Submitted at: 12:47pm Tuesday 2nd July 2013
iSpot, the website for sharing and learning more about nature, has just captured its 250,000th observation. The honour is shared by simultaneous observations of a pair of malachite beetles seen near Farnborough in Surrey (UK) and a crab spider spotted waiting for insect prey to visit a wild gladiolus flower in the Western Cape of South Africa.
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