you can search for that by clicking on 'Observations with this field and value' from the observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18409302 [image: Screen Shot 2018-11-16 at 12.34.41 PM.png] and then adding a taxon or place filter on top of it https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=47208&field:Name%20of%20Associated%20Plant=82536 But looks like there's only one observation in iNat with that field and value On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM Marty Lucas wrote: > Looking for help doing a search of iNat for insects that have been > observed associating with a plant species. > > Most of my observations involve an insect associating with a plant > species. Most often, I know the plant species (or at least the genus) and > am working on identifying the insect species -- a pollinator, for example. > > For example, see: > > https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18409302 > > It a photograph of a small black beetle I observed associating with > (probably feeding on) Viola pedata blossoms. > > I'd like to search of iNaturalist for observations of beetles in > association with Viola pedata. > > Better yet to also be able to restrict by date and geographical location. > > Maybe this is obvious, but I didn't figure it out. Can anybody help? > > thanks, > Marty L. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iNaturalist" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to inaturalist+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to inaturalist@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/inaturalist. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -------------------------------------------------- Scott R. Loarie, Ph.D. Co-director, iNaturalist.org California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr San Francisco, CA 94118 --------------------------------------------------