You know you're seriously into iNat when

[broacher]

I do… understand where you’re coming from there. My test was at a funeral. It’s tough to handle natural and social observances at the same time.

[sawyer_n_a_dawson]

…when my mom pulls my pants out of the dryer, and she asks what on earth the pockets are full of.
I tell her they’re full of discarded fishing line that I’ve taken off the riverbank.

[naturespotter]

When you realize a pumpkin is a fruit.

[eyekosaeder]

…you constantly need to resist the urge to impose your identifying-skills upon non-consenting and unsuspecting people on other platforms who just want to share a photo of that cool bug they saw and don’t care what it’s called.

[oksanaetal]

And so is a mushroom or pinecone… “Fruiting body”

[oksanaetal]

Wait, there are other ways to buy clothes?

[isopodguy]

…when you begin regularly having dreams about your camera breaking down right when your photographing the coolest organism.

[danly]

Dreams - Arghh! Last night I dreamt that there was an amazing dragonfly in my house, something no one has ever seen before, but just as I was about to photograph it, the power went out. (I guess dream-phones can’t take photos in the dark)
That’s what comes from spending too much time reading threads like these:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/er-mi-casa-es-su-casa-i-guess/59959
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-your-favorite-lifer-from-this-week/24219
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rarest-finds-on-inaturalist/16195/1

[isopodguy]

In one of my dreams, I was about to photograph a hermit crab that was part chiton when my camera suddenly wouldn’t open. I had to run to this little shed building and try to fix it, but when I came back to the hermit crab I realized that I had left the camera back in the shed and that hermit crabs don’t usually have giant suction cups for feet like chitons.

[Thunderhead]

Maybe you shouldn’t iNat right before bed…

[phma]

you see a flea on your bedsheet, reach over carefully so as not to disturb it, grab your camera, and take two pictures. The flea then jumps.

[ra_teo]

When you open World Guessr just to find birds :))

[Vermfly]

Reminds me of Google Streetview Birding. There’s a whole bunch of people trying to find as many of the world’s bird species on just Google Streetview images. I found the first verifiable Pink-bellied (Lewis’s) Woodpecker on there.

[sawyer_n_a_dawson]

…when I can’t locate my house on the Observation Map because it’s covered by my observation markers.

[jasonhernandez74]

@sawyer_n_a_dawson

I can’t locate my house on the Observation Map

I would have obscured those.

[Vermfly]

That’s hilarious. My entire block is so covered in pins that you can barely see any of the houses around mine. Lol.

[sawyer_n_a_dawson]

@jasonhernandez74

I would have obscured those

Why is that? Privacy?

Even for eBird checklists I submit for my yard, I enter my home address under “Location”, like most people do.

[liamodo]

check out inatguessr!

[naturespotter]

When you walk in a forest and you recognize most plant species.

[dgwdoesthings]

Personal choice, I also obscure around my home, even though iNat is a nice community it is generally not a good idea to publicize where you live online.
It opens up options for malicious people, while I am not one I can think of countless ways it could be used against you, even though you might not worry about that.