Tiny dots in on the leaf undersides
Stems hairy
What is curling the leaves on this Norway maple?
Flower stalks pubescent. Upper stem pubescent. Lower stem glabrous. About 4 - 5 feet tall. Not far from Willow lake
Tun tree? Near Willow lake
Leaves pinnately compound and alternate. Compound leaves do not have a terminal leaflet.
Leaf underside pale and looked woolly. I don't think this is Poison sumac, as I wouldn't expect to find this plant in NYC; I didn't touch the leaves just to be safe. Poison sumac typically grows in swamps and pristine habitats. The leaves also don't look quite right.
Woody stem, green and mottled.
In deciduous woods at night
A white planthopper with an orange eye region
On a Tulip tree trunk. This one was about three to four times the size of the Japanese camel crickets on the same tree trunk. Perhaps this is an adult and those smaller ones were still immature ? See second photo for size comparison.
Chewing the fuzz off of the underside of a brown grape leaf
A pseudoscorpion on the Black spruce borer's head. Perhaps hitching a ride?
Growing in wood chips.
Not sure what the white stuff on top of the stinkhorn is
200x and 800x magnifications. Fruiting bodies seemed to only form on the abaxial leaf surface of Quercus bicolor.
Stem glabrous. Leaves quite large, maybe 3 cm long. Leaf abaxial surface glabrous.
Growing in mulch
Sounding an alarm while eating peanuts
The underside of the wings looks like a moldy brown leaf. Amazing camouflage!
Some hops in a sea of Kudzu, growing on an abandoned lot between two buildings in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
A vacant lot between two buildings in Bushwick. A car was covered with the Kudzu. Near the middle of the lot, there was also some Japanese hops growing.
Arching habit, blue-green leaves, paler underneath, stout thorns, and very large, urn-shaped hips.
I found several fruiting bodies of the Dog's nose fungus on a Black oak snag. The tree still had a bit of life left in it and had some green leaves. The young fruit bodies of the fungus are enveloped in a tan colored sheath, which opens up and peels away, revealing a black, glossy and moist surface, which is covered in tiny bumps, all in all looking and feeling very much like a dog's nose. My friend with his dog, Tina, was with me. The second and third photos show Tina's cute nose for comparison.
Thanks to @mertensia for confirming the ID. The same plants as in this observation earlier in the year: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158128347
Linear bracts on umbelets. No visible bracts coming out of the main point of attachment of the umbel. Leaf sheaths with white fringes. Ribbed / grooved seeds and fruit.
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/fools-parsley
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128243152006163
Plant contains coniine, similar to Poison hemlock. According to one paper, 3 mg of coniine produce symptoms in humans. Apparently, 6 to 8 leaves of this plant can be tolerated...
Sawfly larva feeding on Persicaria virginiana, underside of leaves
A prolific fruiting of Dog's nose fungus on a well rotted hardwood log.
Really stunning grove of about nine trees
Grooming session.
A juvenile making begging calls I believe.
In a building courtyard. White hairs on fruit. Flower with white club structure in the center, which must be the style.
Leaves lance shaped with small teeth that are widely spaced apart. The leaves are sessile and opposite. Stems scabrous. Florets have tiny white ray flowers and four angled disc florets. The flowers have about ten leafy sepals/bracts.
The seeds are gray truncated cones with little warts.
I waited for it to fall off the ceiling.
In a building courtyard
Tiny teeth, well spaced apart, on leaf margins
Four cleft petals
Cauline leaves sessile
Fruit hairs white, rather than cinnamon flavored, which distinguishes this plant from E. coloratum
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/fringed-willowherb
Strange convoluted growth on the cap of one of the Armillaria fungi (probably A. sinapina). In deciduous woods
KOH on cap flashes green and then quickly turns a dark purple color (last three photos). On a well decayed hardwood log
poroid, soft, cottony margin, easily removed from substrate
Found by a NYMS member on the foray.
My first time seeing this species
This mushroom was squashed under a decorticated hardwood log.
With ozonium.
A toothed, pinkish tan, effused crust on a hardwood log. KOH reaction is dark, nearly black (last photo )
Deciduous woods, at night. Green ash, Maples, Black cherry, American sweetgum, Tulip trees, Oaks
I think those are remains of slug slime on the trunk of a Black cherry
A juvenile I assume judging by the pale color and the small size. In deciduous woods, under a log
On a still living, but ailing, Ash tree (I think White ash)
The reddish fungus is Hypoxylon and the black one is Nitschkia.
For Hypoxylon, see
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181665354
A pseudoscorpion on a gilled mushroom. The pseudoscorpion was about 1 - 2 mm long.
Eating a live Spotted lanternfly
The Yellowjacket went for the lanternfly's head and quickly chewed it off.