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Rubus allegheniensis

Under hemlock, birch, and tulip poplar. Growing in small scattered clusters.

Attacking cicada

The fruiting bodies are normally facing downward — better for spore dispersal — but I turned them up to get this angle to better see the tube openings.

Gall formed on Panaeolus by diptera! https://www.bioinfo.org.uk/html/b148075.htm

The whitest oak(heavy Aleurodiscus oakesii feasting)

egg on Japanese beetle

This post is for the white egg on pronotum of lowermost beetle, not the Japanese beetles also in the photo

Identified pictured specimen as well as smaller on unpictured under old leaf litter beneath an oak and holly tree at a north facing forest egde

44" dbh, unfortunately too unsafe to stay

with Massospora cicadina

On lesser celandine

What a magnificent specimen! Huge DBH, 215 years old. Probably treated each year for the EAB

On eastern hemlock log

On eastern hemlock wood

Decurrent gills, red spores?

On holly!

Oak, beech, and yellow poplar forest. In situ pics from Bethany Teigen