I was initially looking for a good book on identifying Imperial Moths because apparently there are different subspecies here where I live. When searching Google Books, I really could not find what I was looking for. After that, I took a closer inspection of an observation of an Imperial Moth - https…

If you have a collection of old photos you took, it’s definitely ok to post them . Here’s an interview with Greg Lasley, who uploaded slides from his decades of nature photography .

I searched through iNat using the filters and this is the oldest I found that I believe https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59166757 . Answer: 1857

[image] brentturcotte: Answer: 1857 For everyone, the link to see this plus some other old observations is: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=1600-01-01&d2=1900-01-01&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&reviewed=any&subview=table I think @brentturcotte rightly excluded the…

The specimen is from 1857 but not the photo. @greglasley does have some from the 1960s. Oldest I’ve submitted so far are from 1985. Which isn’t that old, right? Okay it’s kinda old.

Looking through every observation with an earlier date than the blue racer, I think you’re right. Every earlier observation appears to be a preserved specimen, upload of a photograph that is not their own, or a photograph of a photograph (or text description).The title belt for earliest iNat observa…

Old observations are useful in cases of range shifting, i.e. comparing where a taxon presently occurs with where it formerly occurred.

O’k, here is my own oldest photo: June 1975. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32541538

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