North Table Mountain is stunning and maybe a glimpse into what more of California’s blooms were like pre-modern agriculture?
Damon Tighe
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#Biotech educator by day and #Biodiversity Community Scientist, #iNaturalist addict, and Mycophile with all the time in between. Based in the SF Bay Area
Found this globular springtail on some
Morels this week in Oakland. The chillest #springtail I’ve ever met, just went about its business eating the mushroom while I creeped on in with a camera for a very very long time.
Calypso bulbosa occidentalis is out in good numbers in Marin County right now. #orchids #wildflowers #botany
Excited to be sending off these Poronia ingii to a researcher in Taiwan that is working on the group. These were a delightful find in Arizona a few years back. #mushrooms #Poronia #communityscience
Zythia resinae
Bc if something was going to live on coniferous resins a lichenized fungi was going to be top of my list. Seen today on wounded Doug Fir roots in Marin, California.
It is found in North America and Eurasia, so check your sappy needled trees!
New yard critter for me: Ectopsocus californicus. Found just chill’n on an orange leaf within half a pace of my front door. It’s amazing how giving oneself just another 2x in magnification and all of a sudden a whole other realm of life becomes visible. A good reminder that most organisms on the planet are not at our scale so to appreciate biodiversity it really helps to be able to drop down in scale. #insects #biodiversity
Dropped of my last vouchers for the CA FUNDIS project where I’ve been a volunteer for 2 years. Sad to see funding pulled for political reasons but impressed by what was accomplished: 12k+ vouchers, 75+% with DNA barcodes and a lot of novel species. INat Project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ca-fundis-umbrella?tab=observations #mycology #mushrooms #biodiversity #fungi
The other upside of having compost besides making soil and keeping all riches of carbon complexity that grows on the property onsite is the diversity of microfauna that visits it. Last night I went on a micro safari and found springtails, ants, and even some fly death fungus taking out a little Diptera. #compost #springtails #buildBiodiversity
Wonderful adventure this weekend surveying a UC Reserve with a handful of excellent naturalist (Taye Bright, Sadie Hickey, Dean Lyons, Warren Cardimona). We found 1) #Ortholasma rugosum 2) Goth #Resupinatus 3) #Patinellaria 4) stunning and occasionally precarious views #biodiversity #california
Mucronella flava
Had the pleasure of leading a walk at California’s best known mushroom gathering: SOMA Camp. My walk “sweat the small stuff” focused on finding micro fungi, but it’s really just an excuse to get people to slow down and see habitat with more of an ecology lens bc if you can read how moisture moves through a habitat and what organisms interact it’s a lot easier to see a diversity of organisms. We only made it 50 m in first 40 minutes. #SOMA #MUshrooms
Had the pleasure of leading a walk at California’s best known mushroom gathering: SOMA Camp. My walk “sweat the small stuff” focused on finding micro fungi, but it’s really just an excuse to get people to slow down and see habitat with more of an ecology lens bc if you can read how moisture moves through a habitat and what organisms interact it’s a lot easier to see a diversity of organisms. We only made it 50 m in first 40 minutes. #SOMA #MUshrooms
