I think as children we were taught that finding a lady beetle (“Marienkäfer”) brings good luck so I guess everyone here just tries to observe them. The native one is a bit further down at #17 but most locals wouldn’t be able to distinguish them. And those snails are just very big and slow so hard to miss and easy to take a picture!
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Yes!! Let’s go New Zealand!! About 0.8% of those are mine:D
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In the meantime, within just two weeks, Austria surpassed both Argentinia and Denmark and is heading straight to catch Portugal and Colombia 
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To keep this thread alive until HongKong surpasses the 1M mark, South Africa is scratching at the 3 Million milestone.
Meanwhile, Austria overtook both Portugal and Colombia 
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3,180,618 for South Africa today.
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Non-verifiable observations have always been disregarded since the beginning of this thread
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The tiny but very active HongKong hit 1 Million ‘wild’ observations recently!
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Tiny but populous! About 1 observation per 7.5 people.
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A very special member entered the club: Ласкаво просимо 
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And what a nice set of round numbers, not only in term of observations 
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Since starting this thread (less than 3 years ago), New Zealand has doubled its number of verifiable observations - now over 2 million!
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I’m happy to have contributed to that quite a bit lately!
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May that be because they are difficult to ID? Is that not true for dandelions in general?
pura vida, mae!! 
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Congratulations
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The amazing thing is that such a high-density concrete jungle has more than 11,000 species. Granted, Central Park is undoubtedly a factor, but still, that is a surprising number considering.
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Even with 10 species of orchid, including an extremely rare one, if the data are right 
Does anyone know what’s going on in Benin? For a relatively obscure country it seems to have a large base of observers, which is very nice to see. It has 85,000 observations, while Nigeria and Ghana (both with larger populations) both only having 28k. Togo and Burkina Faso have 1k and 10k respectively which isn’t surprising.
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