{"id":82441,"date":"2025-07-22T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82441\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:06:12","slug":"the-most-observed-plants-animals-in-each-us-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82441\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Observed Plants &#038; Animals in Each US State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Observed Plants &amp; Animals in Each US State<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xkcd-plants-animals.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1029\" border=\"0\" alt=\"a hand-drawn map of the US labeled with tthe most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by iNaturalist users\"\/><\/p>\n<p>XKCD <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/3118\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mapped<\/a> the most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iNaturalist<\/a> users. I had no idea bumble bees were such a popularly observed animal \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/118970-Bombus-impatiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens)<\/a> is most-observed in Vermont, Wisconsin, Maine, Connecticut, Illinois, and Minnesota. Also popular: white-tailed deer, bison, milkweed, honeysuckle, and robins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Most Observed Plants &amp; Animals in Each US State XKCD mapped the most observed plant and animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-82441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114895387858604058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}