🐛 Polymerus unifasciatus

📅 Observed on 2024-06-20

👤 By: mangoblatt

📌 Location: Marburg-Schröck Bürgerhaus, 35043 Marburg, Deutschland

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263861634

📷 Photo credits: no rights reserved

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerus_unifasciatus

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Entomology #Insects

A collection of things often mistaken for eggs. What can be mistaken for eggs? Lots of things!

https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/82165-things-often-mistaken-for-eggs

#iNaturalist #NaturalHistory #nature

Here's Scott Loarie from #iNaturalist giving a TED talk this year.

Scott leads with the incredible rediscovery of the New Zealand frosted phoenix moth, a large distinctive moth that was feared extinct. That is, until one was photographed and uploaded to iNat by a Swedish birder chasing kiwi on a holiday in New Zealand's Stewart Island.

As Scott says in his talk, there are not nearly enough professional biologists to keep up with documenting the many changes in the natural world. Everyone can play a role in understanding how the species are faring in their local ecosystems.

https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_loarie_the_surprising_power_of_your_nature_photos

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/202565126

#nature #CitizenScience

@nytpu

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291539117

#RedTailedHawk #Bird #Aves #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #inaturalist #Tulsa #Oklahoma

🐛 Artigisa melanephele

📅 Observed on 2024-06-19

👤 By: williambrockelsby

📌 Location: 46 Mana Street, Vogeltown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256434772

📷 Photo credits: (c) William Brockelsby, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artigisa_melanephele

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Entomology #Insects

What Counts as Wild? On Doves, Junglefowl, and Birding Semantics in the Grenadines

While in Bequia, I saw, heard, and photographed African Collared-Doves. In St. Vincent, I encountered Eurasian Collared-Doves, both vocal and visible. In both cases, Merlin ID instantly recognised them—no disclaimers, no qualifiers. Just birds. Wild ones, apparently. What I didn’t see were Red Junglefowl. But I heard them. Their crowing echoed from hillsides and yards,…

https://islandinthenet.com/what-counts-as-wild-on-doves-junglefowl-and-birding-semantics-in-the-grenadines/

🦎 Anolis punctatus (Amazon Green Anole)

📅 Observed on 2024-06-19

👤 By: isaac_krone

📌 Location: Manú Province, Peru

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265362025

📷 Photo credits: (c) Isaac Krone, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_punctatus

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Herpetology #Reptiles

@RolfAE Tolle Aktion. Ich hätte mir allerdings gewünscht, dass eine andere App als das amerikanische iNaturalist nutzbar gewesen wäre. iNaturalist ist durch die erzwungene Anmeldung über Google (die sich mit ein paar Tricks noch umgehen lässt) und die erzwungene Weiterleitung der Daten in die USA nämlich nicht DGSVO-konform. Und somit teurer als z.B. das datensparsame ObsIdentify aus den Niederlanden.

#iNaturalist #Obsidentify

@JenniferJorgenson PSA: even if you don't have photographs worthy of magazine covers 👍✊🤘 I hope people will contribute pollinator images to crowdsourced nature observation platforms like #iNaturalist (Pollinator decline is a very serious problem.) A clip-on close-up "macro" lens can help you get closer than your built-in lens. Caveat: these buggers can move *very* quickly.

🌿 Hordeum jubatum (Foxtail Barley)

📅 Observed on 2024-06-19

👤 By: eric-schmitty

📌 Location: Juneau Town, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254845781

📷 Photo credits: (c) Eric Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hordeum_jubatum

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Plants #Bloomscrolling

🐛 Trichius fasciatus (Eurasian Bee Beetle)

📅 Observed on 2024-06-19

👤 By: sam_biotech

📌 Location: Респ. Башкортостан, Россия, 453001

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/279507241

📷 Photo credits: (c) Самуил М., some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichius_fasciatus

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Entomology #Insects

Acho as preocupações muito consistentes.

É difícil imaginar uma forma de usar IA generativa nesse contexto sem roubar trabalho humano e sem riscos grandes de gerar imprecisões 😒

Nem tô levando em consideração as intenções do Google ou o custo / benefício ambiental 🧐

#INaturalist #IAGPT

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/

🐸 Pseudophilautus wynaadensis (Waynad bush frog)

📅 Observed on 2024-06-18

👤 By: oleg_kosterin

📌 Location: India, Kerala, Idukki District, Pambumkayam village

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256398876

📷 Photo credits: (c) Oleg Kosterin, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudophilautus_wynaadensis

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Herpetology

Took me three days to notice that this glasswing has been caught by an owlfly larva :P I did notice the brown spot in front, but assumed it might be some honey-dew producing insect the glasswing is visiting… #Ecuador #biodiversity #iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

@researchbuzz @llewelly @drdrowland @springdiesel @douglasvb @ai6yr @marcprecipice #iNaturalist recently announced a grant from Google to make a demo incorporating generative AI in its computer vision species identification model (which is already severely unreliable for many taxa). It was received…poorly (see the comments section). https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions

Scary finding today in my garden:
The body of a dead slow worm (Anguis veronensis) was still "beating", but I found out it was infested by small millipedes (Blaniulus guttulatus) and maggots 😅

Well, this is the circle of life, recycle and get recycled ♻️
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291182942

#millipedes #Diplopoda #Anguidae #Reptilia #iNaturalist

🐦 Treron affinis (Gray-fronted Green-Pigeon)

📅 Observed on 2024-06-18

👤 By: afsarnayakkan

📌 Location: 27J4+WMM, Madayi Para, Pazhayangadi, Kerala 670303, India

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253775012

📷 Photo credits: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY)

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-fronted_green_pigeon

#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Birds

Google bribes #iNaturalist to use generative AI—volunteers quit in outrage
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

iNaturalist is reported to claim that the grant won't actually be used for generative AI but people are sceptical of the details so far, see thread here for discussion
https://awful.systems/post/4714650