Jessica Williams

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

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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

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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!

I'm assuming they were taken in the 70s (with permission) for his monograph.

When I saw that box of speciman packets, my jaw absolutely hit the floor.

And now I get to help get everything sorted. I'm beyond over the moon excited.

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.

Update.

It's been dry so the moss is a bit crispy but my little Thuja is trucking along

#bonsai

Apios americana // American Groundnut

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Enallagma vesperum // Vesper Bluet

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Dandadan? Cleavatess? The Summer Hikaru Died? Takopi's Original Sin?

But yeah, this season is pretty peak.

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.

Basically 😂

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

Stunning

At least this one is focused, but the framing is HILARIOUS

Exhibit B

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.

It's just hard to get the right shot lined up when thr sun is so bright it washes out your screen and the insects won't just pick a flower and stay

A Cindi Lauper show demands gaudy makeup

Or blown out photos where the camera decided to focus on the plant instead of the GIANT SPHEX WASP

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

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Progess!Process!

One of these years this will be done.

#crossstitch #fiberarts