Found while diving around Pulau Jong, Singapore
Glioporus dichrous growing on it. On River Birch
En retournant un vieux tronc. Tout petit. Au début j'ai pensé à un Myxomycètes, mais j'ai un gros doute. Je me demande bien ce que c'est...
This is a bit uncertain but it may be a small fungus (or a slime mould) being overtaken by another parasitic fungus.
Suggestions welcomed.
On Picea abies needles on the ground. It looks like it is not attached and not growing from anything.
?Spores/cells globose measure at first
(19.4) 19.6 - 25.1 (25.7) × (18.9) 19.4 - 24 (24.8) µm
Q = 1 (1.1) ; N = 10
Me = 22.6 × 21.9 µm ; Qe = 1
but later some exciding 40um with a big range in sizes. That yellow/orange stuff consists only of globose cells and nothing else.
Anamorph fungi. Conidioma immersed in dead, corticated Acer saccharum branch.
Conidia hyaline, single-celled, moderately curved (c-shaped), measure in H2O
(19.4) 19.6 - 23.3 (25.4) × (0.9) 1 - 1.16 (1.2) µm
Q = (16) 18.1 - 20 (27.2) ; N = 6
Me = 21.4 × 1.1 µm ; Qe = 20
On a tree branch.
The wheat roots were collected and then cleared with 10% potassium hydroxide solution. It was then stained with lactophenol cotton blue. I was looking for arbuscular mycorrhizae arising from a symbiotic relation with an unidentified fungus. Any help with identification of the fungus and explaining exactly what I am looking at would be appreciated. Observed with bright field.
Please excuse the long-winded comments here, but this was just too special not to share with my iNat friends.
I was on the back deck of my house a while ago, adding sunflower seeds to a feeder that the siskins and goldfinches had about depleted. I saw some movement in one of the live oaks which hangs over my deck and saw that it was a Nashville Warbler. This is a common migrant in central Texas, but I had never gotten any shots of one in my yard. I went back in the house, grabbed a camera with a 100-400 mm lens and came back out on the deck to try to get some identifiable shots of the Nashville. I saw it occasionally popping in and out of view, but it would never give me enough time to get an identifiable shot. So, I'm standing there getting frustrated at the Nashville when suddenly...a Golden-cheeked Warbler started singing about 8 feet from me!
Golden-cheeked Warbler is an endangered species which nests nowhere but Texas. I have heard them from my property two or three times in the past years and seen a male nearby a few years ago, but the habitat in my neighborhood is certainly not prime for the species, but I do know they are around this immediate area in small numbers, but can be very difficult to find. Normally I have to go 30 or so miles from here to see this species, and then it is always iffy whether such a trip is successful. So, now this Golden-cheeked cranks up in song at 4 PM on an overcast and windy day right at my back door...AND I'm holding a camera! Long story short, I took 150+ images from as close as 6 feet as this mature male GCWA foraged in my live oaks! The bird seemed totally unconcerned about me blasting away with the camera and was busy grabbing small worms, etc. It was terrifically exciting. The bird spent at least 10 minutes above my deck, and sang 5 or 6 times, then flew off toward the more wooded property west of me. Golden-cheeks are quick to abandon locations where human habitation is too dense, but hopefully a place like my neighborhood where all the houses are on 2-3 acre sized properties, is more conducive to the bird sticking around. Anyway, first time I have photographed the species in this area or even in Hays County. And I never did get any shots of the Nashville. Somehow that is just O.K. :-)
By the way, the "out of range" designation which usually pops up on the iNat maps of any report of this species near Austin, is incorrect. The area of the Edwards Plateau just west of Austin is, and always has been, part of the normal range of this species.
Substrate: unk. Xylaria sp.
Habitat: Northwest Andean montane forest (NT0145)
Collectors: D. Newman & R. Vandegrift
Collection #: RLC1340B
Photomicrography and molecular data forthcoming
From a freshwater pond, intermittently connected with the Gatineau river, in Wakefield, Quebec.
Observed in a detritus sample taken from sponge encrusted old fishing gear brought up from ~ 55 fathoms/100m (3/7/2021)
similar observation w/ short video clip. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71814021
Grown in moisture chamber from bark collected locally. After a couple of months of creeping around as a white plasmodium, this one fruited on brown filter paper.
A few colonies found on logs located in a wet sclerophyll type forest
Found growing on a strange old rock mine or quarry of sorts in Capitol forest. Beautiful species growing on all the rocks there.
Dried specimen obtainable with permission from el Herbario Nacional de Bolivia
Pakurikääpä itiöemävaiheessa. Komea itiöemä pitkällä matkalla koivun rungolla, näkyi kaarnan haljettua.
Isolation at several locations in Torres Vedras, Peniche, Faro, Povoa do varzim
This is Neopeckia coulteri, the brown felt blight, and needs a new species page. It occurs when pine branches stay submerged in snow. On a lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta.
First trip to Antohakalava ever made. Color troubles with pictures, sorry.
寄主はヘクソカズラ? Hostplant : cf. Paederia scandens (family: Rubiaceae) ?
I posted these Stink Bug eggs here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8084821 but now I can see that they were parasitized. This site gave me some indication of what it was:
http://utcrops.com/cotton/cotton_insects/Biocontrol/Stink_egg_para.htm
Black stromatic pyrenomycetous fungi on hardwood branch. With short necks, erumpent from the bark.
Asci 8-spored, IKI-.
Spores 2-celled with gelatinous sheaths, measure in H2O
(15.9) 16.6 - 19.4 (20.8) × (8.1) 8.4 - 10 (10.2) µm
Q = (1.7) 1.8 - 2.2 ; N = 20
Me = 18.4 × 9.1 µm ; Qe = 2
Based on some mycelial cords shown with the genus on Wikipedia. Looks like it could have killed a conifer of some kind.
A male collected in Arroyo Mesteno, a westward drainage in the northern massif of the Sierra del Nido. Collected by Ardell Mitchell, then lead keeper of the Dallas Zoo Department of Herpetology.
A small piece of a long-ongoing project at http://www.bangkokherps.wordpress.com
Карское море, желоб Воронина, траление на глубине 230 м. 63 рейс НИС "Академик Мстислав Келдыш".
Xysticus cristatus (Clerck, 1757) (Thomisidae) [Accepted name www.catalogueoflife.org]. Spider: cephalopthorax (2.5L x 4.5W) + abdomen 3L x 6W mm.
Cantharis pellucida F., 1792, Cantharidae [www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enXSearch.cgi] Beetle: Head 0.8L + thorax 1.9L + abdomen (elytra) 8.8L total ≈(11-12)L mm.
Anamorphic fungi on the front side of Ulmus bark with Orbilia sp. on the inside of the bark.
Overmatured macroconidia pigmented with up to 9- septa.
Conidia hyaline measure in H2O
(59.7) 63.9 - 70.1 (75.4) × (2.6) 2.8 - 3.19 (3.2) µm
Q = (19.2) 20.1 - 24.4 (25.9) ; N = 10
Me = 66.6 × 3 µm ; Qe = 22.2