What are your favorite projects?

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This is an awesome list, I’ll certainly be joining several of these! Also,

Moths are covered in tiny scales and they can easily rub off if they do something like crawling under a leaf and having their top side brush against it, for example. Moths with large quantities of scales missing are often further into their lifespan then more “pristine” looking ones, from my understanding. :)

In other news, I just discovered the Domestic Feral/Stray Animals of the World project, noting feral populations/individuals of domesticated species!

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I went to check out the project just to see what you were talking about and now I’m all filled up on nightmare fuel for the next week.

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It feels kind of wrong to include my own project, but if more people knew about it, maybe it would become a favorite? https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/super-chill-buns

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It looks like @carnifex had the same idea a few days earlier. Great minds! Maybe you can discuss between you to choose one to maintain and both be project curators on it.

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@Ajott @sedgequeen @clockwood @saskatoonafforestationareas @jasonhernandez74 @deboas

I’ve added observations from mentioned projects to Observations With ID Tips. It now has 2500+ observations, 48 members, and a new curator. Keep it going guys! And do tell me if you notice any similar projects, observation fields, or tags.

The umbrella project is brilliant and doesn’t compete with this one at all. It’s a bit more up to date (since I have to update mine manually), and it’s not made to have observations added to it.

Otherwise, to keep on topic, I can share my other group of projects. This umbrella project contains several of my taxon-themed projects where I added the best looking species I could find on iNat, and currently counts over 3000 observations. Curated List of Incredible Species.

And this is for Top 100.

I also find these historical-themed projects amusing, like projects that collect observations in the former territories of the Roman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and so on. You can see all here.

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You might add my project

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/01-bestimmungshilfen-identification-aid

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Aside from the previously mentioned Amazing Aberrants and Jumping Spider (Salticidae) Mimicry, I like:

Gynandromorph Bees (not many observations, but I really like gynandromorphs. Might make a project focusing on them in general, since one doesn’t seem to exist yet…)
Aberrant Arthropods
Bee and Wasp Mimics

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Popped over to the projects page and was met with this recently created gem. I suppose I know what I’m going to be searching for on iNat tonight!

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You and me both! (And filling in annotations as well. Bedtime? What is this ‘bedtime’ of which you speak?)

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It’s actually got two bobcats (!) although neither of them is in a box.
(The description does only specify that they need to be interacting with containers.)
I suddenly feel an urge to start a project for Moose in swimming pools, or Raccoons on porches.
Oh, the possibilities are endless…

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Mine is probably Metaloids, which features all creatures with metallic colors. Pretty self-explanatory.

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Some of my favorites are…

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I finally found a tree to contribute to this project and then I found another only 6 days later!

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Awesome list - just wanted to point you to the Ooo Shiny! Iridescent Insect Wings project (-:

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Here’s a similar project for the rest of the world, mainly north america because I dont see anyone who has listed it here yet. : Congeneric Comparisons: a library of photos that compare two difficult species at the same time · iNaturalist

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A few new projects for plants:

I really like the Aroma of Leaves. It’s helpful to know about scents for certain plants that are easier to identify by smell than to key out and can sometimes help with IDing sprouting plants too.

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Definitely going to be using that potted weeds one :+1:

Edit: nevermind. I misunderstood the use of the project. I thought it was for wild observations of any species that come up in a pot. Apparently this is for weedy species where are planted purposefully (cultivated). This topic could be easily done with a collection project rather than traditional.

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As has been discussed before, projects for a given taxon and/or geographic location are essentially saved searches; but there are other projects which are based more on a theme (like the ones @vreinkymov just mentioned).

As today is #Identifriday, I want to ask: does anyone here do IDs in those projects that are not taxon- or geographic-based?

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For clarification, this statement

only really applies to Collection Projects.