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xkcd #3118: iNaturalist Animals and Plants
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Washington, DC: Eastern gray squirrel, Amur honeysuckle. Puerto Rico: Crested anole, sea grape. US as a whole: Mallard, eastern poison ivy.
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A ponderosa is more observed in Oregon than a Doug fir?
Most reported. When you see X everyday, you’ll make a note of the few times you see Y
People usually don’t log stuff that they see every day. So a person who lives in Oregon (statistically more likely to be in doug-fir country) goes east and notices that a different tree predominates and they want to know what it is, they’ll log it.
Personally, I log stuff that I don’t normally see cause there’s a chance that it’s either: a rare native plant, a native plant on the edge of its range, or a non-native. Those are all things that I’m less likely to know off the top of my head, and I think it’s probably more important to tag for scientific purposes.
I am one of the people reporting the spotted lantern fly in NJ, alas. I’ll try and talk about the rabbits more to change the stats!
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Common milkweed really living up to the name in the midwest