I am an inexperienced iNaturalist user, but an experienced arachnologist. I posted an observation that has not yet been elevated to “Research Grade”. One issue is that it does not fit the definition of “Organism is wild”. This was a live specimen I collected in my yard and photgraphed under a mic…

This record definitely does fit the definition of a wild organism per iNaturalist’s definition. It is completely ok to collect a specimen and then photograph it at home; this does not make it captive/cultivated. Just remember to set the location to where you collected it, not where you took the phot…

In the comments of the observation type @theirusername

Organism is wild?

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brhebert September 20, 2023, 6:31pm 3

I find a list of people who are top identifiers, but I don’t see a way to tag them that is obvious, in spite of some hunting around.

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Organism is wild?

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