Bird's nest #fungi are small, cup-shaped fungi that look like miniature bird's nests filled with tiny "eggs.” 🪺
I was so excited to find these! 🤩
Newhalem, WA
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #ForestFriday #PNW
Laurisilva - Evergreen cloud Forest on Gomera - a fairytale forest #botany #nature #moss
Mushrooms in Laurisilva forest Garajonay NP - Gomera #nature #botany #endemic
Found some lichen in Garajonay NP - Gomera #lichen #nature #botany
Photo of several Cladonia podetia which look like grey golf tees. The top of the two larger podetia are ringed with several bright red blobs (apothecia).
Cladonia sp lichens. Newfoundland, Canada. Lichens are approx 2cm high.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Illustration of White Peppered moth & Black Peppered moth. Writing explaining Natural Selection
My 14 yr old grandson comes to me on Mondays for Nature Studies & this term we're doing Natural Selection. Today we learned about the fascinating example of the Peppered Moth, and here's Indy's write up at the end of the day! I love learning alongside him... 😀
#NaturalSelection #moths
Photo taken February 1, 2026, at my field in #NorthernCalifornia of some mushrooms growing on an oak tree that has passed. #photography #nature #FungiFriends #fungi #mushrooms
I took a six week class where we made exactly one painting. here is my painting
Tower of Life — Klaus Klinger in Düsseldorf, Germany Street Art mural on building
#StreetArt #art #murals
Gush
#WhimsyWednesday
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Close up photo of 4 mature slime mold sporangia. Each bright red sporangium consists of a short, thin stalk attached to a small cup from which a tubular, cotton candy-like spore mass protrudes. They are attached to dark coloured dead wood. The fuzzy photo background is mainly light green.
Arcyria sp slime mold. NWT, Canada.
#myxomycetes #fungifriends
The slime mold sporangia are about 0.5cm high.
Two brilliant red mushrooms with yellow stems. The one on my left has an orange streak on the cap.
Prepare for Far Too Many waxycaps. Hadda get them all before the poison oak comes in.
📷🍄 #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Sporepunk
Using #FungiFriday to plug our special issue from last summer, packed with interesting mycology reviews, primers and other pieces...🍄👇
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Stropharia ambigua or Questionable Stropharia! You know what's not ambiguous? Nazis, fucking Nazis in the streets organized by the fucking pedophile in the WH. We're coming for you... #WeAreTheMajority
#AbolishICE
P.S. Don't be a Nazi!
#fungifriends
When the world serves up a shit tsunami - basically, everyday - I find spending time watching the hummingbirds keeps me calm. Took about two weeks of daily work to get this one comfortable enough to hand feed. It's a process.
#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #birdsky 🪶
Some thick fluffy moss, star shaped. It’s at the foot of some trees.
I can see this moss 1000 times and still stop and go yeah, that’s some good moss.
#moss
: Photo of a white sand area in which a large flower has emerged. The flower has three large, open perianth lobes, which are chestnut brown. A single central structure of fused anthers.
Prosopanache is the tropical American answer to Hydnora of Africa. The two genera are sisters, holoparasitic & lack chlorophyll. They appear above ground only as flowers. This is Prosopanche americana, parasitic on legumes. 📷: Agustín Zarco CCBY4 #Aristolochiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
„Christmas Tree“ made of calcite, can be seen at the Mineralogical Museum in Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Infographic on gingerbread graphic that highlights the chemical transformation that ginger undergoes when cooked, and shows the chemical structures of gingerol (before cooking) and zingerone (after cooking).
Infographic on rooster doro wat that highlights the ingredients of the spice mix used, including holy basil, cardamom, fenugreek and ginger. The structures of sotolon (component of fenugreek), linalool (component of coriander seeds) and 1,8-cineole (component of cardamom seeds) are shown.
Day 9's #ChemAdvent entries are linked by ginger - a key component of gingerbread and also one of the spices found in rooster doro wat, an Ethiopian spicy chicken stew eaten after periods of fasting, including at Christmas 🫚
#ChemSky 🧪
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Blossoms
Good morning Bluesky. Angel Oak, a southern live oak, located John’s Island, Charleston, SC.
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Speech
Harvest mouse perches on ear of corn
Close-up shot of harvest mouse on teasel
More distant shot of harvest mouse on teasel
Harvest mouse and berries
Apparently today is National Harvest Mouse day so here are some rather adorable photos I was able to take a couple of years ago, on the best photography day ever.
Harvest mice are astonishingly cute, and fast, and some of the other creatures I photographed that day would have loved to eat them!
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“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control.”
— Stephen King
A young woman with glasses sits on a wooden bench outdoors, smiling at the camera while holding a viola on her lap. She is wearing a black top, wide green pants, and black heeled sandals. On the left side of the image, there is a large colorful speech bubble with the following quote: “I primarily focused on the symbiosis between fungi and endosymbiotic bacteria. We identified natural products produced by the bacteria that protect the fungi from predators and play a key role in the symbiotic relationship.” At the bottom left, the “Leibniz-HKI” logo is visible. At the bottom right, a large purple arrow points to the right.
A graphic calendar page with a turquoise-blue gradient background. In large pink letters it says “SEPTEMBER,” and underneath: “Hannah Büttner.” At the lower left is the “Leibniz-HKI” logo with the text “Leibniz-HKI Calendar 2025.” At the lower right, the word “SWIPE” is written in bold black letters next to a large purple arrow pointing to the right.
A young woman in a white lab coat is working in a laboratory. She is holding a pipette and placing a sample into a scientific instrument. On the right side of the image, there is a speech bubble in a turquoise color gradient with the text: “I particularly enjoyed structural elucidation and analytical challenges.” Below, the logo of LEIBNIZ-HKI is visible. A large purple arrow points to the right.
A young woman with glasses, wearing a black t-shirt and green trousers, stands indoors next to a large aquarium full of fish and aquatic plants. She holds a viola under her arm and looks thoughtfully into the distance. Her reflection is visible in the aquarium glass. Colorful text bubbles on the right side of the image read: “I like it when Art and Nature come together.” The words “Art” and “Nature” are highlighted in bright, decorative fonts. At the bottom left corner, the logo “LEIBNIZ HKI” is visible.
Meet our #September feature Hannah Büttner in this year’s #calendar 2025! 👩🏻🔬 She explored fungal-bacterial symbiosis, loves both music & art, and carries science in her bag wherever she goes. 🎒🏜️ Read her interview here: lmy.de/FUIJC 🎙️
#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
I prefer Dioptase !
On the Schneekoppe 1350 m
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