You try reviewing some observations of a genus you recently learned to identify, from a country you don’t usually review. And you find one observation that’s clearly not in that genus, but you’re puzzled what it could be.
And so, you spend two hours on a Saturday night going down a rabbit hole, trying to identify this photo, hampered by not being an entomologist and not having the technical vocabulary to properly describe the features you’re seeing. That rabbit hole includes going to the Explore page and scrolling through thumbnails of all of the nearly 5,000 beetle species found in that country (spoiler warning: that list of thumbnails displayed is not complete).
In the end, you find the right species, after Google’s AI fails to name the species from your description, but succeeds in naming the family. And the species has only 19 other observations on iNaturalist! That’s a plot twist that seems more cinematic than real life, but who’d make a film about taxonomy and identifying an insect photo? 