Arboretum Horticultural Curator.
🌱🌾 Plants, 🌎 ecology, 🏞️ photos from the office.
🌳 Forest Goblin. 🤬 Kinda sweary.
#plants #horticulture #PublicGardens #ecology #botany #fungi #lichen #moss #ethnobotony #PlantPathology #insects #geology #soil #photography #TTRPG #ADHD #Autistic #FabrysAnderson
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The fallen tree here is, I am almost certain, a red oak I watched fall on a windy afternoon between 1994 and '98 in Wingra Woods, UW Madison Arboretum. I returned to it last week to get a sense of what 25 years of decomposition looks like for a red oak in an upland oak forest, north-facing slope, south-central Wisconsin.
Lake Wingra in the background, with white and red oaks and planted sugar maples.
If you want to find moss you have to think like moss.
Low disturbance, reliable moisture, just enough shade.
For when the traveler returns from the mountain-slopes into the valley,
He brings, not a handful of earth, unsayable to others, but instead
some word he has gained, some pure word, the yellow and blue
gentian.
-- Duino Elegies, Stephen Mitchell translation, Ninth Elegy.
It's a drab, cold day here, so I'm heading back into summer briefly for #Florespondence. This is a red variety of Helenium autumnale, also known as Sneezeweed (for the snuff once made from it!). It is native to North America, growing in wet meadows and open #wetlands. Usually yellow, Helenium is a nectar source for a number of #pollinators including butterflies and native bees.
Hey, I'm new here! I'm currently a research associate at Virginia Tech working on pollinator conservation in cattle pastures. I'm a bee specialist with broad interests in sustainable agriculture, ecology, insect behavior, and conservation. I love cross-disciplinary collaborations, pretending to be good at mathematical modeling, and bizarre insect facts.
Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)
How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?
On a phone, or other touch screen device?
OR
On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?
(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)
Besides being a host plant for monarch butterflies, milkweeds (Here Asclepias syriaca, common milkdweed) also are utilized by birds, especially in #winter. Chickadees have been seen gathering the fluff, and small birds like juncos eat the seeds.
Hello #ScienceMastodon! here's a brief #introduction:
I'm a #plant and #soil scientist interested in #plants, #fungi and how they interact with each other (as #mycorrhizas) and with their surroundings.
Currently leading research projects to investigate #ecology and physiology of diverse mycorrhiza-forming fungi, application of mycorrhizas in #SustainableAgriculture and #evolution of plants+fungi.
Andrew Hipp
Dr. Torrance Hanley (she/her)
Dr. Parry Macdonald Kietzman
myrmepropagandist
Bob McIntosh
Prof. Katie Field