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 saw my first Steller Sea Lion a few days ago and it was so big I thought it was a whale of some sort at first! [Steller Sea Lion] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/316344268

I got my first Smoky Rubyspot yesterday!:nerd_face: [1000011215]

I went down to Disneyland this past weekend and on Saturday at the Rivers of America by Hungry Bear BBQ I got a shot of a Mexican amberwing. I had seen this species at Disneyland before but never got a shot so this was an iNat lifer. Mexican amberwing [image]

I saw one swimming around in Kachemak Bay this spring that I mistook as a whale at first. They are a lot bigger than they look when you see them out basking on rocks from a tour boat!

Well not this week but just today, observed the first inaturalist observation of Striped Wintergreen, Mealy Pixie Cup, Silverrod, Small Pussytoes, Bleeding Fairy Helmet, Blue Mistflower, Wavy Leafed Moss, Turban Cap Lichen, Indian Tobacco, Speckled Sharpshooter, Ebony Spleenwort in Greene County, PA…

[image] A boring pillbug . It’s a lifer only because my previous pillbug was a different species. I also observed a beetle, not yet identified, and my first marmorated bug of the season, which is not a lifer since I observed several of them last year.

How are they boring? They are so cool and reliably found almost anytime… love them

What is your Favorite Lifer from this week?

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LostInCR September 26, 2025, 12:19am 3031

This very cute and adorable Pachypodistes goeldii from Loreto, Ecuador. Fully equipped with pink wings and stilt legs. Plushies coming this christmas (j/k).

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/316626750

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