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David Wilderness
@zeo111.bsky.social
(He/Him)
Wilderness is my middle name (thanks mom)
A technologist building clouds in data centers when there’s no rain.
My hobbies and personal dev projects mainly focus on fungi and the study of mycology.
Gardening in 60d.
Pinned
The Hesperomyces has begun to spread among the invasive ladybugs that moved in to weeks ago. Third year, the pattern has become predictable.
#laboul #ladybug #fungi 🍄
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s finally ladybird move in day here in NY. Approximately 150 have moved in for the winter so far, but only one showing signs of Hesperomyces. We typically see more and more infections over the next few weeks. #TeamLabouls #Laboulbeniales
October 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nothing to see here, just posting a spicy photo on the Internet. 😹 Chalciporus piperatoides from New York.

I wonder if it’s fruiting so aggressively in this drought because it’s parasitizing a muscaroid that’s struggling?
#Boletes #mycology 🍄🍄‍🟫
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I hope quoting is less “let me tell you what to do” than replying but a thought:

There’s nothing free from companies like Google. We’re just not charged at the point of use.

It would be in all our interests to not BandAid and Kleenex that brand of Internet search engine anymore.
Google is free!
July 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/...
Caution… don’t take while hungry.
Also, I’m nearly convinced it overweights the Mac and cheese varieties.
First time I took the quiz I was all… yes all the Mac and cheese, and all the dials were turned like all the way up.
June 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Any #rose enthusiasts out there that can help me identify this #plant?
Found in New York at a remote cabin foundation where there were most likely German immigrants in the early to mid 19th century.
I have a cutting growing I can get more info from; but the old stems are pretty pruinose.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
We have a few different columbines in the garden. The straight native Aquilegia canadensis, a few dwarf party mix hybrids to suck up the leaf miners and add some color, and this one Bulgarian Columbine I domesticated from where it was found during an invasive weed cleanup event.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sunset over the meadow.
#sunset #photography #landscape 🌅
June 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Visited a little patch of pink lady slippers
May 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A spider that helps with pest control around the house, and some Gliophorus around the homestead today.
May 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Bog Beacons! One of my favorite #fungi this seasonal stream was full of Mitrula elegans today. 🍄
May 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Agrocybe like our lavendar bed too.
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Some Iris have started to bloom
May 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Found this little patch of Poet’s Narcissus way deep in some back woods with no sign of any old cabins or the usual developments nearby. Wonder how it got here…
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May 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Cortinarius suberythrinus at one of its perennial spring locations along my Morel hunting trails
May 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Last summer I bought a peck of some wild plums, and didn’t eat them all before they went a bit moldy. So, I dug a bit of a trench along the edge of the strawberry patch, poured the plums along it, and covered them up. Lo and behold… I’ve got a row of plum seedlings coming up. 🌱 #nativeplants
April 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🌱 Almost obligatory, the house came with these lovely Tulips
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
🌱 Moss Phlox border is blooming! #nativeplants #gardening
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Wild Cherry Blossoms, finally blossoming now that we’ve carved it out of the buckthorn thicket that was the hedgerow. Unfortunately it looks like it’s Prunus cerasus, but better than another Rhamnus!
#gardening #invasives
April 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The inherited daffodils have all worked their way back out of the heavy black mulch that buried them for two seasons when we bought the house.
April 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Buffalo Burr Nightshade or Solanum angustifolium, came up from the seed bank under the porch as we reset old slate last year. I love the seed pods. Hopefully more will self seed they have pretty yellow flowers too.
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It looks like it’s a race for most vegetative mass between the golden glow and the black knights in our ratio bed. (The Ratio Beds are the designated portion of the garden where we put all the charismatic, reasonably well behaved nonnatives and near native perennials)
#gardening
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Allium tricoccum I transplanted from the family farm is finally coming up. #nativeplants
April 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Around the tulip and daffodils we find the starts of some new life here on the border of 5b/6a.
The Monarda we planted last year is coming back, and a few wood squill are still popping up where we’re turning over the original flower beds.
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM