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1 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday to everyone! Today, I'd like to share a collection of some of the fascinating fungi that I have found in the woods of western Michigan, USA over the last few days. After a prior week of intermittent rainfall, we have finally bee...
9 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Happy Fungi Friday! Today, I'm bringing you all some pictures from my most recent hike. Earlier this week, I made my way to a swampy wetland surrounded by mixed stands of red pine, maple, oak, and a smattering of eastern hemlock trees. In fact, it wa...
21 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
After a few well-overdue rains and the subsequent humid spell that has cast itself over my portion of the United States, many of the local summer fungi have been presented with practically perfect fruiting conditions. Over the weekend, I took the opp...
16 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
This week, I took a few walks along the Grand River is Western Michigan, USA to see what wildlife I could was out on and near the water. I wake of the recent heat wave that has passed over this portion of the country, the cool waters of the river and...
14 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
The European Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar dispar) is a species of moth introduced to North America in the 1860s and has since become one of the most notorious pest species in the deciduous forests of Northeastern North America. Unfortunately, the sp...
14 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
The Crown-tipped Coral Fungus (Artomyces pyxidatus) is an intricately branched fungus most commonly found in Eastern North America growing from dead hardwood. When fresh, the flesh is a pale white-yellow and highly branched, with each branch terminat...
27 Sep 2020 2 minute read 4 comments aleister
I loved being able to travel to other places, continue mapping the north coast of Portugal along the municipality of Matosinhos, and head towards Spain, following the path along the coastal zone and perhaps ending in Santiago de Compostela, but mean...
10 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Finishing off my "A Closer Look at Solitary Bees" series I had a few short clips of the Bees I assembled into a compilation. They were recorded at 60 FPS, so I slowed down the video by half and added some ambient music. The video starts off with the...
16 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments aleister
Hi everyone Back to another session of macro photography. Macro photography has the incredible power to capture and reproduce what we do not always observe in our daily life, it has the power to capture in detail the universe that nature is capable...
15 Jun 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Solominer
This video starts with a Hawk call in the background with various other bird calls going on around us, the Bees can be heard buzzing in the background. All is calm at the moment. Two Orange-vented Mason Bees enter the bee boards. Distinguishable by...
