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I want my backyard look like this

This is exactly what I use the app for!

I lean on iNaturalist all the time. I started collecting native, local seeds last year...with a little bit of success. Althoygh, living in E TN on the edge of an old growth beech, oak and maple forest (from 150-250 yrs old) hampers the growth of a lot of new species...lots of shade and the trees drink all of the water!! I don't really want to upset the balance, as if I could...the habitat is pretty much set. Succession, etc.

Makes sense, poorer areas are going to have fewer green areas and therefore fewer plants. And people struggling to survive don't have the time/resources to manage those things as much.

Maybe it's range is small- that's why considering environment on even a city-to-city level is important, and why doing things like using iNaturalist or native plant gardening can make a difference. Congrats to the student!

I want to know how he got that iNaturalist recent observations feed on his TV. I'd love 💗that as a screensaver on my TV or computer!

Really useful and informative, thank you!

should interview gregtasney idk how that man uploads so many observations and IDs

Any of you iNaturalist enthusiasts have a recommendation on a Macro clip on lens for phones?

I misidentified one and the comments were like... are you suuure? Because that would be a big deal since that species does not exist where i live. I was not. 😅

It’s important to report things that you think are out of the ordinary or not normal looking. Your State’s department of natural resources or department of agriculture are great resources to report things to. Make sure to take good pictures, what you find may be nothing but it also may be something. Early detection on invasive pests is absolutely crucial

I love the part when they say where the invasive species came from.

Considered the most comprehensive analysis between farming and the environment. The loss of wild areas to animal agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of vital wildlife. Without meat and dairy consumption, global farm land use could be reduced by more than 75%. An area equivalent to the U.S., China, EU, and Australia combined. All while, still feeding the world. (Source: Reducing foods environmental impacts through producers and consumers, Oxford University, 2018) By eliminating the needless demand for animal products, vital native biodiversity can start to restore by creating the greatest defense against anthropogenic invasive species.

Swell, yet another invasive. Thank you globalism.

Dutch Elm disease killed every Elm tree here, we don’t have any left.

Oh goodness…

Another gift from China. Will the U.S. _ever_ get serious about invasive species?

Only the strong will survive

Crowd science ❤

Those little guys are just making "selfies" on the leaves.😁

My favorite new feature on the iPhone is the built-in species identification feature in iPhotos…. And then I… slowly realize the implications of Apple/Google AI having direct access to pictures on my phone

Unfriendly actors are constantly trying to destroy the US by any means possible. This is no accident.

I didn't knew that licesing of photos was such a big deal to contributing to generate data. Thanks a lot for all the advice, you have now 1497 new observations that can be aded to gbif 😁😁😁

Uh oh, I know what's on the left menu for us next. They where pushing it hard awhile. Goylent Screen is bugs...

I love the app- I get helped through plant/insect identification and learning about locally native plants and which plants are truly local to my area, while also being able to contribute to science. Recently I was able to submit a listing for a species that only has one other sighting in the area, and the ID may not be right, but I'm pretty excited to find out.

Здравствуйте я поймала очень странного таракана, кому интересно свяжитесь со мной может это новый вид тараканов

I'd call it serpentine, rather than zig zag, but I'm not a scientist. At any rate, it's all our fault like usual and like usual, people will spend huge amounts of money fighting it and, like usual, will fail. Rinse and repeat.

I love the Seek and iNaturalist apps

For me "invasive species" are like immigrants, they can change environment they establish for sure, but usually every territory has its apex predator for flies and larva 🤞🏻

Filthy frank? After so long? Doing entomology videos?!

Before iNaturalist I didn't realize how little we actually know about moths. I do native plant gardening for insects and started using iNaturalist to identify plants and see if native insects are on my native plants... and through that learned that sometimes we don't know which caterpillars go to which moths, or what all of their possible host plants are. And that's kind of important because moths are a giant building block of many ecosystems!

Super cool, here's hoping it can be nipped in the bud. If it's not already a feature on the app, it would be cool for agencies to be able to submit a "Wanted" list of invasives for people to be encouraged to submit reports of to help track spread and management

Very fine work: observant motivated perception - for insects that's mostly vision, hearing, smell and pain receptors that give you the clues to go by and, yes, many more bound together in citizen science projects multiplying and cross verifying data is even better.

iNaturalist is so handy with that species and location search

Great work gonodactylus! Another example of how important iNaturalist is for ecological studies and preserving biodiversity

Good thing it was sent out for validation. Otherwise, someone would have bumped it back to genus saying that it could be a lookalike.

Good information. No background music, please.

I agree with the girl who found the second observation. I'm sad that they're here, but how cool to be someone to have found one of the first ones. Maybe it is still early enough to do something about it. Here's hoping.

So proud to be apart of this community!

Dr Scott Loarie the collection of the stats & what people are doing with it were amazing how govt dept are using the data. Invasive species & monitoring road kill or to help endangered species in grass roots projects. Well done!

Love iNaturalist! 👍❤️

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I work for a public agency in Italy that deals with the verification of the impacts on biodiversity generated by new infrastructures (roads, highways, railways, ...). Often the data of iNaturalist are an indispensable source of data in the absence of other databases; unfortunately in many cases , the geolocalization datas (of the presence of threatened species) are dispersed over a square of several kilometers on each side. For reasons of public utility, with due agreements, is it possible to obtain access to the exact geolocalizations?

I love diversity ❤

Thats a LIFE !!! I Love as well going to the mountain, enjoy nature!

Thank you for recording this and making it available to those of us who found a 4am (in New Zealand) viewing time a little too challenging!

Thank you for making the recording and slides available. I found the presentation very useful. Been using iNat since 2014.

This is presently the regular largest platform for posting. However, as a 71 y/o who has been involved with butterflies since age 8 and was a Field Biologist for 20 years with permits n Calif gnatcatcher, Least Bell's vireo, Laguna Mountains Skipper, Quino Checkerspot Butterfly, Hermes Copper Butterfly; I find it frustrating that some would question my butterfly IDs. I had a collection with my husband of ~12,000 specimens of insects and photos of over 9,000 specimens. I would send all of my specimens an/or photos to those who have PHDs in insect families. These Phd's keyed my specimens or came to my home and keyed them out. When posting on iNaturalist, I got frustrated with iNaturalist 'experts' questioning or changing my ID. When I would contact them most would open a dialogue, I would explain and provide names of my experts and provide emails and they would not allow me to change back. iNaturalist has good experts but if iNaturalist is not allow regional experts that are not part of iNaturalist you loose accurate posting. I consider myself a teacher since I am no longer capable to be in the field dues to a disabling spinal cord conditions.

Camera tip from my side. I use pro mode a lot when taking photos of small things with a phone. Focus can jump widely when on the edge of the minimal focus distance. Setting focus to manual and adjusting the distance to get things in focus makes things a lot easier when trying to get the closest most high quality shot on your phone.

Good meet and presentation. I am working in Guatemala to help other peoples how to use iNaturalist. And doing some monitoring of the jaguar and preys on the Mayan Biosphere Reserve in Peten, Guatemala through citizen science which is aproject on iNaturalist.