# Observing & Identifying Wildlife - wiki **URL:** \ **Category:** Nature Talk\ **Created:** [August 11, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332 "2020-08-11T00:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![schizoform](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schizoform/32/3992_2.png) [@schizoform](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schizoform)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/1 "2020-08-11T00:30:39Z")
_[Please feel free to expand! I’d like this to stay a top level guide to guides – it might make sense to break out subordinate clades with their own wikis, if this gets unwieldy. I welcome any help! Note that because this is a wiki, it can still be edited despite comments being closed.]_ # General Advice - iNat - Tips’n’Tricks - [http://www.cassisaari.com/inaturalist-tips-tricks/](http://www.cassisaari.com/inaturalist-tips-tricks/) - URL switches - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63) - Photo recs: - discussion - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-taking-recommendations-by-taxon/1962](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-taking-recommendations-by-taxon/1962) - guide - [https://www.bcinat.com/\_files/ugd/f82a97\_911b2967870f4e4e9d97472f547d1a41.pdf](https://www.bcinat.com/_files/ugd/f82a97_911b2967870f4e4e9d97472f547d1a41.pdf) - guide (deprecated) - [https://inaturalist.nz/guides/2465](https://inaturalist.nz/guides/2465) - Field Guide recs: - proposal - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-crowd-sourced-database-of-all-field-guides-filtered-by-location-taxa-and-other-categories/7027](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-crowd-sourced-database-of-all-field-guides-filtered-by-location-taxa-and-other-categories/7027) - discussion - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/current-or-general-favorite-field-guides/656](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/current-or-general-favorite-field-guides/656) # Microorganisms Various guides to taxa: - diatoms - [https://diatoms.org/genera/pinnularia](https://diatoms.org/genera/pinnularia) - overview of North American genera [not available online] - [https://books.google.ru/books/about/Freshwater\_Algae\_of\_North\_America.html?id=yjnLAwAAQBAJ&redir\_esc=y](https://books.google.ru/books/about/Freshwater_Algae_of_North_America.html?id=yjnLAwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y) - midwestern algae - [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23616#page/7/mode/1up](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23616#page/7/mode/1up) - [https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Documents/programs/convention/2018/WedPM/GinaLaLiberte\_BlueGreenAlgaeinWI.pdf](https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Documents/programs/convention/2018/WedPM/GinaLaLiberte_BlueGreenAlgaeinWI.pdf) # Plants How to Photograph Plants - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/presentation-how-to-photograph-plants-and-more-by-lena-struwe-and-peter-nitzsche/15143](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/presentation-how-to-photograph-plants-and-more-by-lena-struwe-and-peter-nitzsche/15143) Various guides to taxa: - grasses - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-identify-grasses/8538/3](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-identify-grasses/8538/3) - ferns of canada [pdf] -[https://gardening.usask.ca/documents/Ferns\_and\_Fern\_Allies\_of\_Canada.pdf](https://gardening.usask.ca/documents/Ferns_and_Fern_Allies_of_Canada.pdf) - hickories - [http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/pages/compare-hickories.htm](http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/pages/compare-hickories.htm) - ash - [http://www.treeremoval.com/ash-tree-identification-guide/#.XYLP0ChKg-V](http://www.treeremoval.com/ash-tree-identification-guide/#.XYLP0ChKg-V) - galls - [https://www.gallformers.org/](https://www.gallformers.org/) > **Vascular plants ([Tracheophyta](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/211194))** : [Kew’s Plants of the World Online (POWO)](https://powo.science.kew.org/) = [the external taxonomic authority](https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/curator+guide#authorities) Hard cases: - TREE OF HEAVEN v WALNUT v SUMAC [vid] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BA5Dec3\_8o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BA5Dec3_8o) Ocean drift seeds: - [Drift Seeds and Fruits](http://www.waynesword.net/pldec398.htm) - [A Sea-bean Identification Guide](https://www.seabean.com/guide/index.htm) ## Regional Plant Guides ### North America - **New England** : [GoBotany](https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/) - **Minnesota**. [Minnesota wildflowers](https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/) # Fungi How to photograph fungi: - Photo from above, side, and especially underside of cap if present. Photo in context & note substrate / nearby plants. Bonus: Spore prints, bruising, microscopy, genes. - [vid] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKF\_pIY0Zpc1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKF_pIY0Zpc1) Various guides to taxa: - General - [https://www.mushroomexpert.com/major\_groups.html](https://www.mushroomexpert.com/major_groups.html) - Boletes - [https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/](https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/) # Animals ## Invertebrates ### Arthropods - **North America** : [BugGuide](https://bugguide.net/node/view/15740) predates and is similar to iNaturalist in that members submit photographs for identification, but curated and limited to North American arthropods. #### Spiders - …of Europe - [https://araneae.nmbe.ch/](https://araneae.nmbe.ch/) - …of New England [pdf] - [https://ipminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Spider-Guide-Wegner-BASF-Revised-12-2-14.pdf](https://ipminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Spider-Guide-Wegner-BASF-Revised-12-2-14.pdf) - ventral views of Orbweavers - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifying-common-orbweavers-from-the-underside-wiki/275](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifying-common-orbweavers-from-the-underside-wiki/275) #### Insects - Expert community - [https://bugguide.net/](https://bugguide.net/) - Insects writ large - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-guide-for-insecta-orders/3868](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-guide-for-insecta-orders/3868) - Larva generally - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/insect-larvae-guides/11657](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/insect-larvae-guides/11657) - Galls - [https://www.gallformers.org/](https://www.gallformers.org/) - Flies - [https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide](https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide) - Dragonflies refs - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/guides-to-butterflies-and-dragonflies-of-the-americas/11676](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/guides-to-butterflies-and-dragonflies-of-the-americas/11676) - Hymenoptera - Atlas Hymenoptera Europe - [http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/default.aspx](http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/default.aspx) - Bumble Bees of the Western United States - [https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/BumbleBeeGuideWestern2012.pdf](https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/BumbleBeeGuideWestern2012.pdf) - Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States - [https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/BumbleBeeGuideEast2011.pdf](https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/BumbleBeeGuideEast2011.pdf) see also [https://www.xerces.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/12-052\_01\_Eastern\_Bumble\_Bee.pdf](https://www.xerces.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/12-052_01_Eastern_Bumble_Bee.pdf) see also (simplified for VA [https://www.vaworkinglandscapes.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/VWL\_handouts/Bumble\_Bees\_of\_Virginia\_Pamphlet\_VWL.pdf](https://www.vaworkinglandscapes.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/VWL_handouts/Bumble_Bees_of_Virginia_Pamphlet_VWL.pdf)) - Lepidoptera - Caterpillars of NAmerican eastern forests - [https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/pdfs/Caterpillars\_of\_Eastern\_Forests.pdf](https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/pdfs/Caterpillars_of_Eastern_Forests.pdf) - NAmerican noctuid moths - [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wiki-common-north-american-noctuid-moth-identification/10831](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wiki-common-north-american-noctuid-moth-identification/10831) - clearwings - [http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/Sphinx/bshthysbe.htm](http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/Sphinx/bshthysbe.htm) - [http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7854](http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7854) #### Onychophora - Onychophora observation and identification guide - [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/jameskdouch/64127-onychophora-observation-and-identification-guide](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/jameskdouch/64127-onychophora-observation-and-identification-guide) ## Fish - Fishbase - [https://www.fishbase.se/Hints.php](https://www.fishbase.se/Hints.php) ## Amphibians & Reptiles - Field herp forum - [http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/](http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/) ## Birds - Getting started - [https://www.audubon.org/birding/how-to-start-birding](https://www.audubon.org/birding/how-to-start-birding) - Expert community - [http://ebird.org/](http://ebird.org/) - ID help - [https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search) - Feathers - [https://foundfeathers.org/resources/](https://foundfeathers.org/resources/) ## Mammals - Discover Life - [https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Mammalia](https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Mammalia) ---
**Author:** ![schoenitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schoenitz/32/56_2.png) [@schoenitz](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schoenitz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/2 "2020-08-11T00:35:35Z")
Seems to be working. ---
**Author:** ![earthknight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/earthknight/32/32879_2.png) [@earthknight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/earthknight)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/3 "2020-08-11T03:23:01Z")
I haven’t updated this in a while, but on my blog I have a page for wildlife and plant ID resources: [https://writingfornature.wordpress.com/links-to-interesting-blogs/what-animal-was-that/](https://writingfornature.wordpress.com/links-to-interesting-blogs/what-animal-was-that/) ---
**Author:** ![teellbee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/teellbee/32/15498_2.png) [@teellbee](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/teellbee)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/4 "2020-08-14T13:32:54Z")
Yes! You really do have some great links, and the blog posts are very well-written. You have some wonderful, unusual topics. I particularly liked the posting about the Ba Cat Island langurs. 😌 Thank you for sharing that. ---
**Author:** ![earthknight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/earthknight/32/32879_2.png) [@earthknight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/earthknight)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/5 "2020-08-15T01:55:53Z")
I _really_ need to do some new posts, but work here with the langurs just doesn’t leave me with enough free time where I have the energy to put into writing more posts. I feel kind of bad about not uploading more and adding to the lists of ID, GIS, etc resources. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/6 "2020-10-14T21:59:24Z")
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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/7 "2020-12-18T13:47:28Z")
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**Author:** ![ellyne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ellyne/32/11652_2.png) [@ellyne](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ellyne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/8 "2021-03-18T18:36:21Z")
Hello! I wanted to share this general iNaturalist photo guide that just got released yesterday as part of the BC Parks iNaturalist Project! [http://johnreynolds.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/iNaturalist-Photo-Guide.pdf](http://johnreynolds.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/iNaturalist-Photo-Guide.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![stefadrian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/stefadrian/32/21641_2.png) [@stefadrian](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/stefadrian)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/9 "2023-01-16T08:53:18Z")
MEDITERRANEAN - marine ID books GERMANY, AUSTRIA - plant ID books check out my iNat profile: [https://www.inaturalist.org/people/4565033](https://www.inaturalist.org/people/4565033) ---
**Author:** ![teellbee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/teellbee/32/15498_2.png) [@teellbee](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/teellbee)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/10 "2023-01-16T21:22:57Z")
I got a 404 error when I tried the link to the photo guide, but I could try again later. ---
**Author:** ![ellyne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ellyne/32/11652_2.png) [@ellyne](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ellyne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/11 "2023-01-16T21:46:46Z")
Oh, thank you for letting me know! I’ll let John know. But in the meantime, the link from the BC iNaturalist project website works. Here it is :D [https://www.bcinat.com/\_files/ugd/f82a97\_911b2967870f4e4e9d97472f547d1a41.pdf](https://www.bcinat.com/_files/ugd/f82a97_911b2967870f4e4e9d97472f547d1a41.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![schizoform](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schizoform/32/3992_2.png) [@schizoform](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schizoform)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/12 "2023-01-16T22:07:32Z")
Thanks! I swapped in your working URL for the one on the wiki. (Since it is a wiki, y’all are welcome to edit it directly to make improvements!) ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/13 "2024-03-16T20:43:58Z")
This post is inspired by the journal entry [Documenting Mushrooms · iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/3531-documenting-mushrooms), which @nikibifrost often links in comments on mushrooms. It is a guide to what to include in a photograph to make a mushroom observation identifiable. Well, mushrooms are not the only taxa with problems. Think of that one genus or higher that you know well, that you are constantly bumping back from species-level identifications. Wouldn’t it be nice if more of the people observing it knew how to take an identifiable photo? Take Lumbricidae. People seem to default to calling them all _Lumbricus terrestris_, and taxon experts are seldom able to do more than bump them back to family. Now, maybe getting to species takes dissection or microscopy; but what about genus or some other level between family and species? Are there features which, if people knew to include them, would let you get to one of those levels? We can’t currently search journal posts the way we can search Forum posts, so I had to wait to start this thread until I came upon an observation with Niki’s link to the journal post. But maybe this thread can be a start on collating some of this type of material if it is out there. Have you come across journal posts that explain how to take identifiable photos of taxa that are usually unidentifiable? ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/15 "2024-03-16T23:32:59Z")
I moved this post to the Nature Talk area because that seems to be where similar threads are found and I figured it might help others find this thread if it was in the same place. I also created and added a “resources” tag since that seems to be a keyword in these types of threads. Here are some examples of other threads on specific taxa that might be of interest: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/laymans-guide-to-fungus-orders-families/46181](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/laymans-guide-to-fungus-orders-families/46181) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/resources-for-identifying-fungi/38332](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/resources-for-identifying-fungi/38332) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-should-i-look-for-in-grasshoppers/46469](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-should-i-look-for-in-grasshoppers/46469) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-resources/41194](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-resources/41194) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/european-bivalve-and-mollusc-id-resources/39455](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/european-bivalve-and-mollusc-id-resources/39455) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ant-identification-resources-europe/36782](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ant-identification-resources-europe/36782) [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/resources-to-identify-remains-in-bird-pellets-regurgitations/37058](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/resources-to-identify-remains-in-bird-pellets-regurgitations/37058) Some of them include links to iNat journal posts, but many are resources that are off iNat as well. There are probably others that could be added to that list/this thread. ---
**Author:** ![anthonywalton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/anthonywalton/32/6124_2.png) [@anthonywalton](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/anthonywalton)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/17 "2024-03-16T23:54:50Z")
For any fellow S’Africans here, I find this to be a very useful catalog of well-structured and detailed ID Keys for many of our local insect taxa, even if most of them are from the early 1900’s and some information may be dated: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/) ---
**Author:** ![sbushes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/sbushes/32/8217_2.png) [@sbushes](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/sbushes)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/18 "2024-03-17T01:31:14Z")
Would be a very useful wiki if there could be something edittable by everyone! But could also get a bit out of hand maybe… where do you stop with families, different regions, etc… ? Or are you just asking specifically for journal posts? If this hasn’t already formed a post…at least presumably someone has already compiled many links already and can provide a good starting point. …but here are a few to throw in the mix regardless : Worms : [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/opal/SOIL-4pp-chart.pdf](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/opal/SOIL-4pp-chart.pdf) Spiders : [https://araneae.nmbe.ch/biodiversity/countrylist](https://araneae.nmbe.ch/biodiversity/countrylist) Beetles : [https://www.coleoptera.org.uk/curculionoidea/weevil-identification-guides](https://www.coleoptera.org.uk/curculionoidea/weevil-identification-guides) Flies: [Diptera.info](https://diptera.info/photogallery.php) [UK (and many European) Hoverflies](https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629600153789/) I could add so many more. I have a lot of bookmarks as I am sure we all do. But I will stop here haha… I think this would be great if it was a wiki that could be properly formed and contributed to though. ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/20 "2024-03-17T12:54:00Z")
Good idea on the wiki (and suggestions from others as well). There is an existing wiki thread that this fits well with, and resources can be added to - quite an impressive collection, so I’ve merged this thread/posts here - add away! ---
**Author:** ![bommerer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bommerer/32/54251_2.png) [@bommerer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bommerer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/21 "2025-01-17T12:42:42Z")
> [@schizoform](#): > > **Vascular plants ([Tracheophyta](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/211194))** : [Kew’s Plants of the World Online (POWO)](https://powo.science.kew.org/) = [the external taxonomic authority](https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/curator+guide#authorities) [PoWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/) is amazing! ---
**Author:** ![pleasenotanothereust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/pleasenotanothereust/32/71964_2.png) [@pleasenotanothereust](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pleasenotanothereust)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/22 "2026-04-29T03:27:43Z")
Wrote this last semester as a way to study for a final, but may be useful? It’s on Utah Lagomorpha (though doesn’t include pikas, I’ll have to get around to adding those eventually). [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/120810-differentiating-utah-lagomorpha](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/120810-differentiating-utah-lagomorpha) Also have these two (which are admittedly WIPs): - [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/120816-wip-differentiating-utah-rodentia-primarily-mice-kangaroo-rats](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/120816-wip-differentiating-utah-rodentia-primarily-mice-kangaroo-rats) (some) Utah Rodentia (mainly mice, kangaroo rats) - [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/129664-wip-utah-brassicoideae-id](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/pleasenotanothereust/129664-wip-utah-brassicoideae-id) Utah Brassicoideae (so far has the species I’ve encountered the most, including tansymustards, pepperweeds, alyssum, and some others) ---
**Author:** ![pleasenotanothereust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/pleasenotanothereust/32/71964_2.png) [@pleasenotanothereust](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pleasenotanothereust)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-identifying-wildlife-wiki/15332/23 "2026-05-05T21:22:40Z")
Adding some others I’ve come across recently: - Isopod ID (specifically Armidillidiidae vs Armadillidae): [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/17943-identification-tips-armadillidae-vs-armadillidiidae](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/17943-identification-tips-armadillidae-vs-armadillidiidae) - Australian _Eristalinus_ descriptions translated into English: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/sirhck/130048-eristalinus-of-australia-translated-descriptions](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/sirhck/130048-eristalinus-of-australia-translated-descriptions) - Pultaneas from the Grampian region in Australia (including tips for IDing when more specific traits (ie bracteoles) aren’t shown in photos: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/grampianshiker/129968-pultenaeas-of-the-grampians](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/grampianshiker/129968-pultenaeas-of-the-grampians) - Columbian Basin funnel weaver ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/observedinsitu/129726-identifying-funnel-weavers-in-the-columbian-basin](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/observedinsitu/129726-identifying-funnel-weavers-in-the-columbian-basin) - What photos to take for aster ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/elizabeth1067/71885-photographing-asters-for-identification](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/elizabeth1067/71885-photographing-asters-for-identification) - Flower crab spider ID in US/Canada: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/natev/97633-identifying-flower-crab-spiders-tribe-misumenini-in-north-america-part-1-the-us-and-canada](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/natev/97633-identifying-flower-crab-spiders-tribe-misumenini-in-north-america-part-1-the-us-and-canada) - Madagascar ghost crab ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/74233-identifying-madagascar-ghost-crabs](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/74233-identifying-madagascar-ghost-crabs) - Australian ghost crab ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/74283-identifying-australian-ghost-crabs](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/74283-identifying-australian-ghost-crabs) - _Eumaeus_ ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/20740-identifying-cycadians-genus-eumaeus](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/loarie/20740-identifying-cycadians-genus-eumaeus)