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Ashlea Viola
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spot the signs of an old forest
a mixed forest stand in autumn showing a conifer snag, a nursery log, big trees, small trees, and a serpentine shaped tree looking up at the old bark of a hemlock trunk, adorned with coral lichen a close up view of Collema nigrescens, a leafy jelly lichen growing on the bark of a red maple
October 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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summer still, before the gentle disarray of fall
Shadows of ash leaves on the inside of a tent at sun up.
September 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Upon seeing goldencrest for the very first time: "it's like edelweiss!" Ain't it? #atlanticcoastalplainflora #alpineflora #tomentose
Side by side pictures: on the left is goldencrest (Lophiola aurea) with golden yellow flowers atop a fuzzy white stalk, growing in a wetland; at right is edelweiss aka stella alpina (Leontopodium nivale) with its woolly white bracts, blooming at high altitudes.
August 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Frosted glass cheers! #calicioids #microlichens
Several tiny white pinheads of Sclerophora peronella (aka frosted glass-whiskers) lichen in the heartwood of a red maple. Many tiny white/pinkish pinheads of Sclerophora peronella (aka frosted glass-whiskers) lichen in the heartwood of a red maple. More tiny white pinheads of Sclerophora peronella (aka frosted glass-whiskers) lichen in the heartwood of a red maple.
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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lichenicolous lichen! Just some elf ears with ear wax hanging out on some big brown-eyed shingle.
A close-up of bright blue-green Normandina pulchella lichen (aka elf ears) on Pannaria rubiginosa (aka Big brown-eyed shingle lichen).
July 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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buds, blooms, and fruit, oh my!
Partridge berry (aka Mitchella repens), a creeping woody plant -- this one showing pink, unopened buds, white flowers, AND red fruit.
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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young Anaptychia, old Anaptychia
a close up of Shaggy-fringe lichen (aka Anaptychia palmulata), noting the difference in apothecia from the young thalli on the left and the older thalli on the right.
July 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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slipper stop!
purple veined white flower of Ram's-Head Lady's-Slipper (Crypripedium arietinum) atop a slender stem beside empty seed pod two Yellow Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium parviflorum) in bloom rich pink flowers of two Pink Lady's slippers (Cypripedium acaule)
June 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Tips For Preventing And Treating Tick Bites
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Tips For Preventing And Treating Tick Bites Coat yourself in DEET so the ticks get cancer, too.
June 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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for the gall of it! #gallformers #insects
pink protusions of gall mite on green serrated cherry leaf gall (swelling growth) on low growing blueberry plant green witch hazel leaf with lighter coloured green cone-shaped insect gall
May 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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'tis tip-up time! I looked so hard for these stubbles for a year or two...and now I'm finding them everywhere. #calicioids #microlichens
Dozens of tiny stubble lichen on old tree roots. Pointer finger in background for scale is three times as wide as the root. roots and moss hang from an old tipped up tree
May 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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3 shades of mayflower (Trailing arbutus/ Epigaea repens). #signsofspring #ephemeral
A deep pink mayflower blossom peaks out from under its green leaf and moss. The fuzzy stem is also visible. A light pink and white mayflower blossom sits atop its green leaves. White mayflower blossoms encircled by its fuzzy tipped green leaves.
May 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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malteweknejkl in the woods and town #signsofspring #ephemeral
Several raindrops on the closed white flower of bloodroot aka malteweknejkl aka Sanguinaria canadensis. The pink stem is poking out of brown leaf litter and surrounded by a round, veined, deeply lobed light green leaf. Part of a mural entitled Asoqmapskiajk (Kentville, Acadie) showing white flowering bloodroot with deeply lobed light green leaves and bright red roots that appear to be floating in the water or sky. Mural collaboration by Cameryn Mattie, Sarah Mosher, Monique Silver, Don (Byrd) Awalt and people from the surrounding community.
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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3 sides of the same trunk: Balsam Fir at 30-some years #dendrochronology #scriptlichen #pareidolia
holding up a cross-section of balsam fir trunk showing 30-some tree rings a small balsam tree trunk lying on chair boards script lichen adorns a small balsam fir trunk held up by a hand
April 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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#signsofspring #pepperplantation
April 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The only way is up: a celebration of Bolivia’s Indigenous female climbers – in pictures

The word cholita has in the past been used as a pejorative term for the Indigenous Aymara women of Bolivia. But the women in these photographs are reclaiming the word: ... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The only way is up: a celebration of Bolivia’s Indigenous female climbers – in pictures
Photographer Todd Antony captures the strength and pride of ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’
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April 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Hypotrachyna osseoalba showing its reaction to UV.
Craven County, North Carolina
March/12/2025
March 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Our provincial lichen really is beautiful.
Close up picture of a Blue Felt Lichen showing red disk-like fruiting bodies on a lead-gray upper surface with a blue fungal mat peeking out from underneath the lobes.
March 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The species I discovered is almost published :)
No firm timeline, but Mr. Selva is done with the sample and ready to send it back to the herbarium so it can't be much longer before I have a to link for y'all.
Hi Ben: The manuscript we are preparing is getting closer to completion and will include, among other things, a description of the Chaenothecopsis you collected in Maine
March 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Kew Carbon Garden www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Kew Gardens to open new garden this summer inspired by climate crisis
Carbon Garden will show how carbon helps to sustain life on Earth
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March 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Age and migration influence bird groups’ song repertoires, study finds
Researchers used 20,000 hours of recordings of great tits in Oxford to see how culture changes among populations
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March 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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It's hard not to find faces in the forest.
Leptogium corticola smiling. Ghostly and fishy L. corticola faces. Curious L. corticola. Methinks this is Miyazaki inspired L. corticola.
February 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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If you're feeling overwhelmed, I really hope this reaches you today.
February 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nominate your invertebrate species of the year
We’re asking readers from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our second Invertebrate of the Year competition
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February 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM