Growing on Claytonia caroliniana. Vouchered. JET230424_01
Found by @graysquirrel on decomposing conifer wood.
The sporocarps are about 0.4mm in diameter.
On live oak bark. McCune V1 key steps: 1a, 2b, 6b, 10b, 23b. V2 key steps Group 3: 1b, 2a, 3b, 4b, 5b
Similar to Microglossum viride, but I am told it is an undescribed species.
@sigridjakob and @malacothrix have specimens for sequencing
Scale photo from my friend @bwelko. After I found the first one, we cleared out some leaves and found many more.
Found by my friend @graysquirrel. Thanks Krissa!
Second photo is a fruiting body from another log in the same location. I'd put that log in a moist chamber after collecting it in the woods.
Found on dead wood in a coffee plantation in Colombia.
Second and third photos are zooming out from the first. Found on a small piece of bark in a mixed forest.
Photograph taken with a 10x microscope objective adapted to my camera, focus stack of 140 images.
Great find by @alison_pollack!!
Her photo shows it a little better (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192368312)
On rotten mossy bark of Picea abies Colloderma oculatum was obtained in moist chamber #339
10—16/10/2022
Spores 11.9-13.5 µm
AM 4890
Same specimen from observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148739412. After incubating inside a moist container two weeks later small black fruit bodies emerged with the tips being covered in clusters of conidia. Fruiting off of Beauveria bassiana
Collected by Dr. Steven Stephenson, University of Arkansas
seems like L. gilbertsonii but appears to be growing out of dirt, not wood?
on coastal rock
N. ceruchoides or procera (?) Reviewing Nash edition...
Bowler & Marsh key in Nash
Mature thallus, becoming subpendulose, blades longer (implied: longer than 3cm)
12a. cortex shiny (?), maculate (yes), yellow green (yes), lobe tips pointed (yes, if without apothecia), widely distributed (yes) >> N. procera
vs.
12b. cortex dull, not maculate (no), light yellow becoming whitened (no), lobe tips +/- blunt (?), endemic to Cedros Island and adjacent Baja (no) > N. cedrosensis
on old fence
Cortex C+ orange, K+ yellow, CK+ yellowish
per tom_carlberg:
1) Leconora phryganitis: cortex should be P-, K+Y, KC+, R-O, C+O
or
2) Cladidium bolanderi: cortex CK+Y, C-
seems to be #1, as C was definitely +
This deep water sea star was found in the gut of a rockfish! Observation by Eric Austin Yee, who was cleaning a boat belonging to J&M Sportfishing. This species is found 150-1000’ deep according to Smithsonian echinoderm researcher Chris Mah, who stayed up late helping me with this ID. 🙏 Unfortunately the sea star was thrown overboard in 100’ water after its photo op.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7840855
And yes, it looks like a Cheez-it.
growing in duff under spruce, less than 2 cm tall
On Pertusaria sp. (TBD) on scrub oak bark. Appearing black but actually dark brown overall. Capitulum 0.25mm wide by 0.18mm tall. All parts K+? (second to last photo). Some violet reddish color but not intense, maybe pigments bleeding? [EDIT: confirmed K- (last photo)]. Stalk disintegrates in K (photos). Stalk prosoplectenchymatous, 0.29mm. Ascus cylindrical, ~39-45x6µm. Spores dark brown, subglobose, ~6.5x5.5µm.
Cercidospora epipolytropa cf. auf Lecanora polytropa, unten links und oben Mitte
Found later in the day after combing Elephant Rock. @catchang & Shelly Benson ( 3 & 4th shots )after Eureka moment of Target Sps.
Still need to work this lichen out. At first I thought it was Hypogymnia, but the thallus isn't really hollow. Abundant soredia on the lower surface of the tips.
K, definitely stumped here. Soredia on the lower surface of the tips might suggest something like Physcia or Heterodermia, but I'm not seeing great matches in either of those genera. Clearly on bark. pale lower surface, rolled thallus lobes, no apparent rhizines or cilia.
Check out those coral galls
Echinodontium ballouii wasn't seen for 100 years until Larry Millman found it in an Atlantic White Cedar swamp. Larry took me to the site, (which I can't say where it is) and we found about a dozen of these again 4 years after the first visit.
CyberViewX v5.16.45
Model Code=58
F/W Version=1.06
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
Found parasitizing Upogebia pugettensis. I assume the larger one is female and the smaller a male of the same species.
Several small groups of sporangia on a large bryophyte-covered log in Melaleuca ericifolia swamp forest.
Under driftwood with L. richardsonae, smaller and slower.
Extremely small 1mm squamules growing on soil that was probably mostly degraded "baked" volcanic rock. Seems like they were not fully attached to the substrate so I'm going with Placidium over Acarospora schleicheri, and leaning toward P. squamulosum, though I don't think there's enough info here to go through Brodo's Placidium key.
parasite or fungus growing on Lobaria anthrapsis apothecia and thallus
Prasiola borealis infected with fungus
On Dimelaena radiata, on sandstone. K+R=Norstictic Acid. Spores about 10x6µm, not ornamented.
Growing on the ground under redwood, mixed conifers and tan oak.
All animals observed under the proper permits. Posted with permission from owner.
Chirping Giant Pill Millipede (Sphaeromimus musicus) is restricted to semi-humid habitats, such as gallery forests, of southwestern Madagascar. It can exhibit an unique black pattern on orange-reddish basic colour.
Berenty Private Reserve, Amboasary, Madagascar.
Swarming behaviour of the world’s largest giant pill-millipede species.
Probably juvenile individuals.
Geotagging only approximative.
Identification after : Wesener, Schütte; Madagascar Conservation and Development, Vol.5(2), Dec 2010.
This species seems to be the only species in the order Sphaerotheriida with swarming behaviour.
Madagascar, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, October 28, 2005
photo: lotlhmoq
(my most popular image; category : Views)
Edgewood Park & Natural Preserve
In leaf litter and soil (up to 3 inches deep) in small ravine. Co-occurring with Brachycybe rosea.
I have finally seen this confusing millipede and am no closer to figuring out what to call it. I strongly suspect it's the same as https://www.flickr.com/photos/squamatologist/4165070380, though.
Southwest of El Valle de Antón.
More information about Atelopus can be found at my website: http://www.atelopus.com
Freshly hatched out on a very unseasonably warm winter day. Apparently the furthest north winter record of the species.
Female, broadcast spawning; several males releasing sperm nearby (separate observation). I am especially curious why some, but not all, of the eggs appear to be stuck together with a halo of tiny spines on them; if you know the answer, please let me know!
This is earlier in the year than expected: "In California, spawning occurs from March to May" (O’Clair and O’Clair 1998, Cowles 2005).
Appeared very similar to redwood needles