#shelf fungus

[starryspngs]

Shelf mushrooms feat. a caterpillar! Source: X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X

[drhoz]

#3431 - Fam. Ciidae - Shelf Fungus Beetles

Minute 2mm long beetles carving out neatly spaced holes in a Picipes bracket fungus.

Some of them were wandering across to visit the neighbours. According to Andras Szito at DPIRD, there were two species at work here. He was quite pleased to receive the specimen, as they didn't have any Ciids in the DPIRD collection.

Ciids are most diverse in the tropics and subtropics, and eat Polyporaceae or more rarely Corticiaceae bracket fungi. A few are commercial pests.

Paganoni Reserve, Perth.

[graveyardrabbit]

[neat-little-artblog]

Today I made some shelf fungus!

[lunarlotuscove]

Sunday, February 9th 2025 2:13 p.m.

[sherrylephotography]

@sherrylephotography

5/22 Olympic National Park, State of Washington, USA

Cap Fungus and Shelf Fungus

posted 4/23

[bocceclub]

bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis) & tinder fungus (fomes fomentarius)

[palaeosinensis]

Little mice on a forest adventure. Who doesn't dream of fantasy rodents in a scaled up world? It's almost impossible to see in the scan but all the watercolors used were metallic and it has this beautiful gem-like quality in the sun.