I’ve had some funny iNat-related experiences and it made me laugh to think of how many positive, and often quite funny effects my usage has had on my life. Go ahead and finish the topic title sentence with your own endings. Here are some of mine to start: You know you’re seriously into iNat when …

Mountain lion . . . in the prairies. It’s like the prairie moose . . . a mythical creature that many believe does not exist! :wink:

You start photographing mosquitoes instead of killing them when they bite you (this has not happened to me yet). A family member tells you to throw an insect out the door and you come armed with a camera.

It will! You may let several bites happen in the service of iNat! :rofl:

When you are recording insect sounds while watching the fireworks: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227227983

I know it’s happened to me! https://inaturalist.ca/observations/193261387

[image] oksanaetal: You start photographing mosquitoes instead of killing them when they bite you (this has not happened to me yet). Holds also true with Tabanidae, see observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/228407920

You put way too much effort into photographing an insect or other animal under poor lighting conditions because it might be identifiable. Like I had a tripod setup trying to take a picture of a cricket at night when I was in the Philippines.

y’all insect specialists especially are really on another level with your pictures. Hats off o7

I am very much not an insect specialist, I just know insects are a pain to ID, and there’s a ton of them in the Philippines. As far as I’m concerned, any insect I find while traveling is probably new and might possibly be an endemic, so do whatever you can.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/233426362 same here :)

You know you're seriously into iNat when

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bernhard_hiller August 14, 2024, 6:53am 1621

Holds also true with Tabanidae, see observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/228407920

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