Pearl crescent with something tiny flitting just infront of it
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two-striped planthopper nymph with a mite or some kind
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124164140
last year, damselfly with a bunch of mites on its belly and throat
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93807361
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6887650
Don’t think I’ve seen a fly with that body pattern before … interesting.
[At home]
Oh. Ohhh. That’s not actually the fly.
(Seems to be mites)
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Wow, that’s an amazing photo with some great mite-discussion.
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I photographed the Achlys, got my favorite millipede as a bonus. Oh, another bonus. And another. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124842102
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So often, I have seen yet another observation of a very common plant and thought, gee, if the pathogen was IDed instead, it would be a more meaningful data point.
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I was just trying tonight to get a macro lens closeup of a single flower of this plant… was trying for a while to get it in focus with my phone (in vain anyway since it was too small…), and noticed some blurry insects moving about in the background but didn’t pay attention… Suddenly the entire phone screen was filled with a huge spider climbing on the flower. I think I knew it’s just enlarged by the macro lens but I jumped up in terror and dropped my phone and my glasses fell off… And I was so shocked I just collected my stuff and went home. Didn’t get any good pictures but I think in this one I can at least kinda see who it was that scared me to death 
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I’m with you! Those macro lenses are great until… I’ve had jumping spiders ( go figure!) and katydids, springtails and all sorts of bees fly up towards the camera, seemingly into my face! Ack! My flight instinct is fully operational.
I have learned to keep my glasses on a strap ( like I needed for my mittens as a kid) but then that’s because I need them to see farther than three feet and take them off to see my camera!
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Just got this wonderful quadruple observation: a common yarrow plant playing host to a flower crab spider, which was eating an alpine butterfly (would love help with more specificity on both of those), overlooked by an ornate checkered beetle! Such a fun thing to see. Link - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125724818
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Wow! All I can say is… where’s Waldo?
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The grass in front is a Festuca, though I’d need to see more to ID it to species.
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Love that, thank you! (Also I adore your handle)
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Glad you also duplicated that observation, noted what was needed to be identified, and added broad IDs.
A bit sad when a photo like this (one with multiple IDs) shows up in unknows, ends up with only one ID, and stays a mystery as to what the observer wanted identified originally from lack of notes or interaction.
If you duplicate it again for @sedgequeen’s Festuca ID, it would fit nicely into the Ignore the Elephant Seal project.
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Great, thanks for the tips! I’m pretty new to iNat, so this is really helpful. I’ll go back and duplicate now.
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A lot of really good projects have been discussed in the forum here: What are your favorite projects?, of which one of my favorite serious projects is: Plants out of Season. Once you’ve joined a project you can add your own and other peoples observations.
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Heavy rainfall in the northern part of South Korea has me indoors and going through some of my older photos from the last time the nearby river flooded. Found a Misgurnus dabryanus (Large-scale Loach) observation with a water bug in the bottom of the shot that someone identified as an Elliptical Waterbug (Genus Appasus). A new addition to my life list six years later!
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Yes. And like you, I have learned to take a lot of pictures because later, I might spot something else that I entirely overlooked.
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Still amaze myself from time to time with what I managed to miss when focused on the particular specimen at hand - and then too late to get any better identifying photos of the inadvertent capture.
Of these three examples, the first two did result in rather interesting species IDs. The third, of a ‘toadstool’, did not manage to attract an ID beyond ‘cobweb spiders’!
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/93241914 
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/63947130 
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/64165257 
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Was out looking for orchids all day today… and only saw the mantis after taking the orchid picture. This mantis species also is a lifer for me - I’ve seen countless Tenodera sinensis (which are invasive here and far more common than any other mantises) but this one seems to be a native Stagmomantis carolina which made me happy!
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Found this leafhopper in one of my plant photos
Leafhopper: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130041903
Plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130041914
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