Undescribed species of Ophiocordyceps on larva of Polyphylla decemlineata
Host: adult fly
Habitat: montane to high-montane, humid, secondary mountain forests
Ecoregion: Bolivian Yungas (NT0105)
Collectors: D. Newman, P. Kaishian, L. Deininger, D. Ettlinger & T. Padilla
Collection #: APA088
El ejemplar fue colectado y será depositado en la colección micológica de CUCBA
Fire Coral Mushroom
grown on an oak twig brought home from the forest (in a greenhouse)
Comments: this was the largest of any “bamboosicle” I have ever witnessed in person, dry or fresh. I so wish I were the one to find it in the field, and could have therefore photographed it in situ, but stumbling upon it back in the lab was still a pure delight. the final image shows some last-minute shots of the largest fruiting body — which had the heft and overall gestalt of a chicken pot pie — with my hand an a coin for scale, respectively. this species’ size, locality, and truly shelf-like growth habit all make the ID unmistakable as A. polyporoides. also note the typically long, filiform ascospores ejecting against the black background in the close-up shots.
Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Apr. 29, 2019.
On Hemitrichia serpula, observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/140606010
This obs is for the fungus. There is another obs for the Trichia botrytis Myxomycete.
About two inches across and very soft.
Peridium of immature fruitbodies staining stronlgy purple, long expansive rhizomorphs present, odor was mild, becoming foetid throughout the day.
Fruits 1.2-2.5 cm. fruiting around rotten Ohia, M. polymorpha, with Strawberry guava close by.
Photo Credit: Venkat Sankar - Used with permission from a trip we took together around Kenya
Nymphs
Possibly mimicking a spider infested with Gibellula fungi.
Please Help ID this Caterpillar.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFvAnqSfVSk
Día 21 // Day 21
3 individuos // 3 individuals
Relacionado con // Related to:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2413526
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2427215
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2441395
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2446906
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2456420
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2462895
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2468145
banana flavored
iNat's suggestion.
3 cm of caterpillar to 1 cm of horns
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit and taxonomic work belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Collected for the 2022 Gulf South Mycological Society Annual Winter Foray, held in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Asci IKI+, croziers, 210-260 x 22-26µm
Spores hyaline, mostly biguttulate, ellipsoid with tapered ends, 10.5-11.8 x 4.4-5µm
Duplicate of https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179274112
Collected for the 2023 Purchase Knob AscoBlitz
RLC1785
RLC1799
Collected for the 2023 Purchase Knob AscoBlitz
fruiting bodies strongly hygroscopic
Habitat: Atlantic Paranaense forest
Substrate: on corticate “Mandarina” sticks
Collector: D. Newman
Collection #: CIAR015
Collected during the 2015 “Curso de Identificación de Macrohongos Degradadores de Madera,” lead by Dr. Gerardo Robledo, Dr. Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Dr. Orlando Fabián Popoff Montañez and Nicolás Niveiro.
RLC1827
Habitat: Atlantic Paranaense forest
Substrate: on small, corticate, easily-breaking, white-rotted stick
Collector: D. Newman and E. Sir
Collection #: CIAR012
Collected during the 2015 “Curso de Identificación de Macrohongos Degradadores de Madera,” lead by Dr. Gerardo Robledo, Dr. Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Dr. Orlando Fabián Popoff Montañez and Nicolás Niveiro.
Growing out of a cut hardwood stump. A False puffball (slime mold) was also growing on the same stump. The young specimens of X. polymorpha were grayish bluish finger-like fruit bodies. This is the asexual form of the fungus, i.e., the anamorph. The gray powdery substance on these structures are asexual spores, conidia. The sexual form of the fungus, the teleomorph, was also found nearby. They were black fruit bodies and sort of reminded me of Apiosporina morbosa (Black knot). I sliced one open to reveal the white interior and a black outer wall. This black outer wall consists of perithecia (flask like structures), which contain the asci that release the sexual ascospores via tiny openings called ostioles.
Larva on alder (Alnus glutinosa)