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Love the type setting on this

What a brilliant idea to use a small mirror! I'm definitely stealing this idea! 😜

Palm of a hand holding a piece of decaying wood showing slight blue discoloration of the inside parts on the end of the piece of wood with green leaves and brown downed wood of the forest floor in the background. From the piece of wood vibrant blue-green mushrooms have emerged that are flat saucer- or cup-like shaped and very small about the size of a pinky fingernail.

Blue Elf Cups

#fungifriends #mushrooms

Top down view of a large mushroom being held with concentric alternating light and dark tan rings of color and a frilled margin with a forest floor in the background.

Pheasant Back

#fungifriends #mushroom

Bone white coral-like mushroom emerging from a decaying trunk of a downed tree in the forested with a bunch of icicle-like "teeth" hanging down from its "branches"

Bear's head tooth

#fungifriends #mushroom

Fathead

Vibrant Yellow-orange capped mushroom emerging from the dark leaf littered forest floor at night with yellow or scales brightly illuminated from above.

Yellow Wart

#fungifriends #mushroom

Omg really! 😱 🤭

Pore side of an Artist conk with "you found me 🐶" carved into it, held up by a hand also holding a small mushroom shaped mushroom knife against a spring forest background.

Black and white boarder collie, named Rush whose handler is Ryan, laying on some fallen leaves in the forest, blepping with his the tip of his little tongue out.

Played hide and seek in the woods again with the MinnSARDA doggos while casually hunting mushrooms. #fungifriends #doggy

boarder collie, Jax, uses large Ganoderma conk on the side of a tree as a little step to pose

Close up of a morel on the forest floor.

One of @fruitgal.bsky.social dogs', Jax, helped us find mushrooms today! #FungiFriends

Border collie, Rush.

UPDATE: The final dog found me!

Short hair Belgian malinois, Stormi.

UPDATE: Doggo 3 found me. One more to go.

A long haired belgian malinois, Sunny, eagerly pulls her handler with her tongue hanging out, excited to find the missing person (Davy was the "missing person").

UPDATE: 2 dogs have found me and my computer died before it could finish processing my data. Now I'm waiting for a third doggo.

Close up of a jelly looking brown fungus growing from the end of a detached stick.

Selfie of Davy bundled up sipping from a thermos.

Laptop on Davy's lap who is sitting in the woods on a crisp sunny day and you can see the reflection of Davey in the black laptop screen throwing a little deuces (peace sign) and taking a selfie.

Today I am in the chilly woods hiding from @fruitgal.bsky.social's and the rest of the MinnSARDA team's dogs, sipping hot coffee, and searching for mushrooms while my R code runs.

Bracket fungus wearing a coat of green mossy utop its shelves emerging from a decaying log in the snow.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, don't forget to wear green!

Selfie of Davy smiling sporting a full mustache riding his bike with no hands (look mom! Don't try this at home, this activity was performed by a dumb dumb) wearing skinny jeans, an electric yellow and baby blue wind breaker, electric blue neck gator, blue sunglasses and electric yellow helmet.

Selfie of Davy wearing an electric yellow wind breaker, an electric blue neck gator pulled up just below the nose, blue sunglasses, and an electric yellow helmet outside with a bright blue sky, a few fluffy clouds and some trees bearing no leaves.

Happy hump day! Air your tires and lube your chain! Hope y'all are taking advantage of this beautiful false Minnesota spring.

A spore trap stands between two rows of dormant grapevines in a snow-covered vineyard. The battery box is nearly completely buried under the snow, and the spore trap itself is partially covered. The grapevines have thick double trunks with unpruned, wild canes. Above, the sky is crystal clear blue.

A closer view of a spore trap in a snow-covered vineyard. Snow covers the main chassis of the trap, the solar panel, and the rain splash brim of the sampling head. Dormant grapevines along trellises are visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

A close-up of the sampling head of a spore trap with a significant amount of snow on the rain splash brim. A large chunk of snow and ice is blocking the air sampling nozzle. Apple trees are visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

A person (Davy) wearing a black Outdoor Research baseball cap and a bright electric blue coat smiles with a mustache, squinting from the bright snow-reflected sun, and gives a thumbs up. They are standing in front of a spore trap with the main chassis panel open and snow covering the rain splash brim of the sampling head. A few dormant apple trees are visible in the background.

#vineyard #orchard #plantpathology

A person (Davy) wearing a bright electric blue winter coat and matching bright electric blue mirrored aviator sunglasses takes a selfie in a snow-covered vineyard. They are carrying a battery wrapped in a bright orange weather blanket over their shoulder. Footprints mark a snowy path leading to a spore trap visible in the distance, standing between rows of dormant grapevines under a clear blue sky.

Exactly one year ago, trekking through the vineyard snow with a freshly charged and weather blanket wrapped battery to keep my spore trap running strong. #ThrowbackThursday #Fieldwork #DoItForTheVine

A close-up of a grapevine canopy in mid-summer, featuring a single leaf at the center of the image. Behind it, red shoots and other green leaves with serrated margins are visible. The central leaf shows areas of white-ish mycelia around some of the veins, indicating powdery mildew.

A close-up of a single grapevine leaf held in a hand, appearing somewhat pale due to the overcast of white mycelium from powdery mildew. The mycelium is concentrated around the veins, where water tends to pool, with a few droplets on the leaf’s surface.

Happy Mildew Monday! Poor vines never stood a chance against our humid Minnesota summers. #fungi #grapevines #plantpathology

That's obviously my picture and exact word for word post. Take down the stolen content. You're welcome to repost my work but not claim it as your own.

Hmmmm what a Familiar looking picture......... Did you take this? Even the caption sounds familiar.... So strange, I swear I've seen these pictures before....

Hmmmm what a Familiar looking picture......... Did you take this? Even the caption sounds familiar....

Hmmmm what a Familiar looking picture......... Did you take this?

A rounded, ovular mushroom emerging from a decaying fallen log. The outer layer, resembling a light brown skin, has split open to reveal a darker interior with a bumpy, wet texture, which might remind you of something familiar... 🤔

Wide-angle close-up of the snout of SNP, a long-coated, mocha brown Border Collie. He’s inside a crate, with his long tongue hanging out and a big smile, showing off his pearly white canines. His nose has an oval shape, with a bumpy, wet texture from the papillae, which might remind you of something familiar... 🤔

In 2025, I hope you sniff out all the best mushrooms. 🪵🍄🐶 @fruitgal.bsky.social #fungifriday #fungifriends

A large tree towers over a bike trail next to a parking lot, with a giant gall encircling the upper trunk. The tree has no leaves, as it's early spring. A red road bike is propped against the tree. In the background, a few cars are parked in the lot, with a forest and lake visible further away.

Happy Thick Trunk Tuesday! Alas, they became too 'busty' to manage, and the park services had the #gall to cut them down. #plantpathology

A close-up of a young grapevine growing in a pot in a greenhouse, with four yellow mushrooms emerging from the soil at its base. The mushrooms, commonly known as greenhouse parasols, are bright, pale sulfur yellow, deepening to a brighter yellow at the base of their stipes. They feature a clear stem ring, speckled scales on top of their caps, and the edges of the caps are stirrated and grooved.

Happy Mushroom Monday to the greenhouse grapevine's #fungifriends!

Everyones loves a lil shaggy ink cap mushroom. Happy #FungiFriday my #FungiFriends 🍄

Annotated picture of a Burkard Multi-Vial Cyclone Sampler (also known as a spore trap) head without its helmet/cover. The image illustrates the path of air: starting at the air inlet, moving through a cylindrical aluminum piece where the cyclone forms, then into a labeled microcentrifuge tube for particle collection. The air continues upward, passing through the created cyclone, past the air inlet, and around to the back where it exits through the air pump. The internal components include tightly fitting pieces of machined aluminum and steel, along with a few 3D-printed black components.

Picture of a Burkard Multi-Vial Cyclone Sampler (also known as a spore trap) head without its helmet/cover. The sampler head reveals internal components made of tightly fitting machined aluminum and steel, along with a few black 3D-printed pieces. A set of microcentrifuge tubes is visible, arranged in a revolver-like piece.

Great question! I describe the spore traps as "overpriced vaccumes"

1. Air is sucked in
2. A cyclone is made
3. Particles (spores, pollen, etc.) are thrown and stick to collection tube walls
4. Exiting air moves up through center of cylone

Here's a pic of the sampling head without the helmet on.

I am in Minnesota! But I've had few Maine folk reach out to me before durring grad school-must have thriving communties of mushroomers and grape growers. :)