Just over a year after the project's inception, we have now hit 2000 observations as of this morning! An awesome achievement with over 560 contributors thus far. One week ago we also hit 200 project members, with that number now at 203.

Some notable 'newcomers' (relative to my last journal posts) include @gernotkunz's amazing macro shots of mostly European hoppers, @ellurasanctuary's comprehensive image sets of South Australian insects, and @matthew_connors' wide array of obscure inverts from tropical Queensland and Victoria.

In some exciting news, myself, @atronox, @neontetraploid and @gcwarbler recently wrote a short paper on the butterfly observations submitted to the project; it's currently in review in Journal of Insect Conservation, so fingers crossed that one gets through!

Also a gentle reminder to people that the project is for the first photos of living specimens anywhere, not just the first photos of said species to be uploaded to iNat.