Non-target observations in herbarium specimens - do they have a place on iNaturalist?

It is an accurate reflection of your observation and this is what iNat staff recommended multiple times, if you upload under your account, you can’t upload wild observation with original date. It’s not one person’s view, it’s what was said by people who created the site.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/museum-specimens-antique-photos-and-inaturalist/31638/27

I’d say no. Again, iNat is for your personal encounters with organisms in the “wild” (and yes “wild” can include that cockroach in your house). That doesn’t really extend to specimens you didn’t collect.
iNat is really a place to share one’s personal experiences with nature . It’s not a data repository, and it’s not a place to dump museum specimens. It’s about someone saying “here’s an organism (or track, or scat, etc) that I encountered.

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