Bug Fung

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Off topic, but have you ever picked up on Alan Mitchell's entry in the "Field Guide to the trees of Britain & Northern Europe" about the rubra in Cassiobury ?

 

Presume it was a height champion at one point.

Is it still there?

 

 

 

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cant think ive seen it, but then apart from the very impressive tulip tree and a rather nice pine i dont notice anything but the parks vet oaks!

[David Humphries]

No idea on the species, & I'm kinda guessing the little orange sacks are eggs ?

 

Here perched upon a split Lycoperdon.

 

 

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[RobArb]

Poor thing, did you not rescue it from all those mites?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[Fungus]

No idea on the species, & I'm kinda guessing the little orange sacks are eggs ?

 

David,

Nice picture of a Harvestman (Opiliones), probably Phalangium opilio, and the red "eggs" are parasitic mites.

[David Humphries]

Poor thing, did you not rescue it from all those mites?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

 

David,

Nice picture of a Harvestman (Opiliones), probably Phalangium opilio, and the red "eggs" are parasitic mites.

 

 

 

Guess I need to increase the magnification or get some specs

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Couple of Laccaria poles to guy ones web from

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Some Phallus impudicus getting the Blue Bottle treatment.

[David Humphries]

Some Phallus impudicus getting the Blue Bottle treatment.

 

Hold breath or nose peg

 

Which option did you go for ?

 

 

 

Shooting the fung is a joyless pastime.....................some of the time

 

 

 

 

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[geoff]

Blimey Matt,thats devotion getting that close,put me off my gentlemans rellish on toast breakfast!

[Fungus]

thats devotion getting that close,put me off my gentlemans rellish on toast breakfast!

 

Geoff,

In my early days in the mycological field, our prof, during the lunch brake on a field trip, once was eating his sandwiches amidst some 20 "ripe" Phallus impudicus , while everybody moved away from him as far as possible.

It turned out he from childhood on had a nasal disorder with total lack of smell as a consequence and that's when we found out, that he had lead us up the garden path, when he asked us what the smell (and taste) of a fungus was to identify a species, because he had never smelled it himself and only knew this information from books .