, they’re ok…

i think the thread about fish markets generally assumes you don’t know the collection location / time. because the collection location / time is known in this case, i think this other thread more closely aligns with this topic: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/are-culture-based-observations-considere…

There was also a thread right about bowls with collected material, I forgot how they’re called, but that thread was the same as this one with one big difference in caring about the bowl after collecting.

[image] marina_gorbunova: nymphs, if you captured them at the stage they where when you caught them, can be posted as if they where in original spot Captured as in photographed? I didn’t photograph it when it was still a nymph. But I did photograph a leech that was also hitchhiking. I didn’t …

Yes, I mean photographed, from previous posts general consensus was to use original date only on animals that didn’t change drastically, if you post imago with original date it would mean there was an imago at that day, which is not true from that specimen, I’d say it’s more fair to use current loca…

Is my dragonfly observation captive or not?

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diegoalmendras August 4, 2021, 1:21pm 7

it reminds me this tread about fishes at fish markets https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-deal-with-observations-of-fish-on-fish-markets/397

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Is my dragonfly observation captive or not?

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