iNat Worldwide BioBlitz (iNat Summer Hunt) 2024's Journal

The first iNaturalist Summer Hunt has ended! Thank you for everyone who participated!!!
This was so much more of a success than I could have hoped for in the first year- 120,000 observations by 40 people is amazing!
While you all post your final observations from the timeframe, I will work on a more detailed statistics journal post- which should be ready by next week, to give everyone time to get the final observations in!

If you found a species that was a first recorded on iNat, like my observation of Machimus autumnalis or juan_sphex's observation of Fumariphilus versicolor, please share it in the comments! Also share rarer or uncommon observations that I can put in the stats post- some are difficult to find on my own.

Make sure to join for 2025's competition!

Hello! It has come to my attention that with the name "Summer hunt" and the time constraints given that the southern hemisphere is not included. Now, all related projects are part of the iNat Worldwide BioBlitz, which I hope is a title I can use. Each project will now have (iNat Summer Hunt) in it to show its former name for better identification of the project. Thank you!

Reminder to join the project for 2025's competition! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inat-worldwide-bioblitz-inat-summer-hunt-2025
Also, join the project to see competition totals! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inat-worldwide-bioblitz-inat-summer-hunt-totals