One of my favorite things about inatting is finding something new! So here I ask what is your favorite species you’ve seen that was new to you this week? Personally mine has to be either the Phantom Orchids I found, or the aphids I found on them! I want this to be a fun thread of everyone’s exciting…

I got a few lifers this week, including, earlier today, a trip to Cliffs of the Neuse, which I haven’t visited in years. But my favorite was from much closer to home. ▶ Trigger warning: Spider It isn’t a lifer in the strict sense, because I shared my home with one in South Carolina when I worked at …

My week has been full of lifers, mostly beetles and mites. My favorite was this beetle I found in some compost, Glischrochilus vittatus . [large] I also found several other kinds of beetle that were new to me https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=493167&user_id=isopodguy&verifiable=…

Adding this one to the new beetle list as well. It just got ID’d https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267613211

[1000158480] [1000158413] [1000158391] I got several lifers this week since I decided to travel to Greece. This one is probably my favorite - one of only two blue orchids in Europe, Ophrys speculum. Also, saw it completely by chance, it was growing in the middle of Athens, on the hill next to the …

Saw my first palm weevil ! It is a quite feared pest because it destroys palms (they are well known invasives in San Diego), but they are quite cool bugs. It was quite large and heavy, and I didn’t know some weevils also fly without opening their elytra (as cetoniines do). Saw the bug flying around s…

My mind is officially blown because I reached out to Mexico’s premier Asteroideae Identifier certain he was going to tell me in a few days I would have giant flowers from the mass of buds I observed, only for him to tell me these were flowers in full bloom. Behold Erigeron laevigatus , which is nati…

[IMG_9785] [IMG_9825] Technically last week, but still just two days before posting this, and this is one of my favorite lifers ever! Sacramento County’s(California) first Barred Owl!!

And what a beautiful chonker! Welcome to the Forum, what a wonderful first post, and maybe I have been doing it wrong the whole time (if so, wheeee!) but I think if I saw something within the last seven days, it qualifies as “this week”.

Thanks! I discovered Forums yesterday and I am loving the dicussions so much (especially the one regarding Troglodytes nabiscoensis and the like. :joy:) P.S. Anything within the past seven days does seem right, I’m sure no one could really say there’s anything wrong with it.

What is your Favorite Lifer from this week?

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man4nature March 30, 2025, 8:40pm 2552

I did this again lol. I pinned another spot for the other species of swampsnake and found one on my first trip there.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267774935

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