The difference is that an individual plant can have, for example, buds, flowers and fruit, but an individual lepidopteran cannot be both adult and egg. The basis of an iNat observation is an interaction with one individual at a particular place and time; it isn’t a no-brainer to abolish that just because you have particular preferences. If you feel people will want to find observations of fawns (because fawns are less common), then annotate for the fawn. If you see a pair mating, use an observation field to mark that. If you don’t want to annotate, feel free to leave it for someone else.
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