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Plant Pathology PhD candidate nearing the final boss battle. Here to hype up the hyphae of our fungi friends.

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Blue Elf Cups

#fungifriends #mushrooms
Palm of a hand holding a piece of decaying wood showing slight blue discoloration of the inside parts on the end of the piece of wood with green leaves and brown downed wood of the forest floor in the background. From the piece of wood vibrant blue-green mushrooms have emerged that are flat saucer- or cup-like shaped and very small about the size of a pinky fingernail.
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Pheasant Back

#fungifriends #mushroom
Top down view of a large mushroom being held with concentric alternating light and dark tan rings of color and a frilled margin with a forest floor in the background.
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Bear's head tooth

#fungifriends #mushroom
Bone white coral-like mushroom emerging from a decaying trunk of a downed tree in the forested with a bunch of icicle-like "teeth" hanging down from its "branches"
September 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Yellow Wart

#fungifriends #mushroom
Vibrant Yellow-orange capped mushroom emerging from the dark leaf littered forest floor at night with yellow or scales brightly illuminated from above.
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Played hide and seek in the woods again with the MinnSARDA doggos while casually hunting mushrooms. #fungifriends #doggy
Pore side of an Artist conk with "you found me 🐶" carved into it, held up by a hand also holding a small mushroom shaped mushroom knife against a spring forest background. Black and white boarder collie, named Rush whose handler is Ryan, laying on some fallen leaves in the forest, blepping with his the tip of his little tongue out.
May 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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One of @fruitgal.bsky.social dogs', Jax, helped us find mushrooms today! #FungiFriends
boarder collie, Jax, uses large Ganoderma conk on the side of a tree as a little step to pose Close up of a morel on the forest floor.
May 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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UPDATE: The final dog found me!
Border collie, Rush.
March 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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UPDATE: Doggo 3 found me. One more to go.
Short hair Belgian malinois, Stormi.
March 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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UPDATE: 2 dogs have found me and my computer died before it could finish processing my data. Now I'm waiting for a third doggo.
A long haired belgian malinois, Sunny, eagerly pulls her handler with her tongue hanging out, excited to find the missing person (Davy was the "missing person").
March 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Today I am in the chilly woods hiding from @fruitgal.bsky.social's and the rest of the MinnSARDA team's dogs, sipping hot coffee, and searching for mushrooms while my R code runs.
Close up of a jelly looking brown fungus growing from the end of a detached stick. Selfie of Davy bundled up sipping from a thermos. Laptop on Davy's lap who is sitting in the woods on a crisp sunny day and you can see the reflection of Davey in the black laptop screen throwing a little deuces (peace sign) and taking a selfie.
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day, don't forget to wear green!
Bracket fungus wearing a coat of green mossy utop its shelves emerging from a decaying log in the snow.
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Happy hump day! Air your tires and lube your chain! Hope y'all are taking advantage of this beautiful false Minnesota spring.
Selfie of Davy smiling sporting a full mustache riding his bike with no hands (look mom! Don't try this at home, this activity was performed by a dumb dumb) wearing skinny jeans, an electric yellow and baby blue wind breaker, electric blue neck gator, blue sunglasses and electric yellow helmet. Selfie of Davy wearing an electric yellow wind breaker, an electric blue neck gator pulled up just below the nose, blue sunglasses, and an electric yellow helmet outside with a bright blue sky, a few fluffy clouds and some trees bearing no leaves.
February 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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#vineyard #orchard #plantpathology
A spore trap stands between two rows of dormant grapevines in a snow-covered vineyard. The battery box is nearly completely buried under the snow, and the spore trap itself is partially covered. The grapevines have thick double trunks with unpruned, wild canes. Above, the sky is crystal clear blue. A closer view of a spore trap in a snow-covered vineyard. Snow covers the main chassis of the trap, the solar panel, and the rain splash brim of the sampling head. Dormant grapevines along trellises are visible in the background under a clear blue sky. A close-up of the sampling head of a spore trap with a significant amount of snow on the rain splash brim. A large chunk of snow and ice is blocking the air sampling nozzle. Apple trees are visible in the background under a clear blue sky. A person (Davy) wearing a black Outdoor Research baseball cap and a bright electric blue coat smiles with a mustache, squinting from the bright snow-reflected sun, and gives a thumbs up. They are standing in front of a spore trap with the main chassis panel open and snow covering the rain splash brim of the sampling head. A few dormant apple trees are visible in the background.
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Exactly one year ago, trekking through the vineyard snow with a freshly charged and weather blanket wrapped battery to keep my spore trap running strong. #ThrowbackThursday #Fieldwork #DoItForTheVine
A person (Davy) wearing a bright electric blue winter coat and matching bright electric blue mirrored aviator sunglasses takes a selfie in a snow-covered vineyard. They are carrying a battery wrapped in a bright orange weather blanket over their shoulder. Footprints mark a snowy path leading to a spore trap visible in the distance, standing between rows of dormant grapevines under a clear blue sky.
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Happy Mildew Monday! Poor vines never stood a chance against our humid Minnesota summers. #fungi #grapevines #plantpathology
A close-up of a grapevine canopy in mid-summer, featuring a single leaf at the center of the image. Behind it, red shoots and other green leaves with serrated margins are visible. The central leaf shows areas of white-ish mycelia around some of the veins, indicating powdery mildew. A close-up of a single grapevine leaf held in a hand, appearing somewhat pale due to the overcast of white mycelium from powdery mildew. The mycelium is concentrated around the veins, where water tends to pool, with a few droplets on the leaf’s surface.
January 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In 2025, I hope you sniff out all the best mushrooms. 🪵🍄🐶 @fruitgal.bsky.social #fungifriday #fungifriends
A rounded, ovular mushroom emerging from a decaying fallen log. The outer layer, resembling a light brown skin, has split open to reveal a darker interior with a bumpy, wet texture, which might remind you of something familiar... 🤔 Wide-angle close-up of the snout of SNP, a long-coated, mocha brown Border Collie. He’s inside a crate, with his long tongue hanging out and a big smile, showing off his pearly white canines. His nose has an oval shape, with a bumpy, wet texture from the papillae, which might remind you of something familiar... 🤔
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Happy Thick Trunk Tuesday! Alas, they became too 'busty' to manage, and the park services had the #gall to cut them down. #plantpathology
A large tree towers over a bike trail next to a parking lot, with a giant gall encircling the upper trunk. The tree has no leaves, as it's early spring. A red road bike is propped against the tree. In the background, a few cars are parked in the lot, with a forest and lake visible further away.
January 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Happy Mushroom Monday to the greenhouse grapevine's #fungifriends!
A close-up of a young grapevine growing in a pot in a greenhouse, with four yellow mushrooms emerging from the soil at its base. The mushrooms, commonly known as greenhouse parasols, are bright, pale sulfur yellow, deepening to a brighter yellow at the base of their stipes. They feature a clear stem ring, speckled scales on top of their caps, and the edges of the caps are stirrated and grooved.
January 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Everyones loves a lil shaggy ink cap mushroom. Happy #FungiFriday my #FungiFriends 🍄
January 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Great question! I describe the spore traps as "overpriced vaccumes"

1. Air is sucked in
2. A cyclone is made
3. Particles (spores, pollen, etc.) are thrown and stick to collection tube walls
4. Exiting air moves up through center of cylone

Here's a pic of the sampling head without the helmet on.
Annotated picture of a Burkard Multi-Vial Cyclone Sampler (also known as a spore trap) head without its helmet/cover. The image illustrates the path of air: starting at the air inlet, moving through a cylindrical aluminum piece where the cyclone forms, then into a labeled microcentrifuge tube for particle collection. The air continues upward, passing through the created cyclone, past the air inlet, and around to the back where it exits through the air pump. The internal components include tightly fitting pieces of machined aluminum and steel, along with a few 3D-printed black components. Picture of a Burkard Multi-Vial Cyclone Sampler (also known as a spore trap) head without its helmet/cover. The sampler head reveals internal components made of tightly fitting machined aluminum and steel, along with a few black 3D-printed pieces. A set of microcentrifuge tubes is visible, arranged in a revolver-like piece.
January 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#vineyard #orchard #plantpathology #fieldwork
A mustachioed man (Davy) takes a selfie in a snow-covered vineyard. He's sporting a bright yellow coat, a blue undershirt, reflective blue aviator sunglasses, and a maroon University of Minnesota Fruit Research baseball cap. Way off in the distance, a spore trap sits between rows of grapevines. A spore trap sits along a row of bare apple trees in a snow-covered orchard. The trees have numerous water sprouts growing vertically. Next to the spore trap, a much taller tripod with a solar panel mounted at a particular angle to capture the most of the Minnesota winter sun extends just above the expected canopy height. An orange battery box is located below the green spore trap. A mustachioed man (Davy) takes a selfie in a snow-covered orchard. He's sporting a bright yellow coat, a blue undershirt, reflective blue aviator sunglasses, and a maroon University of Minnesota Fruit Research baseball cap. A few apples still cling to the branches of some trees. A spore trap sits slightly hidden along one of the rows of trees. A close-up of a Burkard multivial cyclone spore trap. It features a dark green chasse body mounted between the tripod legs. The sampling head, with a rainslash brim above the air sampling nozzle and a tail fin, is mounted on top of the legs. The battery box is located below the chasse body and is wrapped in a bright orange weather blanket.
January 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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One year ago, checking on my trap, hoping it was still sucking up the spores of new #fungifriends #throwbackthursday
A dark green tripod spore trap, flagged with bright orange tape for safety (hypothetically because someone ran into it with a golf cart), stands close to a gnarled grapevine in a snow-covered vineyard. A bright orange weather blanket protects the battery box below, and a solar panel is mounted to the side of the tripod at an angle to maximize winter sun exposure, ensuring this trap keeps collecting spores even in the harsh Minnesota winter.
January 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Happy Tuesday to all my #FungiFriends
Underside shot of a tan bracket fungus with maze-like pores growing on a tree stump in a sunny forest. A small red figurine with a long pointy nose a leaf sprouting from its head (a Pikmin), peers over the edge of the fungus to see the intricate underside.
January 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Happy mold monday to all my #plantpathology and #fungifriends 🍎🪵🍄
Top-down view of a petri dish holding a fungal culture of 𝑫𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒂 (isolate 1194), identified through ITS sequencing. The culture, 29 days post-inoculation, spreads like a dark, velvety web with eerie gray tufts of fluffy aerial mycelia creeping across the surface. Grown on malt extract agar, this hauntingly beautiful isolate was collected from apple tree wood in a Minnesota orchard.
January 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Seven years ago, this little void of fluff claimed my heart and my lap. Happy Gotcha Day to the one and only Digalu—provider of purrs, chaos, and endless love!
A selfie taken in a car with a man (Davy) in a yellow tank top and a baseball cap holding a very dignified black cat with bright yellow eyes (Digalu). Both have equally intense, wide-eyed expressions, as if they're ready to solve mysteries or take on the world. The cat, with its luxurious black fur and name tag gleaming, exudes pure sass and power. Clearly, this duo means business—or maybe just snacks.
January 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM