this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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What is this thing?

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It’s about 2-3mm in length. Central European location.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I highly recommend submitting observations of unknown animals/plants to inaturalist.org: you can get a very reasonable software guess, informed identifications from other people (possibly those specializing in that kind of creature), and contribute to science at the same time!

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh hell yeah, that's what I've been using Google lens for like, half the time, and I'd much rather do something like this

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They have an app called Seek that I use all the time!