Last Friday I did my weekly walk with my nbo Morgan and my granddog Junior. Afterwards, as we were driving…
The nomenclature for this basidiomycete mushroom is in a bit of flux. The sources I consulted consider Lepista and Clitocybe…
I can find almost no natural history information about this species (or even the genus) of springtails (class Collembola) in…
I simply love finding bird’s nest fungi (family Nidulariaceae)! I’ve been finding them more often since I’ve been down in…
This very interesting member of the family Chrysomelidae, which, in Europe, also goes by the common names bloody-nosed beetle (because…
This appealing myxo in the family Stemonitaceae (order Stemonitales, although there appears to be movement towards changing that back to…
Only recently, because of a burgeoning interest in Myxogastria(slime ‘molds’) and Myriapoda (millipedes and centipedes), have I begun to explore…
I must confess that I really struggle with identifying fungi. Many of their fruiting bodies change shape continuously from first…
This member of the family Ligiidae was a particularly satisfying woodlouse to document, although they are far from rare, because…
I have seen these little fungi in the family Dacrymycetaceae (jelly fungi) many times, but had always assumed they were…