A ladybug in center on a lamp base. The beetle is infected with a yellow fungus around its back end.

The Hesperomyces has begun to spread among the invasive ladybugs that moved in to weeks ago. Third year, the pattern has become predictable.
#laboul #ladybug #fungi 🍄

Centered, a orange and black ladybug with yellow fungal infection around its posterior

Centered, a orange and black ladybug facing left with yellow fungal infection around its posterior

It’s finally ladybird move in day here in NY. Approximately 150 have moved in for the winter so far, but only one showing signs of Hesperomyces. We typically see more and more infections over the next few weeks. #TeamLabouls #Laboulbeniales

On some unmowed grass rests a centered group of Chalciporus arranged to show the flesh, the cap, the stalk and the pores along with blue bruising of the pore surface in the center.

Nothing to see here, just posting a spicy photo on the Internet. 😹 Chalciporus piperatoides from New York.

I wonder if it’s fruiting so aggressively in this drought because it’s parasitizing a muscaroid that’s struggling?
#Boletes #mycology 🍄🍄‍🟫

It’s abject stupidity, it just drives the creation of workarounds.
I can push junk commits that look like work from a cron job for gitprime, AI users will similarly waste resources to check a task box with minimal effort while not actually achieving the productivity increase the metric wants.

I hope quoting is less “let me tell you what to do” than replying but a thought:

There’s nothing free from companies like Google. We’re just not charged at the point of use.

It would be in all our interests to not BandAid and Kleenex that brand of Internet search engine anymore.

Screenshot shows a preview of the Blue sky reporting service emphasizing the misleading nature of the original article.

Yah… no.
This is a stretch of a spin even for Forbes.

Yes. Laetiporus cincinnatus to be specific

AFAIK yeah they are, and like I am comfortable it’s not in the breeding group with any of the major invasives (unless I’m way off and it’s closer to R.rugosa?).
But I’m just nerdy enough to go get it DNA barcoded if I can’t establish a good enough ID. Gotta have an accurate catalog of the garden :)

Yeah, but they’re not doing well for pink double roses unfortunately.
Getting suggestions from them around Rosa majalis but there’s so many options in that group and each one I’ve keyed it out to in Erlanson’s key has been missing a notable feature, not that I’ve much experience keying roses.

Back to ad hominem.
This is a pretty boring thing. It can’t even troll effectively, just keeps repeating the same ineffectual crap.
Oh well, let’s go find another one; maybe it’ll have something akin to working cognition.

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I said logos, not pathos.
Try again.

A circle chart indicating that my food preferences are weighted towards lower middle class foods.

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Caution… don’t take while hungry.
Also, I’m nearly convinced it overweights the Mac and cheese varieties.
First time I took the quiz I was all… yes all the Mac and cheese, and all the dials were turned like all the way up.

Aww, it thinks I’m a lib…
Yup, it’s not even as smart as the average chat bot.
Inferior.

Strike two.
Maybe it wants to make more stupid guesses showing us it can’t think for itself and just repeats platitudes, or maybe it will try that logos thing…
Or maybe it will just give us a recipe for blueberry muffins.
It’s about what things at its cognitive level are useful for.

See, all it can do is parrot stuff its heard from boomer media. It can’t even make contextual arguments.

Maybe we should ask it about blueberry muffins, but I’m pretty sure its not even that smart.

Aww, one of those poor people the GOP victimized when they wrecked public education. Sad to see it can’t get two neurons to fire in a row unless it’s for ad hominem so I thought I’d offer it some in kind.
Maybe it can try some logos… not sure it knows what that is. It’s all sad little pathos.

A close up of Rose leaves in the center, over a mulch background.

A pink rose in the center with leaves of various weeds composing the background

A close up of the stem and stipules of a rose in the center, leaves infringing from the top and bottom.

Any #rose enthusiasts out there that can help me identify this #plant?
Found in New York at a remote cabin foundation where there were most likely German immigrants in the early to mid 19th century.
I have a cutting growing I can get more info from; but the old stems are pretty pruinose.
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I think so too, but after Secret Origins she went from a Rappaccini’s Daughter trope to a less literal kind of poison.
I mainly see your plant posts, are you a comic reader too? I’m digging newest Poison Ivy run, some of the covers sorta look more Toxicodendron. I really liked Feral Trees crossover.

Is it the Dr. Lillian Rose or Dr. Pamela Isley thing?
We can blame Neil Gaiman for this.

In the front center a tall Bulgarian Columbine, a few dwarf hybrids in a row behind it, and a few native red columbine just out of frame to the right and behind the dwarf varieties. A large rock in the mulch to the left, and a sugar maple frames the picture on the right.

Close up of a Bulgarian Columbine in the center, a maple behind to the right. Pines across a road form the background

Close up of a Bulgarian Columbine flower, a maple behind to the right and pines in the background across the road

We have a few different columbines in the garden. The straight native Aquilegia canadensis, a few dwarf party mix hybrids to suck up the leaf miners and add some color, and this one Bulgarian Columbine I domesticated from where it was found during an invasive weed cleanup event.
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At the bottom, lavender plants are ringed with field stones. A strip of grass just above that, and the brown cut of bare soil separating it from the meadow above. The near tree line at the far end on the meadow yields to the whaleback across the valley. Above the far hill a pink and purple sky interrupted by a few locust branches.

Sunset over the meadow.
#sunset #photography #landscape 🌅

A pink lady slipper flower occupies the center of the image, a pine tree is directly behind, a few branches and pine needles make up the background.

A pink lady slipper close up in the center against a background of pine needles and the bottom of a few pine trees.

Visited a little patch of pink lady slippers

Several orange parrot wax caps (upper center) and one still green (lower center) stand out from a background of grasses, moss, strawberry, and yarrow

A fishing spider (center) straddles a concrete block (upper) and piece of lumber (lower)

A spider that helps with pest control around the house, and some Gliophorus around the homestead today.

A line of Mitrula across the middle of the photo occupy their place in a leafy puddle occupying most of the image background. Near the top a small slice of the forest in the distance

Bog Beacons! One of my favorite #fungi this seasonal stream was full of Mitrula elegans today. 🍄

A cluster of beige agrocybe in the center flanked by the green foliage of a Lavendar plant.

The Agrocybe like our lavendar bed too.

A purple Iris shot up close with a flower bed of green and a White House behind

A purple bearded Iris with a flower bed of green and a White House behind

Some Iris have started to bloom

A Poet’s Narcissus against fallen leaves

Found this little patch of Poet’s Narcissus way deep in some back woods with no sign of any old cabins or the usual developments nearby. Wonder how it got here…
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A small group of chocolate brown mushrooms sits on some long needle pine duff. In the top left, a pair of fruit bodies are overturned showing light brown gills and a mat of white mycelium at the base.

Cortinarius suberythrinus at one of its perennial spring locations along my Morel hunting trails

A wild plum seedling emerges from a bed of straw.

Last summer I bought a peck of some wild plums, and didn’t eat them all before they went a bit moldy. So, I dug a bit of a trench along the edge of the strawberry patch, poured the plums along it, and covered them up. Lo and behold… I’ve got a row of plum seedlings coming up. 🌱 #nativeplants

A patch of pink tulips under planted with strawberries

Pink tulip with a purple center

Pink tulip with a purple center

Pink tulip with a purple center

🌱 Almost obligatory, the house came with these lovely Tulips