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🍄Mushroom Guy🍄

@mycotae.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 (NCR) | EN-FR | Intersex - 🏳️‍⚧️ | He/They | 40s | Married @greybriar.art | A bit obsessed with fungi and the ocean Friendly mushroom living in the wild North. Art focus is mainly horror and unsettling wildlife with a touch of whimsy. NO AI. 🔞

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🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 24m

I uh.... Hm.

A very, very large sweet potato.....

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 21h

J found this lovely lady in an old slush puppie cup someone threw away in the woods. We saved the spider and threw the cup in the recycling. Don't litter please.

My hand next to a Dolomedes spider on grass.

Dolomedes spider on dry leaves.

Dolomedes spider on dry leaves.

Dolomedes spider in a slush puppie cup.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love these! Great photo. Saw one last weekend!

Earthstar fungi on ground.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I JUST found out about Taczanowskia waska - the Cordyceps spider! Discovered this year in Ecuador! How awesome is that?! Here's the iNaturalist link: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1671384...

A tan and brown spider on a leaf, next to what I think is a rusty brown eggsac. The spider has cream-yellowish growths on its abdomen that mimics Gibellula sp fungi.

Front view of small tan and brown spider on a leaf. It has cream yellowish growths on its abdomen that mimic Gibellula sp fungi.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wolfsickness

A monstrous transformation of a man to wolf, in black and white.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👀

A gnarly looking hand and lower jaw with lolling tongue. It's werewolf time.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bone ID help- i think it's a vertebra but of what? Found on a saltwater beach on the east coast of Quebec. Also bonus cow tooth (pretty sure anyway) (found on a different sea beach)

Vertebra

Side view of vertebra.

Large bovine tooth.

Another view of tooth.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also MASSIVE lobster molts i found

Two massive lobster claw molts.

A full massive lobster claw molt

Huge lobster tail molt

Another pic of the tail molt.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some animal photos from the trip :)

Snow geese in flight.

Basking shark fin

Common eider

Humpback whale tail.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone good in identifying fossils? I'm guessing Ordovician/Devonian but would love some idea of what they are!

Rock with various fossils.

Closeup of fossils

Another closeup

And more.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rock weed in water

White underwing moth on sand

Sun over the ocean

Barnacme on rock.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great blue heron at low tide at sunset.

Moon rising over low tide beach

A large, old bone stuck deep into a beach, under large rocks.

Cliffs at low tide at sunset.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More photos from our trip!

A cool rock

No idea what plant root this is.

Atlantic ocean waves

A grey seal with a large shark bite.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beautiful sunset colours.

Cap des rosiers lighthouse against the setting sun. It is the tallest lighthouse in Canada- 112m tall.

Full moon rising over a field and ocean.

Semipalmated plover on rocks.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harlequin ducks on water.

A tiny northern rock crab molt.

Holdfast of kelp on mussel.

Pink-banded sallow

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cool rocks.

White coloured Chondrus crispus - Irish moss

A blue and orange lobster claw molt.

Another blue, orange and black lobster claw molt.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thread of assorted pictures from our trip!

Ocean beach on a cloudy day.

OP's hand next to a large lobster tail molt.

Ocean beach on a slightly cloudy day

Flat rock woth glacial striation.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

View from this year

A good looking boulder on a rocky beach. The ocean and a cloudy sky is behind it.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Minke whale :)

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guess who

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of two Humpback whales diving! So happy to have been able to see them.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You drew one of my cats perfectly 😂

A chunky black cat with two foam balls in his mouth.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

*massive hug* Have some photos to try and help ❤️

Late afternoon sun over a wetland.

Orange and red leaf.

Water smartweed with lily pads.

A black cat with his tongue out.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was a great walk ❤️

View of wetland under cloudy evening sky.

Green heron on a dead tree.

Thimbleberries

Yellow Amanita sp. Mushroom

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You go lil guy

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tiny lil guy!

A hatchling Common snapping turtle on a gravel path, with two of OP's fingers for size.

Tiny hatchling common snapping turtle in grass

Top view of hatchling common snapping turtle

Side view of tiny hatchling common snapping turtle

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The rotten ones always Hate seeing you grow #DarkArt

A northern gannet holding a rpugh garnet in its beak over the eye socket of an old human skull. Tears flow from the gannet's eyes. A drop drips from the gemstone.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Soon.

Atlantic Ocean waves on a sandy beach.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some mushrooms and a garter snake! #fungus #fungi #mushroom #snake

Yellow capped Amanita (is it still A. chrysoblema?)

Yellow capped Russula sp

Hygrocybe sp

Common garter snake in ferns

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some photos from today's walk :) #bugs #spider #insects #flower

European hornet in flight.

Goldenrod crab spider on grass.

White water-lily

A metallic green bee on wood.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Found this old metal ball while digging in the garden. Any idea what it could be? It's heavy for its size.

Old, rusty, pitted metal ball in OP's hand.

Another photo of old metal ball.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

REPOSTING forgot alt text One word : Autumn!

Ref sheet of a reddish and cream fat horse.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here!!! I was SO happy! The first and only time I saw one was on a door handle at Kent State U, but it was before smart phone D:

Northern Walkingstick insect on glass.

Another shot of the walkingstick.

White Micrathena spider

Another shot of the white Micrathena spider.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Large thistle weevil!

Side view of large thistle weevil.

Front view of large thistle weevil

Large thistle weevil.

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🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And even More! Species in alt text. #insects #bugs #invertebrates #invertefest

Milkweed tussock moth caterpillar with monarch caterpillar in background. They are on two separate plants.

Eastern flower fly on plants.

Clouded plant bug on milkweed.

Broad-handed leafcutter bee on pyeweed.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And More! Species in alt text. #insects #bugs #invertebrates #invertfest

Least skipper on white clover.

TINY monarch caterpillar on milkweed.

Bronze copper butterfly on grasses.

Large thistle weevil on milkweed.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

More! Species in alt text. #insects #bugs #invertebrates #invertfest

Swamp milkweed leaf beetle on, you guessed it, milkweed.

Great golden digger wasp on sand.

Grapeleaf skeletonizer moth caterpillar on grape vine.

Black-sided meadow katydid on grasses.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So many bugs! Species in the alt text. #insects #invertebrates #invertfest

Monarch caterpillar on milkweed.

Milkweed tussock moth caterpillar on milkweed.

Red legged grasshopper on milkweed pod.

Brown stinkbug on milkweed leaf.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some photos of the eclipse last night! Getting up at midnight was hard. I am too old for this 😂

A slight sliver of a moon on a black sky.

Red coloured moon during the eclipse

Sliver of moon during the eclipse

Red moon during eclipse.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aahh congrats! Have a mushroom beast

Ref sheet for Mycota, a mushroom creature.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A SECOND big caterpillar! #invertebrates #caterpillar #pandorusmoth #insects #Eumorphapandorus

A large Pandorus moth caterpillar on Virginia creeper.

Side view of large green caterpillar on Virginia creeper.

View of the button on rearend of large green caterpillar. There used to be a whip like horn there in previous instars.

View of the head of large green caterpillar, retracted into its body in defense.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Finished commission for @anuolfraccoon.bsky.social :)

A ruby throated hummingbird to the right of 6 Cardinal flowers.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Went to cut a virginia creeper vine and saw this guy! Obviously the vine will stay. #bugs #invertebrates #caterpillar #pandorussphinx #Eumorphapandorus

Eumorpha pandorus sphinx moth caterpillar on virginia creeper vine. Its head is retracted in its body.

Eumorpha pandorus sphinx moth caterpillar on virginia creeper vine. Its head is retracted in its body.

Eumorpha pandorus sphinx moth caterpillar on virginia creeper vine. Its head is retracted in its body. Hand for size.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My intelligent boy

A black cat in a tan bucket on a tan and green cat tree. His tongue is out.

A black cat in a tan bucket on a tan and green cat tree. His tongue is out.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

GASP they are GROWING!

Tomatillos growing

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Grousewinged backswimmer #bugs #insects

A pale colour backswimmer on a net.

A pale coloured backswimmer on a net

A pale colour backswimmer on a net.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Freaking love hoverflies! Saw a cute tufted globetail last week!

Small hoverfly on joe pyeweed

Another shot of a tufted globetail on joe pye weed

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Artist! Drop something creepy! #DarkArt

A misshapen deer with spindly legs, bulging eyes and large teeth standing in a yard. It is illuminated by a window's light.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

More!

Monarch catterpillar on milkweed.

Jagged ambush bugs mating.

Monarch butterfly on milkweed.

Tufted globetail on pyeweed.

🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bugs we saw on our walk!

Great black digger wasp in flight.

Eastern tailed-blue butterfly on grasses.

Swamp Milkweed leaf beetle on swamp milkweed.

American carrion beetle on vegetation.