When the traffic app interrupts the Good part of the song so now you gotta start the whole song over

I don’t know if it’s supposed to be like that, but it sure looks interesting. #trees #naturephotography

Heavily foaming tree in the rain. Explanations vary from bacteria living off tree sap to this being a natural soap accumulated on the tree and washed down. #forest #naturephotography

Rose of the forest #forest #naturephotography

The forest was nice and quiet, and had a thick carpet of moss. #forest #naturephotography

A lovely little colony of Capillary Threadmoss (Bryum capillare). On our Village Hall garden wall, Devon. tinyurl.com/bryum-capill... #moss #bryophyte

Wet moss. I like going to the forest in the rain. #moss #naturephotography

It's 1am what am I doing

#lichen #moss #naturephotography

So fluffy you almost want to pet it. Fox moth caterpillar. #insects #moths #naturephotography

A perfect red-belted conk. #fungifriends #naturephotography

#fungifriends #naturephotography

A rosette of yellowing curtain crust (Stereum subtomentosum). #fungifriends

Striped tinder fungus. Their patterns sometimes remind me of the stripes on Jupiter. #fungifriends

Nobody likes Hypoxylon fungi but I think they look kind of cool with all their little bumps and the patterns they form on wood. #fungifriends #moss

Found another tree with ripples. #forest #naturephotography #moss

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Cladonia #lichen. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 2cm, left to right. #fungi #fungifriends #botany #mycology

Madeira chaffinch male, resting after eating. #birds #madeira

It Dutch, we call these “katjes”, meaning little cats, or kittens. #forest #naturephotography

Moss spore pods. #moss #naturephotography

Twisted tree. #forest #naturephotography

Hairy turkey tail (Trametes hirsuta) on a tree root. #fungifriends

cross-checking weevil IDs on iNat, noticing that many of the larger molytines resemble a small, inconvenienced man

Deer hair rubbed off on rough tree bark. #forest #naturephotography

Flowering moss. #moss #forest #naturephotography

This mosquito on my (dirty) window has cool feathery antennas. #invertebrates #insects #diptera

Tree 👀 #naturephotography #forest

Little forest isopod making its way over some moss. #invertebrates #forest #isopods #naturephotography

Evening falls in the forest while I listen to the screams of a black woodpecker (which, in the tradition of their people, doesn’t show itself). #forest #naturephotography

Ripe and unripe fruiting bodies of slime mold suspended from a tree. Badhamia utricularis. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

#moss #naturephotography

This false puffball slime mold climbed alllll the way to the top of a dead tree to spread its spores. Enteridium lycoperdon. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Slime mold road network, index finger for scale. Fuligo septica. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Rock pool #naturephotography

Grape-like bunches of slime mold fruiting bodies. Badhamia utricularis #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

🌍 Inocybe geophylla 🇬🇧 White fiberhead 🇩🇪 Erdblättriger Risspilz 🇨🇿 Vláknice zemní 🇸🇰 Vláknica hlinovolupeňová 🇲🇨 Strzępiak ziemistoblaszkowy #closeup #mushroom #fungi

Last night I had one of those dreams where I walked into a party only to realize I was naked. But instead of panicking, I turned to the partiers and calmly said “I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” If only I had some of that wit and confidence while awake.

Curly inkcaps from today. #fungifriends #moss

Lunch walk slime mold find. Metatrichia floriformis. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Winter polypore with guttation droplets. #fungifriends #moss

First spring blossoms

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

These guys are not spiders but fungi-eating moss mites (Damaeidae undet.) on slipper fungi (Crepidotus undet.) #fungifriends #arachnids #invertebrates

It was a mistake to leave me unsupervised.

Gemaakt in de Drentse #natuur. Als iemand een autoband kwijt is: ik heb de dader! #Wolf - Canis lupus - brengt een nieuw speeltje naar huis.

This stunning Beetle flew in right in front of us in the car park at RSPB Ham Wall last week. It’s the Sexton Beetle Nicrophorus investigator & what a beauty it is! Note the tiny mite under its chin(?) in the RH pic! #InsectThursday #Beetles @rspb.bsky.social

Blue and shiny iridescent slime mold fruiting bodies. Badhamia utricularis. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends