I decided to make a list of all the Facebook identification groups I normally use when trying to identify the things I photograph. The idea is that this list can be useful to other iNaturalist users, so I’m also looking for new suggestions of groups to add to the list. So if you use any other Facebo…

Please add: Mushrooms Xylaria Hongos de Colombia (Colombia) Plants Identificación de plantas colombianas (Colombia) Epidendrum Orchids Epidendrum (Latin America)

Entomology is a good group. - global There are a number that aren’t strictly ID groups, but that are often helpful and mostly accurate: Native plants of New England California Native Plants Wild Snakes: education and discussion Planet Lycopod Ferns, Lichens, and Mosses Mushrooms, Fungi, and Sli…

Western Palearctic Gulls and North American Gulls also there’re good groups about jaegers and terns, but I’m not in them.

@nicolasr @marina_gorbunova @earthknight Just added some of your suggestions to the list, thank you very much! I didn’t add all of them because I’m still trying to decide how to incorporate the “non-ID” oriented groups on the list. Perhaps I’ll make another section for those “non-ID” groups, but I’m…

Indigenous Flowering Plants of Southern Africa

Groups in German language: Mitteleuropäische Wespen Schaben - Cockroaches Heuschrecken-Freunde Libellen - Freunde Spinnen + Spinnentiere + Bestimmung Pflanzenbestimmung / Botanik-Gemeinschaft Schleimpilze (Eumycetozoa/Mycetozoa) Wer bin ich? Insekten, Spinnen und andere Gliederfüßer Assel-F…

@DianaStuder @ppinat just added your suggestions, thank you very much!

I checked out the “Spider Identification Page” and it was about 50% viral videos/memes/spam and the remainder was a lot of wrong IDs. So not sure if I would recommend that page for accurate IDs. Some suggestions instead: North American Spider Identification (North America) Arachnology (All Ara…

Antman’s Hill (various terrestrial arthropods, mostly US) is also good for identification, and they have a separate Schoolhouse group designed for educational use directed more toward kids.

@jgw_atx thank you for the suggestions and the review on the group. I still had no time to check the groups one by one (I haven’t used some of the ones I shared in a long long time). I’ll try to review every group in the near future. Also, thanks to @jonathan142 for the suggestion

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