One of my favourite mushroom finds: the Blue Stain Fungus (Chlorociboria aeruginosa). It grows on rotting wood.
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A very small wasp from when the flowers were blooming.
I'm looking forward to the warmer weather and being able to get back out and looking for bugs again.
Unfurling fractals of a fern frond.
#plants #ferns #fronds #unfurling #spring #macroPhotography #fractal
My ground phlox (possibly Phlox subulata/moss phlox) has achieved blanket status.
I'm a sucker for mass blooms. A friend of mine has large swaths of this phlox & was kind enough to borrow me a cup 2 yrs ago. A cup that was 1.5' x 2' chunk that I then plopped down in a 1.5' x 2' space.
Easy peasy phlox carpet squee-sy.
(04/12/24)
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Portraits of some of the recent lichens I've met. My guesses as to IDs:
* Flavoparmelia caperata
* A nice moss that looks like asparagus tips, with Xanthoria parietina & physcia adscendens (?) growing through / around it
* Parmotrema, physcia & candelariella
* Caloplaca species
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Went out to feed the birds this a.m. & saw something "mounted" to a back porch support beam. Closer inspection revealed it was a very large #moth. My ID app suggests Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) with an average wingspan of 6". It was just chilling during the a.m. storms. I hoped it would open up but it just stayed motionless. It was quite dark so the pics aren't the best. Antennae are very cool!
(05/02/24)
#pollinators #insects #nature #MacroPhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText
Some lichen finds, plus (what I think might be) a slime mould
* Various crustose species on the back of a gravestone
* Slime mould (?) that appeared within a few minutes of wetting this old gate beam
* Patterns on lichen on an old wooden seat
* A cladonia species growing amongst moss on an old wooden fence
Edit: Consensus seems to be that it's not a slime mold, but likely a fungus. Still interesting!
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A couple of fly agarics (Amanita Muscaria) growing among blueberry shrubs
#fungifriday #photography #nature #naturephotography #mosstodon #macrophotography
A fern frond starting to unfurl
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Plants #Macro #MacroPhotography #Ferns
In mid-October, I took my ridiculous 4mm fisheye lens out to the forest.
It's honestly not bad for photographing mushrooms – uniquely enabling you to get both the mushroom and the rest of the forest in frame at the same time. And it's always fun to experiment.
#macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #photography #mosstodon #mushrooms #mushtodon #forest #woods #fall #autumn #lichensubscribe
Some lichen patterns. I particularly like how #3 and its 3D, overlapping lobes turned out, but then #4 has lovely shapes and colours. I like #2's demilitarised zones between colonies. And then #1's yellow blobs on black and white is pretty cool too. I guess they're all my favourite...
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Another new plant in our garden - these are the tips of the leaves of Titanopsis hugo-schlechteri (aka Jewel Plant or Living Rock). It's a cute little succulent with really interesting textures
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*DOOMSCROLLING CHECKPOINT*
Okay just stop. Breathe. Take your mind off the rapid collapse of US Democracy for just a few moments.
I'll help you. Here's some baby giant springtails, aren't they cute?
They don't understand human politics, they just eat fungi and logs and go to sleep. That must be nice for them.
Okay, off you go. Come back if you need to.
#Invertebrate #SoiBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Macrophotography #Collembola