Hi, I created my first project ( https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/earwigs-attracted-to-light ) and I couldn’t add observations to it - even after many hours, it still doesn’t work. I tried to restrict it to certain taxa (but all that happened was that EVERY observation of those taxa were added a…

It sounds like you need a traditional project, because “Earwigs attracted to lights” is not something you can collect automatically. You could have a collection project that collects all earwigs, or all earwigs in a particular place, but there is no way for a collection project to know what attracte…

as @Vireya said, it is not possible to manually add observations to a collection project, you need to make a traditional project. Collection projects automatically collate observations based on filters like a taxon, place, or date range. at https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/new , scroll to the bo…

Thank you! I totally overlooked the option for traditional projects.

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