This right here, haha
It tends to get on the nerves of literally anyone if I decide to go out with them, can’t even go to a restaurant with friends without them questioning my affinity with staring at the plants outside.
I can understand why people would absolutely FEAR going out with me to a forest reserve then. Lol.
. . . you can tell you’re currently living in the US, because when you type “b” into your browser, up comes “bugguide.net”–not “boldsystems.org” :P
You see one far away living friend joining a messenger, and as you haven’t written to him for a few months, you go on with it…
… and of course you share your newest insect observation with him, as the beginning of the conversation…
After a moment you get a picture of a dragon fly from him…
To make it short…, I worked out the story behind:
He took a photo of a dragon fly, cause another friend had sent him pictures of spiders…
I know these pictures of spiders very well … cause, I am the reason for this pictures.
I had sent her a lot of insect observations and at one time a lot of spiders… And so she took pictures of spiders for me, cause I hadn’t seen that Species in my area… even if she hates spiders… laugh
And the same pictures she sent to the friend who finally took that dragon fly picture.
So, I could feel… the butterfly using his wings and influence the world!!
Such a great feeling, when it comes back to you!
…you realize you became the top of a project just by joining it.
…you start identifying plants on the side of the road while you drive.
…you show your pictures of flowers to random people.
whether they are interested and cooperative is a separate question. also, mostly irrelevant :)
I just don’t understand it. Who wouldn’t be interested in the growing regions of swampland flowers?
they should just be happy that what you’re showing them is flowers…another of us in this group is likely forcing our photos of phytoplasmosis, pholcus, planarians and scat (was gonna say poop for the alliteration but my compulsion towards accuracy won over aesthetics, but now I’ve said too much) 
After having searched up all of these apart from the scat… Well, I’m really not sure how I would respond to a stranger showing that to me in all honesty.
Telling them how Pholcus is an overlooked genus and what meant to be 2 species is actually around 7 and that there’s a reason to love them, cause females show their epigyne easily for you to id them. XD
You read this entire post and all of the comments for fun. Also, when going to the iNaturalist website is the best part of your day!
And this…
Unfortunately, nobody will be able to identify the snake which bite into the bags on my bike (instead of my …) from this photo:
When you encourage your Audubon chapter to promote iNat to get county observations up.
That is so true for me! When I was in the the 4th - 9th grade a lot of times, my mom would get pretty annoyed when instead of reading the next section or two of my chapter book, I read an entire field guide! :)
That’s me a lot of the time! Though sometimes for me this type of thing happens…
ME… “hey! check out this cool picture I got of Mitchella Repens!”
SOME PEOPLE… “who’s she?”
Then I remember that I’m the one that I know who knows what that is.
Is that an actual selling point on a resume?
I was going to say: you get frustrated when your observation sits at “needs ID” forever, even though you keyed it out to species, ID’ed it as such, AND wrote extensive notes tracing out the steps taken to key it out. Like this one
I sure hope so because I’ve sunk so many hours into this website it may as well be a part-time job 
jk I love iNat and all of you (;
Ha! I’m also friends with Mitchella, she’s rather quiet, lays low and is a little creepy but still super cool. 
Yes, me! I am always game to photograph and a try to ID Powdery Mildews. Many of them are species-specific, but not all of them – some attack a large range of plants.
Please do ping me if there are mollusk shell observations that need an ID!
I would be very happy to look.
Woolly Lousewort is my new cuss phrase. LOL!