We have a big garden centre in town where I often go with my wife who is always keen to look for new plants and supplies. Its flowering stock is mostly on display outdoors, under sun tarps, and like most of our town, this centre lies right below the lush, Carolinian wilds of the Niagara Escarpment. …

A garden center is a great place for practicing hand held photography… it’s not easy to capture images ( I used to take pictures, funny how the words make it sound fancy!) of butterflies and other flyers hand held and fast! And since they keep the plants up where I can stand to photograph, it’s a ph…

Wow. Pretty good cartoon comment that has stood the test of time.

^Exactly. Frogs, lizards, salamanders - lots of things hitchhiking and becoming established via nurseries. Worth documenting. I’d just mark “captive/cultivated” for the plants, “wild” for the pollinators (most of them anyway). As for the hitchhiking vertebrates, I guess that might depend. Anyway, de…

[image] jasonhernandez74: There are still few voices on iNaturalist, or in botany generally, who can see value in cultivated plants. Doing this can help to counter that prejudice. I’ve been making more of an effort lately to include cultivated plants when I do my identifying. Admittedly, most…

This beetle was at a native plant nursery in town Trichodes bibalteatus from Fourth St NW, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM, US on June 22, 2022 at 12:28 PM by Elliott Gordon · iNaturalist [image] graysquirrel: Besides, it’s what supports most of our urban wildlife. It depends where you are. I…

Some of my most cherished observations are of insects at home and on walls outside my work. It gives me such a thrill to find the dazzling, improbable, unusual, or under-observed critters lurking right under our very noses. The biggest way iNaturalist has changed my relationship with the natural wor…

[image] jnstuart: How often on a hike do you see fellow hikers who seem oblivious to the nature around them and instead focused on whatever discussion about personal affairs they’re having? You can spot the naturalist in such situations — they’re quiet, focused on what’s around them, and probabl…

When I visited a city park, I could hear people doing a walk and talk from quite a distance. When they finally made their way past, I joined the conversation. They thought I was rude! Me? No, if you don’t want everyone to hear don’t talk in the woods! I’ve also been nearly run over by mountain bike…

My favorite is the casual hikers who like to bless everyone with a carefully curated selection of their favorite music, extra points when they do it through over-powered bluetooth speakers turned up to 11, where even if the music is agreeable, it’s so tinny with distortion.

Pollinators at the garden centre: Like stealing candy from baby fish in a barrel

Nature Talk

janet_rockburn July 25, 2022, 10:28am 35

Sounds like an ideal suggestion for this thread- https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inatting-nature-hikes-while-injured-handicapped/7568

Topic		Replies	Views
Apparently i look suspicios while making observation General	154	7920	April 28, 2023
You know you're seriously into iNat when Nature Talk musings , mostly-humor	2300	107859	August 30, 2026
Why do you use INat? General	53	1799	October 2, 2025
What is it that you love about iNat? General	66	2911	October 16, 2022
Relevance of cultivated species observations General cultivated	53	3401	August 25, 2022

Pollinators at the garden centre: Like stealing candy from baby fish in a barrel

Related topics