I brought a 50 watt ultraviolet light (395 nanometers) to Costa Rica and it attracted a lot of cool stuff to the projector screen I am using as a moth sheet.
Badhamia utricularis found hanging from the underside of a California bay tree.
#slimemolds #fungifriends #myxos
This Costa Rica trip starts in 64 days! We will be exploring the biodiversity of high elevation páramo & medium elevation cloud forest habitats.
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A cool leafhopper I photographed a couple days ago in Perú. Anyone know what species or genus it is? Reminds me a bit of Molomea but leafhoppers are really diverse.
Coprinopsis section Coprinopsis photographed yesterday in Tandayapa, Ecuador.
Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma from Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. This tiny slime mold makes its spores on little stalks, giving it a distinctive appearance. My favorite feature of these are the glass-like stems.
Olympus OM-1 / 90mm macro lens / MC20 2x teleconverter
Sandpipers on the beach in Capitola, California.
#birds
A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.
Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.
#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus
Mycena chloroxantha photographed recently in Oxapampa, Peru. The round cells are cherocytes which make up the universal veil - whitish, spiny acanthocytes are also visible. Described in 1983 from Brazil by Rolf Singer.
Mushroom Observer # 628987 / iNat 341877230
#fungifriends #mycology #mycena
One of my favorite flowers, Lopezia racemosa. Second photo in 365 nanometer ultraviolet. The native range of this plant is Mexico through Central America. Extremely rare in cultivation - grown in California by Alan Rockefeller and @crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt - seed collected in Michoacán.
#plants
