It happens a lot, almost every day. I’d have to give you a list of bugs from the dawn of my inat account.
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=47120&user_id=austin_ajit&view=species
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I thought you were talking about a specific one! 
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…when you’re so happy that you finally saw a monarch at the same time you had your camera that you don’t even worry about the fact that you are in HUGE trouble for accidentally tangling up the fishing lines after one kayak trip on the river (I unraveled it all later, but my dad still was annoyed)
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When you argue that it is easy to say “poecilognathus unimaculatus” to your fish-loving siblings and dad, who are quick to correct you when you say “crappie” incorrectly
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When you are on safari in Africa and two days in, your safari family are calling you over to photograph every little insect because they know you as “the bug lady”.
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But that’s good, right? You get WAAY more observations, and every little insect in Africa is probably something you haven’t seen.
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Right. I wish I was using iNaturalist when I lived in South Africa! Oh, regrets…
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It was good as everything was different to Northern Australia and I was in my element. I’m not an insect person in the sense of having any knowledge but I like taking photos of the little things because few people do and they often play just as important role as that big mammal or bird that everyone photographs. And I have more ‘first photos on iNat’ from insects and that is rewarding.
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I have yet to see one of those, or at least get an identifiable picture of one.
And there’s the difficulty with being into entomolgy: you might have a ‘first photo on iNat’ and not know it because nobody can identify it.
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https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/101524017
The critter that is the cause of me checking out tree trunks… I actually had forgotten to take my big zoom lens with me and had a macro lens on my camera. The billabong is a pretty tourist spot so my partner is snapping photos of birds. I’m looking for something to photograph and there is a tree less than 5m from the carpark. And there are these odd bugs that are quite pretty. There are thousands of tourists who visit that spot each year all taking pictures of birds, wallabies and crocodiles but not realising the really interesting and unusual stuff is a lot closer!
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Yeah, sometimes I wonder 
When people ask me how I spent the weekend, I try to explain to them why seeing a tiny brown beetle (of Subfamily Scarabaeinae) is exciting. I don’t often succeed :P
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… you obsessively text your friend to let her know that one more butterfly egg has hatched.
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Yup… and I can hear their eyes roll when I do…
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I should have noted this earlier, but aren’t you glad you’re not the “ladybug”??
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…a kid in one of your classes assert that ‘pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows’ is majestic. You say
MOTHS are majestic
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You find a really pretty stinkbug while mothing a photograph it. You later show it to your brother.
You: I found a really cool stinkbug at one of the lights!
Brother: Ooh, can I see?
You: shows brother the picture
Brother: Isn’t that just a regular stinkbug?
You: 
No stinkbug is a regular stinkbug
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You find yourself googling how to sex spiders (I’m a noob).
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