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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Usually you find entomopathogenic fungi like these on the undersides of leaves, but sometimes they crawl onto the bottom of a mushroom cap to die #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Mycology #Photography #Macrophotography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hodophilus. This are in Clavariaceae (but have gills!) Also they smell like mothballs #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ope. It seems I may have uprooted someone's home.... An Alboleptonia #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The gill shots on this Deconica are just too nice - also, they fluoresce pink/red under 365nm UV light! I wish the lightning was a bit more condusive to getting a good UV shot of the gills here. #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It definitely has been. I'm almost finished - hopefully I can find a satisfying frame.

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My oldest cat passed away last month - he was 17. I've been working on a memorial piece for him - it hurts so much that he is gone but doing this is, in a way, helping me grieve #loss #fiberarts #crossstitch #embroidery

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Camarops petersii is a seriously weird mushroom #mycology #fungifriends

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Pulling some samples for sequencing. Check out this pretty little Cortinarius #fungifriends #mycology

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Y'all, I'm too much for myself sometimes

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

'tis the season for Macrolepiota (or at least it would be if we weren't in drought.) These guys are a choice edible, and pretty easy to ID. Look for a moveable, double-sided ring, 'snakeskin' patterning on the stipe, and white to pale pinkish spores. Macrolepiota Macilenta #Fungifriends #Foraging

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oh, to be a longhorn bee snuggled up with my bee buddies for a nap in a rush. #nature

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

HM. What do we HAVE HERE. M. griseoviride is supposed to have a Melzer's reaction at the tip of the asci and the specimans from OH that we did micro on are NOT reacting to Melzer's regent Gonna need to dig down this rabbit hole a little more #mycology #dnasequencing

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Update. It's been dry so the moss is a bit crispy but my little Thuja is trucking along #bonsai

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

One of two American Chestnuts of appreciable size that I'm aware of in our parks system (there might be more.) And by appreciable size I mean like... 10 inches diameter. It isn't big. But it looks healthy.... for now. I'm going to cry when it starts showing obvious blight.

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Is it a small Inocybe with a brownish cap that looks a right mess? Probably Pseudosperma friable. But in all seriousness, I should have figured this one out without sequencing WHOOPS. #mycology #fungifriends

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

At least this one is focused, but the framing is HILARIOUS

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

hell is trying to take pictures of Odonata that won't land

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

New favorite dragonfly. Celithemis eponina // Halloween Pennant #photography #nature #odonata

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A Cindi Lauper show demands gaudy makeup

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Or blown out photos where the camera decided to focus on the plant instead of the GIANT SPHEX WASP

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The amount of humidity has been crazy here in NEO; at 8am absolutely everything in this field was covered in a sheet of dew, my shoes were completely soaked through and I never stepped in water. #nature #photography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Progess!Process! One of these years this will be done. #crossstitch #fiberarts

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

There is truly something magical about Ospreys #nature #photography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Just a pretty little paper wasp gal, snacking on some extrafloral nectaries on a partridge pea // Chamaecrista fasciculata Polistes genus, I'm between P. parametricus and P. fuscatus. Chime in Hyemnoptera experts if you can tell them apart, I can't. #Photography #Nature #Entomology

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We love a bee mimic. Flies deserve love too! Eristalis transversa // Transverse-Banded Flower Fly on Heliopsis helianthoides // False Sunflower #nature #photography #entomology #pollinator

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Flies can be beautiful too Toxomerus geminatus // Eastern Calligrapher #Nature #photography #Entomology

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This guy was absolutely lost in the sauce, he practically let me pet him. Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) on purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) #Nature #photography #butterfly

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Monotropa uniflora, an achlorophyllus, mycoheteroptrophic plant that parisitizes species in the Russulaceae family. Some people harvest these for tinctures; personally, I'm not a fan. The justification is dubious, and few studies can be found on what chemicals they contain. #nature #photography

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

This is actually a first find for me; neat little fellas, aren't they? Hygrocybe caespitosa, the clustered waxcap #mycology #fungifriends #nature #photography

Clustered small yellow waxcap mushrooms, uprooted to show the gills

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It's a good day when the butterflies let you get close enough for pictures Red-spotted purple, Limenitis arthemis ssp. astyanax #photography #nature #entomology #butterfly

A red-spotted purple buttefly with it's wings open

A red-spotted purple buttefly with it's wings closed

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Amanita elongata (Peck's Yellow Dust Amanita) is always a charming little mushroom to come across in the woods #photography #nature #mycology #fungifriends

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Coming across Nyssa sylvatica in the woods never fails to spark joy #nature #photography

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