'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

It's a good day when the butterflies let you get close enough for pictures Red-spotted purple, Limenitis arthemis ssp. astyanax #photography #nature #entomology #butterfly

Puccinia silphii teliospores #mycology #fungifriends #microscopy

Amanita elongata (Peck's Yellow Dust Amanita) is always a charming little mushroom to come across in the woods #photography #nature #mycology #fungifriends

Coming across Nyssa sylvatica in the woods never fails to spark joy #nature #photography

Most russula are hard to ID, but these guys are easier than most. Russula subsect. virescentinae, almost certainly Russula parvovirescens. #fungifriends #mycology

Y'all, why do I always taste Lactifluus piperatus. I know it's going to be spicy. It's ALWAYS spicy. But the intrusive thoughts go 'Maybe this time it won't be!' #mycology #fungifriends

This is not a hornet. This is a fly. Physocephala tibialis #nature #photography #entomology

Hello friends I am sorry to have disturbed your nap #entomology #fungifriends

Y'all. Why is this photo of a snail somehow the most perfect photo that I have ever taken #nature #photography

current status: in a gully, questioning my choices in life. I slid down several hills. The slugs have beaten me to the mushrooms. Despair

Just absolute confetti nonsense

It’ll just be: FUCK: Scientists are reporting a large chunk of ice has broken off Antarctica… FUCK: Today’s CO2 level is 426.87 ppm.

Look, in like, ten years I'll look back on these selfies and be like 'man, I used to be hot'

Small city sunset

I get a lot of joy from watching Clint of Clint's Reptiles absolutely crash out over badly written animal battle royal books

#Tutorial time. Pin stitches are basically my favorite way to start a new thread in #crossstitch. First, go down into the center of your stitch - this is on aida, but works on evenweave/linen if you're over at least 2 threads (1/8) #crafts #fiberarts

I started this piece around the pandemic, but took a long break from it - the final stitch count is 178.5k stitches, it is going to be a work of *years* Holy moly though, I've gotten much better at keeping my back clean. It is hard to resist the urge to rip out old mistakes #crossstitch #fiberarts

A fun little cort that I found a few weeks ago down in southern Ohio; who is she? I couldn't tell you. I should probably try to figure it out, but cort species identification is NOT my strong suit. #fungifriends #mycology #microscopy

I unceremoniously ripped this mulberry out of the ground a few weeks ago, wrecking the tap root ( it was growing out from under the driveway) Looks like its gonna live. In a couple years this might actually be an okay bonsai

This pendant has been living rent free in my head for months and I finally snagged it from the antique store. 10k white gold Victorian filigree with a white sapphire:3

Violet coral. A paper just came out on these, determing that C. zollingeri actually belongs in Clavulinopsis and reviving an old European name for these (kind of.) So Clavaria amethystina? We'll see if the changes end up sticking, I guess. #mycology #fungifriends

She's done! Back ain't too shabby either. Now to get a framing hoop (and frame the like... four other projects that also need framed) #crossstitch #crafts #fiberarts

Getting IUDs replaced is actually fucking torture fml. At least I can leverage this into the hubby getting me takeout