To clarify, what observation, that was previously unidentified or misidentified, went the longest between the submitted date and your identification to species?
I was just looking through old buckwheat observations and found one of kueda’s from 2010.
The good news is that it looks like that was the last “Needs ID” buckwheat from 2010 and 2011 was all caught up already. Don’t despair if your observation hasn’t been identified within a few weeks, it might just take a while for the right person to find it!
The oldest submission I took part of was uploaded in 2008, but the year holding most old uploads is 2012, even though most are of poor quality and went from insecta to pterygota.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by “previously unidentified or misidentified” but the oldest observation I have an ID on is also kueda’s, from Apr 9, 2010. I took it from genus to species.
Look at that low observation number! To be fair, several other people also IDed it as Geranium, but I added my ID and marked it as Not Wild, because I recognize it as a garden hybrid (can I remember the variety name right now? No).
My link uses date uploaded rather than date observed. iNat was born in 2008 so anything dated before that is for sure a backdated upload. The original poster did say “went the longest between the submitted date and your identification.”
I hadn’t considered that some of our records were migrated from other platforms. It’s unfortunate that these imported records don’t include information about how they were originally submitted.
