Hi hi; just wanted to chat and see how and why everyone personally uses INaturalist! Personally I started off to learn to ID birds. Now I’ve learned so much broad taxa/species all across the board and primarily in my state. I use INat now to basically track anything I can snap a picture of to help…

I use iNaturalist as an educational tool and to help me with identifying flora and fauna for my (website hobby - in my spare time) Ausemade.com.au - which has the main Flora and Fauna section and also a flora fauna section in Alice Springs and Central Australia (where I live). When I get help with …

Anything that is made to kill can’t be safe.

Having an expert confirm your “educated guess”, at best, is what attracted me to iNat, but then I discovered a lot of added features that I really loved. The one I used the most is: checking prior to my hikes/dives the search map to see what I can expect and wish to see. Such a better way to do it …

Additionally, I noticed than since I use iNat I give much more attention to common and “mundane” species and that’s one thing I really love about it.

I joined iNat because I am one of those people who always wants to know what everything is. Probably as a child I didn’t go around saying “Why? Why? Why?” all the time, but “What’s that? What’s that?” iNat is a great resource for supplementing my stacks of guidebooks and cache of online references. …

I love nature, and over the years picked up a habit of photographing every cool thing I come across and trying to learn what exactly it is. So when I found out that I can actually import all that data somewhere? And sort it into a thousand neat little categories? And add a pin on the map for each o…

[image] danly: Or ask “did you see anything you’ve never seen before, this week?” Well, you’ve just given me an idea for an icebreaker.

I am going to get very real here. I use iNat so I don’t go insane. I have been a caregiver to my severely brain injured spouse for 25 years. I love her more than anything is this world, which is why I am still her caregiver decades after her injury. But loving her doesn’t make it easier. Being a car…

25 years is a long time. A whole generation.

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adrien_ferrand October 2, 2025, 6:18am 53

Nice project and some lovely photos. That flower beetle is really something.

I wish I knew about iNaturalist when I was living in Australia (NSW). You live in a country with such an intriguing fauna! Carry on!

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