What are some things you specifically learned on iNaturalist (or the forum) that have surprised you or maybe that you found interesting enough that you turned to someone less naturalist-y (I made that up) and shared? Here are some of mine: Square trees Photographs of flies’ nether regions are hel…

Thanks, long time lurker lol! My grandfather is a lobster fisherman, so it’s of special interest :)

Oh man, the field guides - so much misery right there.

Not misery for me. I still have two bookcases full of field guides but, admittedly, I don’t look at them much anymore. But they were once my main sources of information when trying to learn and ID organisms in my area, right through my college days and during my first jobs in biology. I’d often have…

Since joining iNaturalist, it really has broadened my understanding of nature in so many ways, and has led me to meet interesting people whom I would never have met otherwise! In terms of deepening my understanding of nature - I recall my first impressions were that nature was more resilient in the…

Learned by accident that while entering a subspecies observation you can accept the computer vision suggestion of genus and species then click in the box again and sometimes get a list of suggested subspecies. Sometimes. Can save a lot of typing when it works.

[image] jnstuart: I still have two bookcases full of field guides but, admittedly, I don’t look at them much anymore. I still use mine. I’ll even break them out while doing IDs on iNat. There are observations at RG today which are there because I still refer to my field guides.

[image] ItsMeLucy: What are some things you specifically learned on iNaturalist (or the forum) that have surprised you Doing IDs just now – choosing a taxon but not a location – I was surprised to learn how much salal (Gaultheria shallon) has been observed in Britain. That’s a Pacific Northwe…

I think besides improving my knowledge on certain taxa, I think there is one key takeaway that I can apply to my life in general: stopping to appreciate the world around me more. I’ve observed almost 800 species since I started using inat about a year ago, most of which I had never even seen or hea…

[image] ItsMeLucy: What are some things you specifically learned on iNaturalist Just how amazingly diverse insect life is even in urban areas! iNat got me interested in weird bugs (for whatever value of weird my brain feels that day).

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