So far I am obsessed with observations but am willing to become an obsessive identifier but only plants, please, ok, and a handful of birds.
when your GF/hiking partner suddenly realizes you’ve, yet again, stopped to take a pic of some plant or bug that you’ve seen a thousand times before
…when you check the map to see where the taxon you want to put on an observation occurs, and then go on an hour-long side quest cleaning up mis-IDs of that taxon before actually putting the ID on that observation
That’s the lovely thing: you can pick what you’re comfortable with / what dings your chimes. Welcome to the Forum! (And to iNat, if you just set up your account there.)
You know that you’re obsessed with identifying when you go to look at the most common Odonata species in the US for a project, realize that there are a whole bunch of really weird vagrants at the bottom of the list, and decide to take on cleaning them out.
(I may not know what kind of dragonfly is in that photo, but it’s not hard to figure out that if the species the photographer decided on is restricted to the area around Kazakhstan, it’s probably not going to show up for a photo op in New Jersey!) ![]()
…when you type “bl”, “cc” or “mi” into the searchbar and it automatically gives the websites with the leafminer key (https://bladmineerders.nl) cranefly key (https://ccw.naturalis.nl) and general insect keys ( https://sites.google.com/view/mikes-insect-keys/mikes-insect-keys ) you use (in that order)
We always need more plant identifiers
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