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Boreal Cup Lichen Cladonia borealis?

Fungus growing on Tayloria serrata.

Growing in very wet saturated area on edge of stream.

On recently exposed till along forestry drainage ditch at 640m

Growing on Dead Man's Fingers - Codium fragile

Burl type growth on red huckleberry Vaccinium parvifolium?

maybe?

Intertidal. Worms in a gel like sac - mating?

Seems more tapered than
Wrinkled Amphissa - Amphissa columbiana

On spruce bark exposed to salt spray. Maybe Rockmoss Rosette Lichen - Massalongia carnosa

maybe?

@nschwab - another Seifertia? on a different species: Copperbush -Elliottia pyroliflora. Any thoughts? Thanks!

miners? Subfamily Delininae?

Maybe?

Maybe corratulidae - marine organism(s) with clearest white tentacles that appeared to emerge and move independently from one another. Found growing on rock scallop shell at ~ -6m depth.

biting fly

Found at the top of sandy beach.

The only Haircap moss visible in this area while in search for suspected Arctic Haircap Moss Polytrichum hyperboreum. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/167288-Polytrichum-hyperboreum

maybe?

Growing on Western Bog Laurel Kalmia microphylla.

this is the same specimen as logged by Simon Nicholas here:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/103677879
body length 11.5 mm
an undescribed species

Very small tubes with fringed opening - Moss? found growing among Scabweeds Genus Raoulia in photo.

Strong Anise smell coming from rotting Sitka spruce due to fungal infection? Phaeolus schweinitzii suspected although there may be other causes which I am unaware.

Dysstroma hersiliata?

Very tiny.... growing in Brown bear scat consisting of primarily digested sedge and other vegetation.