Me: a guy at work
You: some kind of moth
You landed on my foot, I thought you were interested, but I only got one good picture before you flew away. Later, I caught you right out of the air, and took you outside. I thought it was another opportunity, but you escaped my grasp before I could get a picture of your face.
Come back, I can’t make an obs with just one picture!
Sootywing butterfly
You can tell from one blurry picture? If it helps, I think I saw white mandibles before it escaped my hand.
Yeah, I’ve seen enough!
This can become a great thread! Every iNatter has lots of stories of missed connections.
Slightly related: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-your-white-whale/ (85 replies)
i understand the frustration of a “missed connection” all too well! glad you got your friend here ID-ed.
my own comes in the form of a baby virginia opossum. i had been exploring each night in search of one, and it wandered into the middle of a footbridge. it went still, posed with a single hand in the air. beautifully lighted by a streetlamp!
i took out my phone, but as i was focusing someone on an electric scooter drove up past me and scared it into the bushes!
such a shame, but i’m glad it moved out of the way. after a few more months of night walks, i found another larger opossum that i got pictures of. but i’m still frustrated about what could have been a very cute photo!!
A butterfly came on my foot about a year ago. I photographed it…
@mikeschinlaub, @egordon88 is kind of amazing that way. He’s ID’d observations that I never thought would make it past Family, let alone all the way to species!
Although with my post comes a danger of this thread becoming “what organisms have landed on your foot“, here is my lifer pickerel frog:
This butterfly in flight was just identified to species and I was surprised: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306252474
“What organisms have landed on your foot?” would be a great forum topic, haha! 
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