If you look at only the past 2 years, NY’s plant leader is Artemisia vulgaris followed closely by Asclepias syriaca. Ageratina altissima is a distant 8th.
Taking away ck2az’s observations of Nevada creosote bushes over the last two years leaves Echinocereus engelmannii as the most observed plant species, which makes sense.
Crazy how a few power users can affect a huge sample size.
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Another bit of iNat most observed list art: Zoe Keller made a poster with top organisms per state using iNat data. https://www.zoekeller.com/store/p/state-prints
They make great gifts!
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People in Ohio love Odonata so much that Cleveland Museum of Natural History publishes a field guide JUST for northeast Ohio. And it isn’t just a phoned in field guide, it is incredibly detailed, with both pictures & diagrams of the species, emergence times, look alikes, etc. I may be a fungi person, but this might actually be my favorite field guide.
https://www.pemberleybooks.com/product/dragonflies-and-damselflies-of-northeast-ohio/20299/
also Ohio has a popular Odonata Survey project with a ton of active users, that goes so far as to post updates on what species have been found so far, what species HAVEN’T been notated in the season, and let’s people know about rare species that have been discovered https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ohio-dragonfly-survey-ohio-odonata-survey
Some of it is proximity to the great lakes, I’m sure, but yeah no Ohioans friggen love Odonata for some reason.
EDIT: I’ve also contributed to this, to be clear - it’s been a little too dry for mushrooms this week so I’ve been uh, taking lots and lots of dragonfly photos.
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California Poppy? … Artichoke Thistle… here I come!
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‘API wizard’ badge for whoever makes the first ‘XKCD skin/theme’ plugin/community app for live-browsing iNat data…?
A more interesting statistic might be the number of users in an area who have reported seeing a given taxon. That would take care of the problem of repeated observations by a small number of users. Not to discount those who post huge numbers of observations of the same species though, that is also potentially very helpful, it just tells a different story.
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So cool!!!
Randy has known about iNat for a long time. He’s married to one of my grad school classmates and back in the early days of iNat some of us in our cohort were very enthusiastic about iNat. Randy used to visit his wife to be and hang out with some of us and heard a lot about iNat, and I’m pretty sure his wife is an iNat user as well.
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My California western fence lizard and California poppy observations.
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Interesting how the most observed species in the whole US rarely make the top of the list for an individual state. Mallard only gets two, and not because Washington and Idaho are contributing all of the Mallard observations (only 6.8%). The next three species don’t appear at all (Western Honey Bee, Monarch, Great Blue Heron). The situation of the top four plants is similar.
(for a more searchable list of what appears in the comic, explainxkcd has a table)
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