Share us your favourite photos you took from this week! I was thinking we could make a poll at the end of the week for the “best” photo uploaded to this topic of that week. Limit of one entry per user per week
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Something like that? Unfortunately, I don’t know how to organize a poll here. Should everyone post their one best observation of the week, or several that they consider the best?
Observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/273468169
I found this strangely deviant Bellis perennis today while looking for insects. This species is normally quite boring, as it’s extremely common and found almost worldwide. However, I’ve never seen a mutation like this before. Computer vision is also overwhelmed and suggests two Erigeron species in its first two suggestions. The plant is growing on one of the lawns in the Marburg Botanical Garden, among normal plants of the species. Thousands upon thousands of Bellis perennis plants are currently blooming there, and only one of them appears to have this mutation.
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Just a note that the forum isn’t intended to serve as a primary venue for photo sharing. Photos can take up a lot of space/memory on the forum plan, which iNat pays for. If you’re going to post photos, please restrict to a couple of photos per post and choose the “smaller” sizes so they use less memory (ideally <500kb/photo). Thanks!
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We can always add links to observations!
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Super cool! I think I might be able to make a poll, I have seen it done before in other topics I believe!
Thanks for letting me know! Is it a bad idea then to go ahead with this topic?
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There are other topics with lots of photos which are allowed but not necessarily encouraged. So it should be ok as long as folks don’t add a ton of large photos. Posting links to observations is totally fine as long as it isn’t asking for ID help.
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Thank you! I will update the topic
(Sorry I post a photo because I didn’t make an observation because this leek is planted.)
Made it small so to not take up space.
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A scrum of water striders. I believe there are seven individuals involved, three pairs and one singleton. Thats 42 legs plus 14 antennae. They were able to pile up and then disentangle themselves in a matter of seconds.
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Great shot! I tried photographing one on water and only got fuzzzy shots and a headache from being upside down too long!
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Probably my best this week, but definetely my favorite: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/272459785
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It was hard to decide on one best photo because several from my salt marsh trip really please me. But I think I’m going to go with this one, from the maritime forest back of the salt marsh. I like the play of colors of the lichens and bark.
I actually used this in two obervations, one for the orangish lichen, one for the gray-green
common lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes). This observation is for the orangish one.
common lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes). This observation is for the gray-green one.
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I have a few nice photos from this past week! this grousewinged backswimmer bit me when I was removing it from my net, but I managed to get it to hold still in a petri dish for a moment to get a decent photo. The other one was this caddisfly larva who used a wide variety of materials to construct its case.
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