When you realize that this post was started in April, 2019, it is still going! I don’t think it will ever end! It’s probably the longest running post ever! SEVEN YEARS FOLKS! (caps for emphasis) Obviously every account is true because “we saw it on the internet!” 
. Keep them coming!
When you don’t judge a beautiful day by whether it’s sunny but by whether there are a lot of insects out.
True, but personally, I’ve never enjoyed sunny days as much as cloudy days. I do definitely judge a day by how many animals are out, though. 
Fortunately for us folks in India the iNat maintenance almost always happens when it’s nightime over here, so most often I can sleep through one
I saw my ex on iNaturalist yesterday, we started to use it after we broke up serval years ago. Glad to know she is still the curious girl. We used to go scuba diving, and I upload the pics we took to iNat and Identified about 300 kind of fishes and 35 kind of corals(both RG level). That’s my start to use iNat.
…when you lament that you can’t take your macro lens to school, because the bugs are so much cooler there (symphylans, poduromorphs, Campodea, all sorts of neat flies and wasps…)
…when you get your mum to drive you somewhere (I’m a minor, hence why I can’t drive there myself) specifically for ONE insect species (Meloe violaceus, specifically)
…when you reminisce on the cool bugs you saw years ago before you knew of iNat (like a stick insect I saw on the front wall when I was really young)
…when you get so many observations of a species you quit taking pictures unless they’re next to something you do want a pic of (orthoclad midges are especially guilty of this)
…when you’re planning to make a Berlese funnel with tupperware and window-mesh, so you can get more of the cool soil mesofauna from school (especially those annoying pauropods that keep escaping into the dirt before you can get a picture)
…when you go on walks solely because there’s probably lifer insects in the area (unfortunately the nearest spot is in the awkward situation of “a pain to walk there, but still too close to be worth driving”)
…when you go up to neighbours’ houses to check for anything in their front gardens, then your mum tells you not to do it again without asking them first (fair point, since someone going up to your house with a camera is a bit suspicious)
I used to do this for orchids - now that I can drive I get to drive hundreds of kms into the middle of nowhere to look for one species.
Bicycles, I say. Bicycles.
When all the different insects, spiders etc are always hanging around the one workplace location where mobile phones and cameras are not permitted. Frustration!
and this is why i’m getting my drivers license asap lol
…when you’re staring at the homepage at 1 am wishing you had photos to upload
…when you still feel satisfied after a day of herping even if you’ve only gotten 30 pictures of the same species you’ve already observed a hundred times. i just think fence lizards are neat lol
…when you cancel plans in preparation for cnc
Another:
…when you get excited about study leave for exams because you get more time to see bugs, but also worried because exams.
…when you’re excited for your upcoming Europe roadtrip because you might finally figure out what that mystery grasshopper you saw a bunch of in Switzerland was
I’m waiting for the time when a neibourgh looks out their window and begins to wonder why there’s a kid with a camera roaming around his yard just about everyday.
The insects at your workplace location are more fascinating precisely because cameras are not allowed there.
… when you feel something on your head, brush it off, get stung, yell, and grab your camera to take a picture. I was not the only person who brought a camera to the tree ID class that happened that afternoon, but AFAIK I was the only iNatter in the class.
when you absolutely crush a basic bird Id game and impress your teacher with how good you are at it
maybe you’ve already seen this, but this DIY berlese blog post might be helpful, or at least provide some tips.
Thisss, I just did that 2 days ago with poison hemlock lol
The first phrase you learn in a foreign language is “blurry photo, please delete”
@duch