A great paper (that I was grateful to have a very, very tiny part in) just got published! Check it out mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1748... #science #Mycology #Fungifriends #Gliophorus #researchpaper

I'm so tired of watching innocents die on camera.

Hygrocybe sp. #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography #Macrophotography

Usually you find entomopathogenic fungi like these on the undersides of leaves, but sometimes they crawl onto the bottom of a mushroom cap to die #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Mycology #Photography #Macrophotography

Crepidotus crocophyllus #fungifriends #Photography #Mycology #mushroom #macrophotography

Microglossum #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Photography #Mycology

Clavulina sp. #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology

Hodophilus. This are in Clavariaceae (but have gills!) Also they smell like mothballs #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography

Gliophorus sp. Look at that GLUTINOUS PILEUS #Mycology #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Photography

Ope. It seems I may have uprooted someone's home.... An Alboleptonia #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology

The gill shots on this Deconica are just too nice - also, they fluoresce pink/red under 365nm UV light! I wish the lightning was a bit more condusive to getting a good UV shot of the gills here. #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography

I adore Hygrocybe #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology

I remember reading the poem 'First They Came' by pastor Martin Niemöller. Viscerally. It was in my ninth grade social studies class; I was thirteen. It was 2000 - 9/11 hadn't happened yet. The US wasn't at war - not really. Sure there was some middle eastern action, remnants of the gulf war (cont)

My oldest cat passed away last month - he was 17. I've been working on a memorial piece for him - it hurts so much that he is gone but doing this is, in a way, helping me grieve #loss #fiberarts #crossstitch #embroidery

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Idk what this is. Enjoy.

Calycina sp. Who is sheee??? #fungifriends #mycology

Camarops petersii is a seriously weird mushroom #mycology #fungifriends

It's the day of pretty corts #mycology #fungifriends

Pulling some samples for sequencing. Check out this pretty little Cortinarius #fungifriends #mycology

I downloaded Finch and so far I'm actually liking this app? Let's see if it can help me be more consistant with chores... Anyway, here's an invite Tap this link or use my friend code YSYST1GHGP6 for a special reward! finch.go.link/7IMmu?adj_la...

Y'all, I'm too much for myself sometimes

I simply adore these corts #fungifriends #mycology #cortinarius

'tis the season for Macrolepiota (or at least it would be if we weren't in drought.) These guys are a choice edible, and pretty easy to ID. Look for a moveable, double-sided ring, 'snakeskin' patterning on the stipe, and white to pale pinkish spores. Macrolepiota Macilenta #Fungifriends #Foraging

Clavaria cf. fumosa #fungifriends #mycology

Oh, to be a longhorn bee snuggled up with my bee buddies for a nap in a rush. #nature

HM. What do we HAVE HERE. M. griseoviride is supposed to have a Melzer's reaction at the tip of the asci and the specimans from OH that we did micro on are NOT reacting to Melzer's regent Gonna need to dig down this rabbit hole a little more #mycology #dnasequencing

www.gofundme.com/f/a-husband-... Boosting this here. One of the founders of the Ohio Mushrooms Enthusiasts group is in critical care and his wife is reaching out to community for support. Anything that you could give would be so appreciated!

Y'allllllllllll I had a meeting with a local herbarium today to discuss accessioning some fungi there and to look at the small fungal collection that was donated by a former professor's widow and like... I thought it'd just be a personal collection. I didn't expect dozens of holotype splits.

Apios americana // American Groundnut #Nature #photography

Enallagma vesperum // Vesper Bluet #Nature #photography #odonata

One of two American Chestnuts of appreciable size that I'm aware of in our parks system (there might be more.) And by appreciable size I mean like... 10 inches diameter. It isn't big. But it looks healthy.... for now. I'm going to cry when it starts showing obvious blight.

Is it a small Inocybe with a brownish cap that looks a right mess? Probably Pseudosperma friable. But in all seriousness, I should have figured this one out without sequencing WHOOPS. #mycology #fungifriends

hell is trying to take pictures of Odonata that won't land

New favorite dragonfly. Celithemis eponina // Halloween Pennant #photography #nature #odonata

I'm literally on iNat + the Ohio Odonata Society website researcing what dragonfly species are rare in the area to plan my outing tomorrow. Send help.

A Cindi Lauper show demands gaudy makeup

Hello there #Nature #photography #odonata

This sulphur was EXTREMELY obliging #nature #photography #butterfly

Cleaning up photos for iNat obs sometimes is just 90% getting rid of blurry dragonfly photos.

The amount of humidity has been crazy here in NEO; at 8am absolutely everything in this field was covered in a sheet of dew, my shoes were completely soaked through and I never stepped in water. #nature #photography

Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature

Progess!Process! One of these years this will be done. #crossstitch #fiberarts

There is truly something magical about Ospreys #nature #photography

Just a pretty little paper wasp gal, snacking on some extrafloral nectaries on a partridge pea // Chamaecrista fasciculata Polistes genus, I'm between P. parametricus and P. fuscatus. Chime in Hyemnoptera experts if you can tell them apart, I can't. #Photography #Nature #Entomology

We love a bee mimic. Flies deserve love too! Eristalis transversa // Transverse-Banded Flower Fly on Heliopsis helianthoides // False Sunflower #nature #photography #entomology #pollinator

Flies can be beautiful too Toxomerus geminatus // Eastern Calligrapher #Nature #photography #Entomology

This guy was absolutely lost in the sauce, he practically let me pet him. Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) on purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) #Nature #photography #butterfly

Monotropa uniflora, an achlorophyllus, mycoheteroptrophic plant that parisitizes species in the Russulaceae family. Some people harvest these for tinctures; personally, I'm not a fan. The justification is dubious, and few studies can be found on what chemicals they contain. #nature #photography

This is actually a first find for me; neat little fellas, aren't they? Hygrocybe caespitosa, the clustered waxcap #mycology #fungifriends #nature #photography