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With the adoption of multi-lens phone cameras allowing better zooming the general quality of insect observation photos has improved (some, there's still a lot o
by nemo 3y ago
With the adoption of multi-lens phone cameras allowing better zooming the general quality of insect observation photos has improved (some, there's still a lot of terrible photos). I actually started submitting a lot more insect observations in iNaturalist after I got an iPhone 12 and other folks on the forums have mentioned upgraded phone cameras have improved their observations and increased the range of what species they can submit. I'd love getting more zoom, there's micro-moths, lot of small aquatic inverts and things I'd be happy to be able to observe. Individuals do have some incentive to find new species over time to increase species counts, I'm up to 590 identified insect species and am trying to top my bird species count at 632. Improved cameras over time help improve model training and add species that are harder to get photos of as tech improves.
- s0rce 3y agoI submit most interesting insects I find, fun to learn about them. These are some of my favorites https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155914507 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155914507 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136708118 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136708118 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169121886 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169121886 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8443142 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8443142 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8445065 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8445065 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89986236 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89986236.
- hetspookjee 3y agoWhat camera do you use? This one is so nicely zoomed https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637 Almost looks like an image from an electron microscope the way the grass stands up.
- s0rce 3y agoJust an iphone, grass isn't real though.
- nemo 3y agoOh, tiger moth - nice! I have been working on my Lepidoptera for a while always love seeing those and sphinx moths are so cool. I'm up to six species of sphinx moths, the tessa sphinx is my favorite: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176100012 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176100012 Also that cottonwood dagger - whoah! I checked out your lifelist, you've found a lot of really interesting insect species, I'm in Austin and the differences are pretty dramatic and quite interesting. You can see my insect life list here: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/steven_bach?view=tree&tree_mode=full_taxonomy&taxon_id=47158 https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/steven_bach?view=tree&...
- s0rce 3y agoThat moth is really neat! The cottonwood dagger was what led me to inaturalist as I had no idea what it was. Been posting stuff since and learned a lot.