3:00 snapshot #1470

[urbpan]

Alex and Jim came over yesterday afternoon! They were going to come over today too but the roads were super slippery and icy and we didn't want them to dump their car in the dry retaining pond like we saw someone else do. You can see that Jim is helping me sort firewood, by taking pieces small enough for him to lift and running around with them and demanding I throw them.


Some of the firewood had creatures among it. I'm not certain if these little worms (1cm long) are annelids or nematodes.


This purple crust fungus seems easy enough to identify, but there are at least 4 scientific names for it in current contention! My favorite is Hjortstamia crassa.

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[drhoz.livejournal.com]

now there's a thing - I was wondering what the purple fungus forming a backdrop to one of my huntsman spiders was, and we apparently get the same species over here.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that someone is doing dna work to help sort out what species (singular or perhaps plural) we're looking at, and whether its cosmopolitan or is a series of purple crusty lookalikes!