Started the app today and its quite cool but my biggest gripe isnt with the app its the fact that I live in a deforested litter filled shithole in northern england and the only things iv found are 2 snails.
So like where do i find stuff
I think it's a porcelain mushroom, but the ID still needs to be confirmed.
I love when people take (safe) quirky shots for their observations. This one has immediately become a favourite
with 11 729 so more than twice as many observations overall, idk if this is a typical ratio, getting ids for everything is difficult. but im still really happy with these numbers, ive been using inat since 2024 and will be using it a lot more!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place\_id=any&user\_id=tritonalpestre&verifiable=any
The Bogong Moth (Agrotis infusa) is having a wonderful boom year with the number of iNat observations up from 5400 in July to over 10,000 in October! This is really fantastic news and encouraging. Congratulations to anyone who has contributed to their recovery in any way.
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Trigonisca discolor es una de las especies de abejas sin aguijón (meliponinos) más pequeñas del país (conocidas popularmente por su diminuto tamaño o como "hormigas con alas"). Aunque es una especie nativa reportada como endémica de Costa Rica, aún existen muchos vacíos de información sobre su distribución exacta y sus hábitos en nuestro territorio.
Para visibilizarla y aportar a su conocimiento científico, hemos creado un proyecto colaborativo en la app iNaturalist / Naturalista Costa Rica.
🔍 ¿Cómo puedes participar?
* Si ves una de estas pequeñas abejas o sus característicos nidos en tu jardín, finca o caminata, tómale una foto.
* Súbela a la app iNaturalist especificando la ubicación.
* ¡Listo! El sistema la sumará automáticamente a nuestro proyecto de ciencia ciudadana.
👉 Revisa y sigue el proyecto aquí:
https://costarica.inaturalist.org/projects/trigonisca-discolor
Cada registro cuenta para proteger y aprender de discolor
I wish it made me feel better like I always want it to, but I don't know why it just makes me feel worse.
Maybe it's because most of the animals I'm finding are introduced and invasive. So many slugs and snails that damage everything and are from different continents.
I got really happy when I found a couple of snails that might've been native, but all the common invasive garden snails there are just so many of them. I know I can't bring myself to kill them because I've tried in the past and it makes me feel so sick and guilty. And I can't think of any animal to give all the snails to (because I'm okay with feeding invasives to pet invasive spiders or mantises I keep specifically to prevent them from breeding, and to have a "more useful" way of getting rid of invasive small arthropods).
Snails and slugs are so hard to find predators for, and that's probably why they're so prolific. I know I could maybe have a leopard slug to help me, where I keep it contained and collect invasive molluscs for it, but if in doing so I decrease the population of leopard slugs (even though they're introduced), then NZ doesn't have any mollusc-eating molluscs to re-replace the leopard slugs.
I also am worried about giving any birds or mammals parasites by giving molluscs to them, because even if the birds/mammals are introduced, it will continue the cycle of hosts for the parasites, and i don't want that. I could give the molluscs to fish in a river, maybe keep 1 wild invasive fish to feed molluscs to, but you see how ridiculous all of this thinking is.
I am wondering if people feel this stressed as I feel, or at least the same type of stress. Even all the earthworms, centipedes, millipedes, woodlice, and skinks in gardens are introduced and replacing the native ones. And it really feels like we as a species will never get on top of this, and that there will always be introduced animals in every continent. But i don't want to sound so hopeless.