Too many photos - not enough taxonomy

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Collecting specimens to be killed and preserved in a research collection/ museum as vouchers instead of —or along with —photos is not something the majority of iNatters will do. Probably both a philosophical as well as logistical obstacle. Unfortunately a lot of organisms simply can’t be IDed to species based on photos. As someone who comes from a collecting background myself, it was an adjustment for me to mainly do photography and realize that even some of my very good photos of insects can’t be IDed better than family or genus.