We all have favorites, but on the other hand some taxa are particularly annoying: take mosquitoes for example. Does anyone have a least favorite taxa to see while you’re out making observations?

noooooooo, marine life is the best :(

yeah, I can definitely appreciate mosquitoes as cool little critters, but I mysteriously become less appreciative when a small swarm decides to circle my head for half an hour

Agreed :smiling_face_with_tear: Fish, Cnidarians, and everything else out there is suuuper cool and if anything underrated

I agree, fish is “supper” cool. :yum:

Honeybees. Nothing more disappointing than finding a promising stand of flowering plants and discovering that the hymenopteran visitors are all Apis mellifera rather than the wild bees you were hoping for. I really don’t like ticks, but here my issue is with seeing them after I have come back from …

I n terms of natives, I have been places and had lots of sandflies, mosquitos, and been covered in ticks a few times, but the bites I have generally found the most annoying is when you get covered in leeches and the bites just dont stop bleeding. I really should get some leech gear for next time I a…

Poison ivy. It’s abundant at both local spots I go to and I get to choose between getting a better look at X or avoiding the stuff.

What's your least favorite taxa to see while iNatting?

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jasonhernandez74 April 8, 2023, 12:57am 91

Anything road-killed. Especially if it is a species that I have never seen alive.

As Batty would say, “Humans can’t feel anything. They’re numb from the brain down.”

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What's your least favorite taxa to see while iNatting?

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