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3:00 snapshot #1387: nature and almost nature in the yard.

urbpan Sep 09, 2013 20:59

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spiders, tracking, id help, caterpillar, black raspberry, japanese knotweed, bugguide, contentment cottage, alexis, english garden snail, gardening, 3:00 snapshot

Rainy weekend wildlife

urbpan Sep 02, 2013 10:16

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mushrooms, polypores, hymenoptera, id help, insects, parasites, wood decay fungi, wasps, ichneumon, honey mushrooms

Brooklyn Nature, part one:

urbpan Jul 25, 2013 21:23

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pigeons, spiders, plants, mosses, water lilies, id help, public art, slime molds, new york, alexis, fuligo septica, duckweed, virginia creeper

Urban Nature Walk in Bussey Brook Meadow

urbpan Jul 01, 2013 20:07

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butterflies, id help, lj friends, urban nature walk, boston, black raspberries, quince rust, plants, dragonflies, mushrooms, exuvia, arnold arboretum, fungi, bird's nest fungus, weeds, coprinoid mushrooms, snails

Mushrooms at the zoo: unraveling a mystery of my own making

urbpan Jun 30, 2013 08:23

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wood decay fungi, mushrooms, gloeophyllum, id help, fungi

In the realm of the Mushroom People

urbpan Jun 25, 2013 10:40

The word "epic" is overused on the internet, but this thread that I started on the FUNGI magazine Facbook page regarding the identification of this mushroom:

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other blogs, mushrooms, mycology, id help

Life among the spiderwort

urbpan Jun 22, 2013 10:28

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hover fly, contentment cottage, hymenoptera, id help, flies, grasshoppers

Identify this gall!

urbpan Jun 04, 2013 21:44

The host plant is ground ivy (or creeping Charlie or Glechoma hederacea). Third picture show gall split open, to reveal a single maggot or wasp grub. Anyone know what this gall-making insect is?

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id help, insects, galls

Visiting (meeting) LJ friends #3, #4; May Urban Nature Walk

urbpan May 11, 2013 19:53

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the muddy river, id help, public art, lj friends, flies, the riverway, alex, dad, urban nature walk, flowering crabapple

3:00 snapshot #1265: yard work and yard creatures

urbpan May 07, 2013 19:31

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id help, alex, maggie, american robin, beetles, contentment cottage, alexis, 3:00 snapshot, european paper wasp