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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
jalenpDescription
Growing on Rhododendron canescens
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
fountainfungiDescription
Specimens collected for microscopic analysis @pucak @lappelbaum
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
fountainfungiDescription
Observed on multiple, older R. canescens specimens growing on a slope next to gulleys on either side going into our pond. Some specimens were up to 15-20 feet tall. Some galls larger as they progressed into a white frosty texture. Seems to make a flat surface sometimes folding. Found on different specimens 50 feet from each other. Older forest some white oaks and other trees pushing 100 years old. Lots of sycamores, persimmons and tulip poplars nearby. Galls forming on both flower and leaves, with multiple galls forming on one leaf site.
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
eric_showsDescription
Found on several leaves of Rhododendron sp (likely R. canescens). Maybe E. rhododendri or E. vaccinii (based on visual comparisons) but I’m REALLY unsure.
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
tgregory74Description
Very common on this species of Azalea. Almost every individual encountered at this site had some amount of galls.
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
nativmsDescription
On wild azalea (likely rhododendron canecsens).
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
dwabramsDescription
Growing on native azalea. Squirrels were feeding enthusiastically on them.
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
frogjimmyDescription
Attached to a Wild Azalea, what is it?
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
tavennerDescription
growing on the leaf tips of swamp azalea
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Genus ExobasidiumObserver
lauramorganclarkDescription
See the Leaf Gall section of this article: http://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=B670
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Spiny Witch-Hazel Gall Aphid (Hamamelistes spinosus)Observer
ahalbrooDescription
Interesting growth on a plant. Normal growth, fungal, bacterial? I'm not sure.
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Life (Life)Observer
cfaDescription
This image is crop of image associated with moss observation.
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Fairy Pins (Phaeocalicium polyporaeum)Observer
t7iguyDescription
on Trichaptum biforme (Violet-toothed Polypore)
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Lucerneflea (Sminthurus viridis)Observer
sararuthDescription
just chillin in the saxicolous lichens 😉
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
sararuthPlace
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, Texas Chenier Plain Refuges Complex, 4017 Farm to Market Rd 563, Wallisville, TX 77597, USA (Google, OSM)Description
wow, 🤩 what a fantastic lichen
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Chernetid Pseudoscorpions (Family Chernetidae)Observer
peterhmaDescription
At a light sheet.
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Globular Springtails (Order Symphypleona)Observer
amberenergyDescription
Extremely tiny 2mm - hopped away like a flea
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stevenw12339Description
Adults under a rock, associated with these nymphs:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69781614
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Wingleaf Primrose-Willow (Ludwigia decurrens)Observer
janetwrightDescription
Wet edge of golf course, mixed with Ludwigia octovalvis. Like octovalvis it has 4-petal yellow flowers with 8 stamens, lanceolate leaves, and elongated seed capsules, but the capsules are shorter than L octovalvis, and leaf petioles have decurrent wings down the stem.
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Fly-speck Leaf Spot (Ophiodothella vaccinii)Observer
flowntheloopDescription
Fungus on Vaccinium sp. on a forested trail.
From Page 44 of “Diseases of Trees and Shrubs - 2nd Edition” by Wayne A. Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon:
This inconsequential disease, which affects species of Gaylusaccia and Vaccinium, is caused by Ophiodothella vaccinii and characterized by distinctive colorful lesions...The pathogen occurs widely in southeastern USA and also in Illinois and California.
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Tortricid Leafroller Moths and Allies (Superfamily Tortricoidea)Observer
guidingguidaDescription
In frass at the bottom of the inside of a Poplar Petial Gall Aphid gall
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Script Lichens and Allies (Family Graphidaceae)Observer
sararuthDescription
Lichen are such unexpected and delightful artists!
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Northern Speckled Limpkin (Aramus guarauna ssp. pictus)Observer
sararuthDescription
Lovely Limpkin sighting today out in Montgomery County. Quite tame and I was able to take these photos with my macro lens. It was all I had with me … did the best I could with what I had. Observed this delightful bird hunting mussels - finds one, beats it on the shoreline and then carries it back to the water and gives it a swoosh around … then it ends up in a neat little pile. There were numerous neat, little piles … photos showing mussel type added shortly.
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Bloody Comma Lichen (Arthonia cinnabarina)Observer
sararuthDescription
Ai is suggesting Bloody Comma. I don’t know. Many of these mixed in with various scriptas and other crustose lichens on Yaupon Holly and in deep shade woodland setting.
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Candleflame Lichen (Candelaria concolor)Observer
sararuthDescription
Extremely small specimen tucked away partially under another (removed for photo) foliose lichen species. Growing on Oak sp. (I think) Large branch is windfall - Many other species of lichens and even tiny mosses growing alongside it.
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Bloody Comma Lichen (Arthonia cinnabarina)Observer
sararuthDescription
Submission is for upper “left” lichen not lower right script lichen. I will re-photograph and submit … as it was raining and specimen was wet. I think this may well be the correct id though.
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North American Racer (Coluber constrictor)Observer
isaact06Description
Butter milk and yellow belly racer intergrade.
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Ichneumonid Wasps (Family Ichneumonidae)Observer
pttrsnDescription
Tiny wasp-like insect. Actively feeling around the leaf with its antennae. On American Hornbeam
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Broad-banded Watersnake (Nerodia fasciata ssp. confluens)Observer
kristinaprapuolenis
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White Firewheel (Gaillardia aestivalis var. winkleri)Observer
oceanicwildernessDescription
Lots of variation in this population
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Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)Observer
neilandsharonDescription
I've never seen or heard of a nearly all black kingfisher. Is it juvenile? A known variant? A different species?
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Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa)Observer
truthseqrDescription
This was an interesting one. It had both white and purple flowers on the same stem.
(Brush Trail)
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bitDescription
RLC726 Photo 2 by Bitty Roy, the rest by Bryn Dentinger; used with permission. This fungus-killed wasp is biting the edge of a leaf and was basically at eye level on a leaf on the trail to the Los Cedros river, right after going out the gate from HQ.
