I found the cutest box #turtle munching on a worm. Anderson county, TN #herps

Found a Lion's mane #mushroom the other day. It was growing on an American beech tree. Anderson county, TN

Found a Laetiporus sulphureus, Chicken of the woods, #mushroom. Made a great dinner! Giles county, VA. #fungi #foraging

Be careful of driving through puddles in the road! Found this little snapping turtle in one of those puddles. Someone could've run them over. Giles county, Virginia 🐢 #herps #turtles

A longhorn #beetle, covered in pollen, in a trillium flower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Unsure of exact species. Very cute! #insects #bugs

Found a beautiful two-lined salamander in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park #herps

Saw a ratsnake at Porter's Creek trail in the Great Smoky Mountains. Very cute🐍

Spring wildflowers are out in the Great Smoky Mountains. This week, I saw showy orchid, fringed phacelia, iris, and much more. Porter's Creek Trail has many of them. So pretty!

Morels are springing up in Tennessee 😁 #mushrooms #foraging #fungi #morels

Found an Eastern fence lizard 🦎 while hiking at Savage Gulf State Park in Tennessee

I found the #mushroom witch's butter in East Tennessee last week. So cute and yellow! #fungi

My boy, Rocky, lives with my mom. I wish he could live with me, but my rental doesn't allow big dogs. He's the best #gsd #germanshepherd #dogs

I collect and ID ground #beetles for work. I found a Myas cyanescens with its left elytra green. Chimerism? The other half was unfortunately damaged by a tweezer. #carabid #groundbeetle

Just finished the audiobook for Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, narrated by the author himself. Fantastic book about #fungi! Learned so many things on how fungi influences us. And now I know Lagotto Romagnolo dogs exist and they're great truffle hunting dogs. 10/10 would recommend #books

Early Christmas gift for my partner's cat. A cat tree up to the ceiling. This is his first time at the very top. He loves it 🐈 #cats #cattree

Found this lil guy in September. A male eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina). What a cutie. Anderson County, TN. #herps #herpetology #turtles #boxturtle

Accidentally moved some bark on a log and I found a red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinerus). Giles county, Virginia. #salamander #herpetology #herping