In an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and essential crops are also increasingly threatened by these pathogens.
16/06/2024 - Today we met a Blusher mushroom on our travels. Whilst taking a quick snap I noticed ants moving underneath it, carrying larvae. What a magic thing to watch.
I took a video on my little camera, it's a bit fuzzy as these ants are small and my knees weren't that happy with the bending down. Plenty grumps getting back up again!
Monday morning trail run was fantastic. Sun was out, everything glistening after rainy weekend, and the Efts were on the move. #trailrunning#Mosstodon#fungi#ferns
Spent the day out at Tidbinbilla south of Canberra today. Such a great #wildlife spotting day!
Saw my first Lyrebird despite hearing them all my life! And saw my first Bandicoot! So cute and not particularly shy, so managed a video just with my phone (which I don't seem to be able to upload), so here is a still and bonus #moss and #fungi
I was in a bookshop today but they didn't have the book I wanted. So I went to the desk to see if they could order it. While I was waiting I looked at a book on the counter called A Field Guide To Tasmanian Fungi and I thought what a great book to help ID all the species I see about. I wasn't going to buy it, though, until I noticed that I knew one of the authors, who besides being a mycologist, is a keen chess player.
Some cute little mushrooms growing in the side of an old tree stump. Makes me think of a little mossy cave that the mushrooms live in, and they're peering out from the front to see if it's raining...
27/05/2024 - Evening walk after work. It was dry and even a little sunny. Massive Dryad's saddle mushrooms on a big beech tree on the other side of the road. We just had to cross to get a better look. They were pretty wow!