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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 1d

The pattern of the apothecia on this crustose lichen is eye catching #fungifriends

Grey lichen with black small apothecia in a bullseye pattern, found in North Carolina

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 1d

I like them even more when they catch all the last mosquitoes!

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! 105 mm f2.8 lens; f9 and 1/100s

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 3d

These are great!

Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! They are so weird-looking (to me)

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 4d

She is beautiful #invertebrate

A large orb weaver hanging in the center of her web

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 5d

Getting in the Halloween mood with this predatory stink bug #invertebrate

Euthyrhynchus floridanus, a black and red shield bug on a white wall

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 8d

Three fairy caps (one crumbling), such delicate beauties #fungifriends

Two tiny white mushrooms and one tan mushroom remnant growing out of dark brown tree bark

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 10d

Feeling a bit crabby this morning #invertebrate

A small sand colored crab guarding its burrow in the sand

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Susan Grimbly🇨🇦 @sgrimbly.bsky.social · 11d

calling all entomologists: what type of insect is this? very small - the size of a en dash or so #insect #bug #entomologist

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 12d

These are fungi? Right? #fungifriends

Black bulbous, clustered fungi on tree bark (with a small shiny snail trail to the right)

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 12d

My pleasure! They are rather large but peaceful, very focused on getting some mud

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 13d

Quick phone snap of this beautiful mud dauber daubing at Kahana Valley state park #insect #invertebrate

Shiny black mud dauber wasp rolling a ball of mud

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 15d

Not the clearest photo but I believe these are isidia on this foliose lichen? #fungifriends

Gray-green foliose lichen with small coral shaped isidia protruding from the thallus

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 17d

They always make my day!

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 17d

A peaceful Nēnē for these turbulent times #birdsky

A Nēnē goose foraging in the greenery around Kilauea Lighthouse on Kauai

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Maui Now @mauinow.com · 22d

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from "Star Wars" has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert from the University of Hawaiʻi.

#ChewbaccaCoral #UHManoa

Chewbacca coral: New deep-sea species spotted in waters off Hawai‘i, Mariana Trench

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from "Star Wars" has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert from the University of Hawaiʻi.

mauinow.com

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