Is this a blue slime mold‽
"Reference material" for a common false positive. A look at the weathered outside makes it less obvious, but the last 2 pics show it partly unfolded to see it's a discarded napkin (I had thought it would be a tissue).
After happily remarking that I had just found "human tissue remains", I got an unexpected reaction and then there was much laughter over the misunderstanding.
Both birds got suddenly quiet and into this low-profile position, hiding from some aerial predator that I could not see. :-)
Aggressively chirping at an eastern ratsnake.
September 5th 12:12 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134118071
September 8th 12:27 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134294966
September 11th 1:48 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134726801
September 5th 12:12 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134118071
September 8th 12:27 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134294966
September 11th 1:48 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134726801
September 5th 12:12 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134118071
September 8th 12:27 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134294966
September 11th 1:48 PM
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134726801
In clearing of lowland rainforest. This observation is for the caterpillar. The host plant, which appears to be Dalechampia cf. juruana, is submitted as a separate observation.
The same looking caterpillar has been identified as Hamadryas chloe (see www.projectnoah.org/spottings/16479399), but this determination appears to be incorrect... the true H. chloe larva looks quite different (www.scielo.org.co/pdf/bccm/v25n1/0123-3068-bccm-25-01-123.pdf). Based on my research, the closest match, minus the the prominent yellowish bands (intraspecific variation?), appears to be H. amphinome (compare images at www.flickr.com/search/?text=Hamadryas%20amphinome and https://caterpillars.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/57057/media). The closely related H. arinome is also similar (https://caterpillars.unr.edu/lsacat/species/nymphalidae/nym22/nym22.htm), but again it lacks the yellow bands. These imperfect matches may indicate the possibility of this being H. belladonna whose caterpillar appears to be unknown but which occurs in this area and is sister to H. amphinome (see phylogeny of Garzón-Orduña et al. 2013, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cla.12021).
Lots of fruiting bodies at various stages on one log
On dead California bay laurel, roughly 9 by 9cm (card is mislabeled), second set of photos taken 9 days after initial observation
I think this is an aged Brefeldia maxima that has turned to a soot like powder when touched .
On pine
Spores: (7.1) 7.3 - 7.9 (8.6) × (6.5) 6.7 - 7.6 (8.4) µm
Q = 1 - 1.17 (1.2) ; N = 33
Me = 7.7 × 7.2 µm ; Qe = 1.1
descansando
On rabbit dung. Identification from ...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0028825X.2002.9512786
2nd photo is stalk with paving-like structure, and 3rd photo is spherical spores. Last photo is the 'slugs' tranforming into fruitbodies. They are eating a yellow bacterium.
It has dextrinoid spores, not mentioned in the literature, but then people don't often mount myxos in melzers reagent.
Hamadryas guatemalena - T10 - Nicaragua : Rio San Juan: San Miguelito: La Colina, alt. 70 m, 11.285317, -84.762900, 11-XII-2013, col. Jazmina Reyes (1 ej.) [Ma-7]
Bioluminecent fungus, growing in rotten wood. Long time exposures, a few of them with additional flash (to make the glowing and the wood both visible), one short-time exposure with flash.
On gravel bar along Robson River in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
On burnt Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) bark on a living tree
I found these growing on one side of a single California Bay Laurel log. Photos taken over a series of days, 14-20 August 2019.
Found on a California Bay Laurel stump. Photos taken over a 6-hour period.
Location: White Rock Campground
Habitat: Open oak woods with Rhododendron.
Substrate: Well decayed moss-covered log.
I was struck at some 20 yards away by the beautiful orange pseudoaethalium on a moss-covered, well-rotted log. It had apparently formed overnight. I coillected it and watched it got progressively darker. It turned tan by evening.
One mystery is that some pseudoaethalia turned oily black – and even stained my clothes. It seems that the normal progression is from orange to tan sporangia full of dry, tan spores, which then are released. I’m not sure why some bodies were oily black.