I was walking through a bog in my county(Nassau NY) when I stumbled across a rare plant that has not been seen in 28 years in the county. The name is Polygala nuttallii, and it is an imperiled plant in NY. Also there was carnivorous sundews(Drosera), bladderworts, Rhexia, screwstems, and rare gramno…

Most of what I see is fairly common so it was a surprise to me, when I went back and looked at this tiny Hudsonian Ladybird beetle https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193086231 that there were only 2 other iNat observations in the whole giant state of Alaska, and all 3 are hundreds of miles a…

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=336908&user_id=ra_teo&verifiable=any - a lifer with little over 350 obs worldwide ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=336908 )… this might be my rarest one so far

People who can ID sponges as anything other than “Sponges” are as rare as hen’s teeth. I work in southeast Asia as a marine biology academic and only know one member of the Poriferati in real life. He’s not on iNat. He says he can’t do better than an amateur with only a photograph.

I don’t know if I said this before but I actually have two obs of unidentified sharks from 2023 in Tonga.

Mine’s either the six Tipula pagana I saw (species only has ~340 observations) or a coniopterygid larva I spotted today (only about 70 observations of the larvae!).

This is a really cool tool that I just found out about recently: https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/species-observed [Screen Shot 2025-12-11 at 12.39.01 PM]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168892769 That is my rarest find that is RG Thanks mkanimallover for that nifty link

I had the first record of a jumping spider species in Mississippi! It’s a prairie species and was found on a small remnant of the Blackbelt Prairie! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225871007

What a cool resource, thank you!! :smiley:

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How cool! And welcome to the forum!

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