Except, H. axyridis has never faced any serious threat of dethronement (and it never needed to usurp anything either) :P
The next non-ladybeetles (after X. parietina) are the flat footed flies: Polyporivora polypori (25th), Protoclythia rufa (34th), Polyporivora picta (37th), and Polyporivora ornata (40th)
In comparision to my first post, where 4 out of the top 5 were Argiope spiders, it starts to shift more and more towards lycosoidea, which are my current focus.. at the moment since this year especially Tigrosa, and two already made it to my top list.
Realistically, at least two more Argiope are on their way out of my top ten, as well as the “spider-mallard” Araneus diadematus
Bees and flowers. No question about my interests here. And it keeps going like that pretty much all the way down, with the addition of the occasional wasp or bee-mimicking fly.
The species list doesn’t really reflect the proportion of my time spent on IDing each taxon. I spend the vast majority of my time working on hymenopterans, although periodically I will go through some of the local weeds that I am particularly fond of and clear out some of the “needs ID” backlog. But a huge percentage of my bee IDs (the thousands of times I have typed “Lasioglossum”) are not represented because they are not at species level, leaving honeybees to float to the top of the list.
All trees and shrubs unsurprisingly. I have to specify that about 22k out of these 82k observations I’ve identified are Casual grade, because they feature cultivated plants or inaccurate metadata.
i haven’t been IDing for long and tend to avoid adding IDs to observations already at RG - and several of these spiders have some very active IDers. i’m always happy when i get to ID a Dendroleon, considering my username…
If I compare my top ten today to that of 2,5 years ago when I started this thread, my focus shifted quite a bit.
Back then I was all into IDing Argiope spiders and half of my top ten was dedicated to these taxe with another two araneid spiders in the top list as well
Today I only rarely ID Argiope, as there is a (not so) new (anymore) and very engaged sheriff in town for those.. I usually just follow tags or rarely get a nostalgic moment and check some needs ID. Instead I am fully taken in by lycosoid and lately even lycosid spiders.. who would have thought. I always liked them but deemed them to hard to ID.. and in the end it is indeed only a small fraction of lycosid spiders that I can ID to species indeed, but as one can see, they keep myself busy enough to have send me even to the top of lycosid/lycosoid IDers up here
Here’s my new top 10. Honestly Auriculella diaphana does not deserve to be here, I still need to change some wrong “diaphana” IDs to perpusilla which is (hopefully) actually the correct identity of these snails.
The island endemics are: #1, #2, #3, #5, #8 and #9. So still 6 that are Pacific Island land snails. The first non-gastropod is the common dandelion at #42.