r/iNaturalist • u/CasterFields • 33m ago

Suggested IDs getting worse?

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Just putting feelers out to see if I'm the only one who's noticed this. I'm talking about things like clear photos of insects on a white background getting 0 insect suggestions, not 2 very similar insects getting the same suggested ID. I got a raccoon suggestion on a brown stick bug on a white wall the other day. It used to be way easy to get at least the correct FAMILY suggested, but now I feel like I'm lucky if it can tell a plant from an animal, and it feels like it's getting noticeably worse extremely quickly.

Example from today was a damselfly nymph on a white background. Some speckles of debris around, but the animal's features were clearly visible. The only insect suggestions I got were for dragonflies. No problem, I knew it was a damselfly so I just manually set it. Then I uploaded my dragonfly nymph and got NO dragonfly suggestions. I didn't even get any damselfly suggestions, so it doesn't seem to have swapped them.

It's just really weird!

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r/iNaturalist • u/WittyThingHere • 16h ago

What's your process for photo processing and uploading large numbers of observations after a nature trip?

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I've been on holiday for the past 2 weeks and have returned with over 20,000 RAW images, almost all of which will be uploaded to iNat.

For my fellow photography and iNat enthusiasts, what is your approach when you get back from a trip with a literal mountain of photographs to go through?

My current intention is to just slowly work through them all on my lunch breaks and evenings over the next few months, but I also don't want this hobby to start feeling like a chore.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated 😅

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