A triple-threat! Three new Ear-pick fungi sprout from an old Ear-pick fungus sprouting the more typical way from a Douglas fir cone. Another shriveled up sibling fungi lilts a bit to the right all shriveled and far less cool without anything sprouting from their noggin. Note that the 3x have a couple of other knots attempting to become fruiting body. The older fungi are a dark brown with the one sprouting children out of their head still presenting a few teeth sticking out from under their cap. The 3x younger ones have a reddish brown stem with a lighter colored tan cap. A composite of 36 pictures were focus stacked to generate this single image.

These were an absolute treat to find today!

Successional Ear-pick fungi, Auriscalpium vulgare.
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#Fungi #Moss #Photography

A pair of snowplants. Love these alien looking parasitic plants.

A newt is walking from the left towards the right of the picture. The newt is a blueish dark grey on most of its body. On its lower sides it has black spots on a white background. The belly and throat is bright orange. Behind the newt is a reddish brown rock.

🦎Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris)

Max. size 120 mm (4.7").

Found in Europe from France in the west to Romania and Bulgaria in the east. It's found as far north as Denmark and as far south as Greece.

Considered Least Concern by the IUCN.

📷by furbymama on Pixabay

a photograph of an ensatina salamander adult next to a tiny juvenile ensatina. the juvenile is a tiny copy of the adult. the salamanders are reddish-brown with an orange belly and legs.

don’t talk to me or my son ever again

Fly larva with a fake termite face can infiltrate termite mounds and socialize Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant spider, are experts at misdirection and their ability to confuse predators ...

The paper describes how the fly larvae imitate termites and infiltrate their nests: phys.org/news/2025-02...

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Love this black and red lanternfly. Gives Darth Maul vibes. If anyone has any idea for an ID on this guy, please let me know. I feel like it’s from the genus Aphaena but none fit the description closely.

#macrophotography #macro #nature #photography #science

An illustration of a banana slug holding a red mug with white spots underneath a matching red and white spotted fly agaric mushroom. The slug is drinking green tea. They are yellow with brown spots. The mushroom and slug are on some green moss, with green handwritten text underneath that reads “Embrace Coziness” in all uppercase. The background is a vibrant light blue.

Embrace coziness 😴🍄🌧️

White leafhopper - Pagaronia triunata. A very old photo of mine, probably one of the first photos I took that I was pretty excited about at the time.

#nature #leafhopper #photography #macro #macrophotography

A leaf is colonized by a fungus that divides it into irregularly-shaped light-colored regions, with thin black boundary lines between. There are dark spots within some of the regions. The whole thing looks uncannily like an old paper map.

Map fungus (Coccomyces dentatus) 🍄📷
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An illustration of a Polyphemus moth against a dark deep blue-purple background. Near the moth is a redwood branch with leaves and a cone, redwood sorrel, and redwood rooter fungi. Orange text is arching above and below and reads “Take a walk in the forest”.

Take a walk in the forest ✨

Ever see a green moth? Species of emerald moth(Herochroma cristata)

#moth #nature #macrophotography #macro #photography

Sumatra Forest Dragon(Gonocephalus beyschlagi)

#nature #macrophotography #photography #macro #lizard #forest

Oh I didn't even know this existed. That's definitely useful! Thanks!

I am enjoying Bluesky but I am finding it hard to find new nature photographers to follow on here.

Let's make a thread to help find new likeminded accounts! Reply and repost this so people can find other great photographers on here!

I love this tiny coral slime mold star. Hard to believe these things are not aliens sometimes 😂

#nature #slimemold #fungifriends #macrophotography #photography #forest #fungi

Tiny jumping spider friend

#nature #macro #jumpingspider #macrophotography #photography

One of my favorite isopods(porcellio hoffmannseggi).

#nature #isopod #macro #macrophotography #photography #bug #insect

A tiny gnat sitting on top of a Hygrocybe mushroom.

#macrophotography #photography #mushroom #macro #fungus #nature #fungifriends

Frog Friday!

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Instead of worrying about the dumpster fire that is the US gov’t. Let’s enjoy this little salamander.

#nature #salamander #macrophotography #photography #macro

An oldie but a goodie. A little panda isopod curled up.

#nature #isopod #macrophotography #photography #macro

Ikr? And to make it even better, the blue color is actually coming from their blood. They have bright blue blood and their skin is slightly transparent 😂

0 thoughts in his little head. Just vibes.

Good question, if you find out please let me know 😅 keeping it simple with just #planthopper but that doesn’t include froghoppers, lanternflies, or cicadas. All of which I feel should go under a similar hash tag if possible. #auchenorrhyncha doesn’t roll off the tongue well but it’s most accurate.

I believe it is a type of huntsman. According to iNat and some friends, it’s a Heteropoda Boiei. However, I have my suspicions, with DNA sequencing. That species will eventually get broken up into multiple others. From what I have seen, there is just too much variation for them to all be boiei.

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#frog #nature #macrophotography #macro #photography #science #froge

Little gem of a beetle. Lychee Shield Beetle(Chrysocoris Stollii)

#nature #macrophotography #beetle #photography #macro

Curious Orangutan watching us eat lunch.

Springtail party on some witches butter fungus

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