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Mycobadger Lorinda
@mycobadger.bsky.social
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Field Museum volunteer, fungaphile, IMA board, NAMA, WMS and MOMS member. Happy to talk about, look at or go hunting for fungi.

"Out in the woods, up to no good, I wanna make friends with the Badger"
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Spent the day talking fungi at the first Central Illinois Fungi Fest in Urbana today. Ellen and Connor and the Urbana Park District put on an excellent event. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalasdociation #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople
Acrylic rainbow art piece with dried fungi by #heylookmushrooms Two attendees wearing mushroom costumes they made, standing outdoors with vintage mushroom replicas in a teaching box from the Field Museum Myself and Ken with the Illinois Mycological Association merchandise table outside under an oak tree Left to right, A Park District staff member, Connor and Ellen standing around a table with crocheted mushrooms and other drawing prizes
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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IMA Survey with many of my favorite mushroom people today. #fungi #hongos #fungifriends #mushrooms #illinoismycologicalassociation
Club members gather around to discuss the day's fungi finds. Gymnopilius gills, with a little stipe. Gymnopilius gills with clumps of spores along the edges, and a bit of the stipe Pores of a "ishnodema-like" fungi, with little white droplets of fluid.
September 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Riding in on the blue line today, the car smelled lovely, like maple syrup and pancakes. Turns out I had a candy cap mushroom in my hoodie pocket. Don't remember picking it #mushroomproblems #fungifriends #hongos #mushrooms #pocketsurprise #mushrooms
Tiny dried cap of a Lacterius sp. fungi sitting in the palm of a hand.
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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NAMA New England 2025, AKA fungi fun in Vermont. #NAMA #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #fungifriends
Two fungi friends trying to knock a hericoum fungi out of a tree Neat black crust fungi on a stick Layered polypores on a tree White fungi gills with tiny insects between them
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Survey at Miami Woods Forest Preserve with @illinoismyco.bsky.social . Amanitas and spore-ing gills. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #fungifriends #illinoismycologicalassociation
Amanita mushroom with a yellow cap, yellow veil remnant (the ring on the stipe), and a stipe with various textures. Amanita abrupta: white mushroom with spiky, warty cap and a very broad stipe at the base. Amanita, possibly velatipes, mushroom l. Tan to yellow cap with warts, thick stipe and a slightly bulbous cup at the base Gills of a Cortinarius mushroom that are thickly covered in brown spores.
September 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Lovely gills on display today at the #smithforay #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #hongos #setas
Laccaria trullasata gills, purple. Mushroom fruit body @tolleston dunes Amanita gills @tolleston dunes
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Another lovely day in the woods with friends!
Cortinarius rubripes mushroom with toy badger for scale Cortinarius sp. With purple stipe and gills with toy badger for scale Callistosporium purpureomarginatum, lovely bright red/purple fungi, with a light yellowish edge. Laccaria ochropurpurea mushroom, very wide base with a little cap.
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Fun times in the lab last week! WTTW visited.
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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An #illinoismycologicalassociation friend found this beast of a fungi. Shoved it in a fridge, fingers crossed it stays fresh enough to display at the #Chicagobotanicgarden Fungi Show this Sunday. #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #fungus
An exceedingly large puffball mushroom, Calvatia gigantia, covers a stovetop.
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Leucoagaricus americanus, a favorite mulch loving fungi. They stain red. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #gooutside
Fungi in mulch next to a fire hydrant. Young fungi in mulch
August 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A lovely reading spot on a lovely day. #readbannedbooks #seminarycoopbookstore #booksky #gooutside
August 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Rickanella fibula, teensy, tiny moss fungi. On the Owasippe Scout Camp blue trail #moss #mushroom #hongo #fungi #Edaphoecotropism
Tiny orange fungi, rickanella fibula, growing in moss. Toy badger for scale. Patch of moss in pine duff, With tiny orange fungi, rickanella fibula. Closer look at Rickanella fibula gills against a white background. Blue trail markers being grown around by a tree. Also known as Edaphoecotropism. The process in which living tissue, such as a treetree surrounds or engulfs objects.
July 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Hiked part of the Red trail at Owasippe Scout Camp yesterday and found 4 kinds of chanterelles #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #outsidewithmykiddoandpals
Craterellus type chanterelle, bright yellow stipe with paler ridges Chanterelle with packed, forking ridges. Bright yellow cap with slightly muted underside Phasmatis type chanterelle. Bright yellow cap, with creamy white underside and deep ridges Cinabrinus chanterelle, peachy pink with sharp ridges.
July 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Another survey with @illinoismyco.bsky.social at Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Kane County. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalassociation
Galiella rufa fungi, brown bulbous cup with a cream top, on a stick being held in a hand. Pleurotus sp., oyster mushrooms, white fungi with gill side showing. Pleurotus citrinopileatus, golden oyster fungi, cluster of fungi with white gills showing below yellow caps. Schizophyllum commune, split gill fungi, with very fuzzy caps
July 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Highlight of my day is finding out a second species on iNat features one of my pictures. #fungi #mushrooms #iNaturalist
iNaturalist page on Gymnopus subsulphureus featuring a picture of the fungi that I took. iNaturalist page on Caulorhiza hygrophoroides featuring a picture of the fungi that I took.
June 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Fun day in the field. The lab crew, some IMA folks and Thomas Roehl went looking for, and found, Lentinus tigrinus mushrooms for an ongoing project @Clark University. Pretty golden oysters too! #mushrooms #fungi #research #illinoismycologicalassociation
Golden oyster fungi, pleurotus citrinopileatus, clusters on stump and log. Large cluster of golden oysters with toy badger on top. White spores visible on cap surfaces Thomas Roehl standing on a pile of logs, unable to safely get to log with large Lentinus tigrinus fungi in the Des Plaines River. Top of Lentinus tigrinus fungi on well rotted stump.
May 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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An IMA member found one of Dr. P. Leacock's "Most Wanted" fungi today!
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Heliocybe sulcata fungi with toy badger on stump. Close up of Heliocybe sulcata fungi edge with pleats (sulcate)and stipe. Heliocybe sulcata growing out of decaying log (decorticate, or without bark). Tail of toy badger. Table full of fungi surrounded by members of the Illinois Mycological Association.
May 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I grew up to be the kind of person who is ecstatic to have a garden toad.
Toad in a garden
May 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Awesome former club president, and current scientific advisor Matt Nelsen was on WGN talking about fungi and The Last of Us. Thank you for the IMA shout out Matt! #fungi #mushrooms #cordyceps #iilinoismycologicalassociation #lastofus

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Understanding Fungi & Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
YouTube video by WGN News
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May 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A fungi filled walk in the woods today.
Three morel mushrooms and a toy badger Morchella punctipes mushroom Caulorhiza hygrophoroides mushroom Gills of Caulorhiza hygrophoroides.
May 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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It was a good day to be out in the woods and up to no good. #fungi #mushrooms #springephemerals #noticks
Tiny Morel family fungi, with toy badger for scale Trout lily flower Galerina sp. fungi
April 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Protesting. #handsoff #standupforscience #prochoice
Don't tread on me flag, with a uterine theme From Spanish "F*CK your MAGA Department of education protest sign "Hands off my daughter's IEP" on sign
April 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Suburban local election early voting happening NOW. Election Day is April 1st here. Being involved with your school board elections is more important than ever.
I voted sticker, and voter ballot style slip from 2025 local election
March 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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DNA based nomenclature changes provoke strong feelings for many people. And provide tons of entertainment for me, pass the popcorn!
#mushrooms #fungi #nomenclature #hongos #morels #falsemorels

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Photos and descriptions of "false morel" fungi Photos with new names edited out of "false morel" fungi Meme about not using the new names, while still mocking common names of "false morels" Another meme for continuing to use previous latin names for "false morel" fungi. "Gonna die on this hill"
March 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM