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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No one ever gets excited when I ask them if I can show them my ear rot of corn until I show them the starbursts produced by Fusarium inside the infected glass gem corn kernels! 🌽🎆🧫👂🧟 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Close up of several rows of an ear of Glass gem corn, an American heirloom flint corn known for its translucent, rainbow colored kernels. Many of the dark colored kernels show firework like starbursts inside each kernel, an indication that the corn has Fusarium ear rot, a common fungal disease.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With spooky season upon us AND free shipping from @bookshop.org for Anti-Prime (Oct 6 & 7), now is a great time to nab a copy of my book Rise of the Zombie Bugs! You'll meet the victims of nature's tiniest neuroscientists—zombifying fungi, wasps, flies, viruses, worms 🧟‍♀️ bookshop.org/p/books/rise...

A book cover showing illustrations of fungally-zombified ants surrounding the title "Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control" by Mindy Weisberger

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking back to that time a few years ago when I tried to grow this random fungus in the lab and ended up culturing some strange bat / spider hybrids that kept looking at me and freaking me out! 🧫🦇🕷️ #Mushrooms

A black mycelium culture with irregular and think leg like mycelium and guttation looking like sets of eyes!

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the words of Darwin: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That’s one heck of a brittlegill mushroom 😍🤩! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Known for its muted red cap and white stalk, brittlegills are easily distinguished in the forest on account of their color and brittleness (they easily break into multiple pieces if dropped or thrown). This specimen rises up from brownish leaf litter with the green forest behind it.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, I found the exact spot where summer surrendered to an eager autumn! 🍂🍁🍄🍄‍🟫 #autumn

A gravel road bisects a forest high in the mountains with trees to the left still green with late summer and trees to the right rich with autumn’s wide oranges and yellows!

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These shaggy manes are basically showing off at this point. Look at those caps autodigest 👀🤩! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Shaggy mane mushrooms get their name from their loose scaly cap surface. Pictured are three caps up close with the outside edges turning liquidy black (hence the name inky caps broadly given to these fungi) from self digestion.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It would be hard work to find a chicken of the woods more beautiful than this one right here! 😍🍄‍🟫 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

A orange white polypore (chicken of the woods) with iconic rosette form, resembling a giant fungus flower!

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chlorociboria aeruginascens. #MushroomMonday

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some call it the resinous polypore, others call it the late fall polypore or the benzoin bracket. Whatever you call it, Ischnoderma resinosum is a beautiful fall fungus to find and photograph this time of year here in eastern U.S. #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

A beautiful velvety polypore with rich shades of red purple and brown covering its solitary cap and contrasted against yellow fallen leaves!

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I may not have a million dollars or a fancy car, but I sure am good at finding fresh AF edible mushrooms in the woods like this Coral Tooth Fungus (Hericium coralloides) I found the other day! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Part coral, part icicle, part fungal firework, this edible white tooth fungus looks out of this world as it bursts forth from a barkless dark spongy wood. It tastes incredible!

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Newf puppy riding shotgun! There is no better life!

A gray part floppy eared rabbit part wild eyed hyena donkey hybrid staring in two directions simultaneously while panting wildly.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is it ‘show us your beautiful post harvest plant diseases season’ yet? Because I got this tomato 🍅 right here…🧫🍄‍🟫 #FungiFriends

Post-harvest yellow-orange colored mold growing out in concentric rings on the side of an otherwise flawless tomato.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How do I know fall is just around the corner? Easy, the sugar maples are supporting giant northern tooth fungi (Climacodon septentrionalis)! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Northern tooth fungi have an almost brain-like shape as they grow directly from diseased sugar maple stems! This fungus causes a serious heart rot of maples and beech.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I could literally spend hours staring into the underside of a maze gill mushroom, if only I had the time! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Maze gill polypores get their name from the fact that instead of gills or pores, these mushrooms have one of a kind fungal labyrinths carved naturally into their underside.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I cut a stinkhorn mushroom egg in half and all I see mochi! 😅🤣 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Imagine a bisected mochi ice cream bite. Soft spongy and off white exterior with a wet salmon pink interior.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saw this incredible Yellow Garden Spider earlier today!

Yellow Garden Spider Sitting in its web waiting patiently

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ll know you’ll all be super shocked when I tell you that these bad boys are called dog’s nose fungus! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Imagine a dogs wet nose shiny and black and moist except it’s a real life fungus!

Remember the last photo when I said imagine a real dog’s nose (wet, shiny, and black) but now make it a fungus? Do it again. Another example.

Now imagine if that dog nose (wet, shiny, and black) were in a flaky paper egg with water spit damage which was partially cracked open to reveal the nose. That’s what the early stage of the fungus looks like.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Them: Sorry, I was vacationing at the beach. There’s no mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄there obviously! Me (staring lovingly at my photos of sandy Laccaria and common fiber vase #mushrooms that I saw on the beach repeated): Oh, of course, my bad! #FungiFriends

Common fiber vase is just that - a brown papery vase-shaped ectomycorrhizal fungus found commonly in barrier island plant communities.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Picked this lovely Eastern Cauliflower Mushroom (Sparassis spathulata) earlier today! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Flower like fruiting body of the Eastern Cauliflower Mushroom.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Take a look at these absolutely magnificent Scalycaps (Pholiota spp.) 😍🍄‍🟫! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

A pair of shaggy brown mushrooms emerge like twins from a log surrounded by moss

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, I found the secret forest where McDonald’s grows its hamburger buns! 🍔🍄 #Mushrooms

The caps of some Amanita mushrooms look like seed-covered hamburger tops

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It finally happened 🥳! After years of hoping 🙏 and searching 🧐, I finally spotted a Dog-day cicada in its preferred habitat and it certainly made this old girl dog’s day!

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another neat #bug from Costa Rica, but this time it's very smooth and beautiful, like a little abstract painting. I love the iridescent green punctures! Hnnnggg 😋 #Scutelleridae: #Pachycoris torridus

A smooth shield shaped bug sits on a white background facing right. It has orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background. The body is covered with fine metallic green punctures.

Close up of a smooth shield shaped bug showing orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background, stippled with fine metallic green punctures.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s been raining for days in these parts, which means the #Mushrooms are ecstatic 🌧️🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄! #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bird’s nest fungi are the absolute best! 🪺🍄‍🟫 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Everyone agrees that fungi are fantastic, but have you ever seen the inside of a Pisolithus mushroom? 👀🍄‍🟫🤯 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Elfin saddles sure are one Helvella cool mushroom group! 🥁🍄‍🟫 #mushrooms

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Something was nibbling on this Amanita stem! 🍄 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Cedar apple rust fungus timelapse! Volume up! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Harvested our first eggplant of the season!

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What‘s your favorite color mushroom / fungus? #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If I had a dollar for every Eastern American Jack-O'-Lantern (Omphalotus illudens) patch I spotted this summer, I’d have at least $12.00 USD! #Mushrooms

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Found this lovely Dyer's Polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii) earlier today! #Mushrooms

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

With so many edible fungi popping up here in West Virginia, I made this super easy dish of sautéed chicken of the woods mushrooms over golden chanterelle and garlic risotto! 😋🍄‍🟫🍚 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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