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Hello iNaturalists,
By observing, you are making a change. You're contributing to ideas of biodiversity and ideas of populations. You help scientists gain ideas and make change. You are all scientists. We could lose our earth without you.
But you can make a difference in other ways, too!
Join the Drawdown EcoChallenge which looks for amazing solutions to climate change.
Want to join?
Join at drawdown.ecochallenge.org
This ends on December 28th, 2021.
Thanks for your time and consideration!

Hey everyone! Today is World Photo Day, according to holidayscalendar.com so let's give it up for the iNaturalists all over who are taking photos all the time to support science.
What was your latest observation? Mine was a green lacewing that I saw while eating dinner. It was on my window, like some flies and other similar creatures that come there. Something I'm wondering about.
But what was your probably-best photo or most spectacular observation? Share that, too. Looking through all my observations, which I'm adding here, a cabbage white which some delightfully helpful naturalist told me was mating. And a gray bird grasshopper juvenile, a shot that I think was one of my best. I can also see it as it was very close up and recent. I saw the adult in my yard for a while, and saw a bunch of these on my pepper plant. And I can see these in the yard sometimes. I hope I'll find adults again as they grow up...and lay eggs again...
My most spectacular, though? Has to be an urbane digger bee that keeps coming to visit me. What a magical bee when I thought there was only one species I could see in my backyard.
I want to hear what YOURS are on this World Photo Day.
And I want to hear from iNaturalists who DO NOT use photos, what it's like and how they do it.
Happy World Photo Day, friends!

Thanks to all the observers who've gotten all the observations of honeybees across the world. Being in the US, I've gotten many observations of the non-native Western Honeybee, which is doing well, although I've seen it come to the ground apparently in search of water, according to other iNaturalists (thank you!), in really hot times. Right now it's doing a rare rain and I'm seeing less bees in my yard...except of course, some honeybees are still here.
Tell me about your memorable honeybee experiences!
What I remember has to do with community. We had a long discussion in the comments of one of my honeybee observations about what the bees are doing on the ground, concluding that they're looking for water, and that you should give them a place to land if you set water out for them (which is a nice idea!). But then someone else joined in and said that this would be encouraging invasive species, which is something I hadn't thought about before. So thanks to everyone who helped with that!
And another time I talked about honeybees with the community is when I saw some bees come to the flowers (many native) in my yard and they seemed to fly or look a bit different than the other honeybees which I had gotten used to. So I thought, these are different. But two more people told me that the only honeybee in the Western hemisphere is...the western honeybee. They also gave me some recommended reading. As you can see, I'm not the most experienced, but I'd love to learn.
Let's give it up for World Honeybee Day!
Just one more thing: those outside the western hemisphere, I would love to find out about what honeybees you've seen. I'm very interested in this!
Have a great World Honeybee Day.
Explore more: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=538904

Hello iNaturalists,
By observing, you are making a change. You're contributing to ideas of biodiversity and ideas of populations. You help scientists gain ideas and make change. You are all scientists. We could lose our earth without you.
But you can make a difference in other ways, too!
Join the Drawdown EcoChallenge which looks for amazing solutions to climate change.
Want to join?
Join at drawdown.ecochallenge.org
This ends on December 28th, 2021.
Thanks for your time and consideration!

Sometimes one will find an oceanic whitetip shark devouring some fish and squid in the ocean, or a whale shark scooping up krill. You may say that these are selective choices.
How, then, did these animals make those choices?
That can be hard to piece together. For sure! (those of you who have an answer, I want to hear it)
It may have to do with preferences, or something similar.
But why isn't the anteater going after flies and the whale shark after fish?
Because, the anteater can't catch the flies. It sees the flies, sure, and would like to catch them, but settles on what it CAN catch. Over time, the species may stop looking at them and evolve to GET THE MOST out of the ants and termites.
What, then, is evolution?
Evolution may be a concept (for me) hard to grasp, but it is little by little. I'm still having trouble understanding brain movements (as I heard in a recent live call-in show about evolving bird brains), but I can understand and help you understand it as I think about it philosophically and scientifically every day.
Mutations in the below-understanding level atoms lead to new species, and our bodies begin to shift with our daily activity. We develop shortcuts and so much more. After running in the long term, you become used to it and develop better muscles. Think about that yourself.