Specimens collected for microscopic analysis @pucak @lappelbaum
Observed on multiple, older R. canescens specimens growing on a slope next to gulleys on either side going into our pond. Some specimens were up to 15-20 feet tall. Some galls larger as they progressed into a white frosty texture. Seems to make a flat surface sometimes folding. Found on different specimens 50 feet from each other. Older forest some white oaks and other trees pushing 100 years old. Lots of sycamores, persimmons and tulip poplars nearby. Galls forming on both flower and leaves, with multiple galls forming on one leaf site.
Found on several leaves of Rhododendron sp (likely R. canescens). Maybe E. rhododendri or E. vaccinii (based on visual comparisons) but I’m REALLY unsure.
Very common on this species of Azalea. Almost every individual encountered at this site had some amount of galls.
On wild azalea (likely rhododendron canecsens).
Growing on native azalea. Squirrels were feeding enthusiastically on them.
Attached to a Wild Azalea, what is it?
growing on the leaf tips of swamp azalea
See the Leaf Gall section of this article: http://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=B670
Interesting growth on a plant. Normal growth, fungal, bacterial? I'm not sure.
This image is crop of image associated with moss observation.
on Trichaptum biforme (Violet-toothed Polypore)
just chillin in the saxicolous lichens 😉
wow, 🤩 what a fantastic lichen
At a light sheet.
Extremely tiny 2mm - hopped away like a flea
Adults under a rock, associated with these nymphs:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69781614
Wet edge of golf course, mixed with Ludwigia octovalvis. Like octovalvis it has 4-petal yellow flowers with 8 stamens, lanceolate leaves, and elongated seed capsules, but the capsules are shorter than L octovalvis, and leaf petioles have decurrent wings down the stem.
Fungus on Vaccinium sp. on a forested trail.
From Page 44 of “Diseases of Trees and Shrubs - 2nd Edition” by Wayne A. Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon:
This inconsequential disease, which affects species of Gaylusaccia and Vaccinium, is caused by Ophiodothella vaccinii and characterized by distinctive colorful lesions...The pathogen occurs widely in southeastern USA and also in Illinois and California.
In frass at the bottom of the inside of a Poplar Petial Gall Aphid gall
Lichen are such unexpected and delightful artists!
Lovely Limpkin sighting today out in Montgomery County. Quite tame and I was able to take these photos with my macro lens. It was all I had with me … did the best I could with what I had. Observed this delightful bird hunting mussels - finds one, beats it on the shoreline and then carries it back to the water and gives it a swoosh around … then it ends up in a neat little pile. There were numerous neat, little piles … photos showing mussel type added shortly.
Ai is suggesting Bloody Comma. I don’t know. Many of these mixed in with various scriptas and other crustose lichens on Yaupon Holly and in deep shade woodland setting.
Extremely small specimen tucked away partially under another (removed for photo) foliose lichen species. Growing on Oak sp. (I think) Large branch is windfall - Many other species of lichens and even tiny mosses growing alongside it.
Submission is for upper “left” lichen not lower right script lichen. I will re-photograph and submit … as it was raining and specimen was wet. I think this may well be the correct id though.
Butter milk and yellow belly racer intergrade.
Tiny wasp-like insect. Actively feeling around the leaf with its antennae. On American Hornbeam
Lots of variation in this population
I've never seen or heard of a nearly all black kingfisher. Is it juvenile? A known variant? A different species?
This was an interesting one. It had both white and purple flowers on the same stem.
(Brush Trail)
RLC726 Photo 2 by Bitty Roy, the rest by Bryn Dentinger; used with permission. This fungus-killed wasp is biting the edge of a leaf and was basically at eye level on a leaf on the trail to the Los Cedros river, right after going out the gate from HQ.