~meoralis~Sep 29
It's time for warmer clothes 🧣


#MossMonday #mosstodon #Moos #moss #MushroomMonday #FungiFriday #fungus #fungi #Baumpilz #Pilz #Zunderschwamm #FomesFomentarius #tinderFungus #hoofFungus #tinderConk #tinderPolypore #Polypore #bracketFungi #shelfFungi #Porling #Porlinge #Wald #woodland #forest #nature #Natur #Harz
JetteSep 22
Tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius) without the tinder beetle in this moment. With a pretty pristine white rim. We humans have a long known relationship with this mushroom. Using it to make tinder for fire and clothing, it also has medicinal uses. Ötzi the Iceman from 5000 years ago was found with pieces of this mushroom. Called gewone tonderzwam in Dutch.

#fungi #forest #polypore #autumn #september #mycology #tonderzwam
#fungi #forest #autumn #September #ötzi
AnteroSep 19
I find this oddly satisfying, the two of them doing their thing.

#polypore #kääpä
LelaSep 16
#stinkbug
#polypore
JetteSep 9
Chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) bright and pretty fresh

#fungi #polypore #yellow #orange #paddenstoel #nederland
SitzpinklerSep 6
Finally found one that hasn’t passed it use by date 😋
#chicken of the woods #laetiporus sulphureus #zwavelzwam #polypore soufré #sargá gévagomba #fungi #mushrooms
MossShroomAug 11
A big polypore fungus was hiding in the tall grass not so far from where I live. It might be a black-staining polypore since it is coloured black when scared. They usually grow on stumps, so one is probably hiding somewhere underneath the huge fruiting body.
It is not the prettiest shroom out there, but I find these fungi deserve some love too!
Found in Hjallese, Odense, Denmark.

#mushroom #mossshroom #moss #shroom #nature #fungi #polypore
Willa  Jul 25

Milk-white toothed polypore (𝘐𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘹 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘴), from Thompson Park:

(With bonus little spider friend, species unidentified.)

#FungiFriday #polypore #Mushtodon #fungi #spider #arachnids

rspJun 8

Things I found under a polypore.

A single shelf fungus can support a community of organisms--living in and on it. Here I found three beetles and a pseudoscorpion. The very tiny rove beetle (genus Gyrophaena) and shining fungus beetle (genus Scaphisoma) are dependent on fungi. The larger beetle is a clown beetle (genus Platysoma)--they live under bark and feed on fly and beetle larvae.

#biodiversity #beetles #insects #macrophotography #fungi #polypore #pseudoscorpion #ecology #nature

StantonApr 14
Restoration of the Late Miocene polypore, Ganodermites libycus. Spot the pleasing fungus beetle, PPS #sciart #ganoderma #ganodermataceae #miocene #libya #polypore
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rspJun 8

Things I found under a polypore.

A single shelf fungus can support a community of organisms--living in and on it. Here I found three beetles and a pseudoscorpion. The very tiny rove beetle (genus Gyrophaena) and shining fungus beetle (genus Scaphisoma) are dependent on fungi. The larger beetle is a clown beetle (genus Platysoma)--they live under bark and feed on fly and beetle larvae.

#biodiversity #beetles #insects #macrophotography #fungi #polypore #pseudoscorpion #ecology #nature

Show threadrspJun 8
Polypore fungi are saprobes (decomposers) that assist with the decay of deadwood.
Show threadRusty RingJun 8

@rspfau

When you gather wild mushrooms, you quickly discover what a staff of life fungi really are.

Show threadendrift 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 8
@rspfau whoa, that's a big pseudoscorpion! I've never seen one in person, but I'm used to them being mite-sized
Show threadrspJun 8
@endrift The one's we have here are about 4-5 mm. We have some mites that large here also, so they can be mite-sized, LOL!
Show threadendrift 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 9
@rspfau I guess it's true that everything's bigger in Texas
Show threadneville parkJun 8
@rspfau i've been looking for clown beetles ever since i found one covered in Uropodina anal pedicels (some with uropodines still attached)
Show threadrspJun 9
@nev I had to look that one up! "The phoretic stage of Uropodina mites is a deutonymph with developed morphological adaptations for dispersal by insects. Phoretic deutonymphs are able to produce a pedicel, a stalk-like temporary attachment structure that connects the mite with the carrier. "
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969809/
Localization and density of phoretic deutonymphs of the mite Uropoda orbicularis (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) on Aphodius beetles (Aphodiidae) affect pedicel length

The phoretic stage of Uropodina mites is a deutonymph with developed morphological adaptations for dispersal by insects. Phoretic deutonymphs are able to produce a pedicel, a stalk-like temporary attachment structure that connects the mite with the ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Show threadubiJun 9
@rspfau I've always wondered why they were called clown beetles. Someone saw a completely black creature with proportionately giant mandibles and went "Ah, a clown!"
Show threadrspJun 9
@ubi One author claims it was "named after their flattened tibiae resembling wide clown's trousers."