Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026An abundance of #TapiocaSlimeMold! #tapioca #slimemold #slimemolds #fungifans #fungifriends #macrophotography #naturephotography 010
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This White-rot Fungus surrounding the trail marker smelled like an Orange Creamsicle! #fungifriday #FridayFungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms #naturephotography #hiking #fungus #forestnature 051
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026These Beech Blight Aphids (aka "boogie-woogie aphids") rhythmically wave their pom-pom-like waxy exudates when threatened--here from our camera shutters and closer examination 😮 #bugs #aphid #beechtree #insect #macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #invertebrate #bugsky #insectsky #entomology 0205
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Dead Man's Fingers #FungiSunday #SundayFungi #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms #mushroomphotography #fungiphotography #naturephotography #forestfloor #forestfinds 1261
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Ghost Pipes are flowers that are often mistaken for a fungus! #ghostpipes #monotropauniflora #naturephotography #forestfloor #ghostflower #mycoheterotrophy #mycoheterotroph #parasiticplants #ghostplant #fungifriends 0345
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Viscid Violet Cort #fungi #fungus #fungifans #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms #naturephotography #forestfloor 021
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Always worth looking on the underside of a log with Blue Stain fungus: Green Wood Cups and an interesting #fungus (possibly Trechispora sp. or Anomoloma sp.) #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms #macrofungi #macrophotography #naturephotography #forestfloor #greenwoodcups 040
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026White-pored Chicken of the Woods #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushrooms #forestfloor #mycology #naturephotography 011
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Pinewood Gingertail covering a stump like a miniature city #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushrooms #FungiMonday #forestfloor #mycology #naturephotography 11428
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Old-Man-of-the-Woods #fungus #FungiFriday #fridayfungi #fungifans #fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #naturephotography 081
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jackson's Slender Caesar fungi looking like plum tomatoes :) #fungi #mycology #mushrooms #orange #red #hiking #summer #amanita #amanitajacksonii #shrooms #photography #FungiFriday #fungifriends #fungifans 0220
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A colorful find: Red Raspberry Slime Mold #slimemold #slimemould #tubifera #redraspberryslimemold #raspberryslimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends 020
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Eastern American Jack-O'-Lantern #mushrooms giving off a warm orange glow #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushroom #mycology #naturephotography #fungus #shroomscrolling #mushroomphotography #FungiFriday #shrooms 0211
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026#Teasel is a sweet flower that is now blooming in whites and lavenders. Though not a native, it is very attractive to lots of different #pollinators. #FrancisDarwin and his father studied teasel as a "proto-carnivorous plant #naturephotography #nature #flowers #honeybees #wetlands 030
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The face-to-face positioning during most of this encounter between two #snappingturtles means it was almost certainly a fight for territory between two males #turtles #turtle #herpetology #naturephotography #reptiles #pondlife #snappingturtle #wetlandecology #wetlandlife #nature 010
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A male #EasternPondhawk #dragonfly munches on a Beautiful Deer Fly. Female deer flies are vectors for diseases like anaplasmosis and act like flying hypodermic needles, making a cross cut on the skins of mammals to drink blood #Odonata #macrophotography #dragonflies #DragonflyWatching #insects #bugs 050
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle #Insects #bugs #macro #naturephotography #beetles #macrophotography #entomology #swampmilkweed #pollinators #coleoptera #aposematism 0100
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Twelve-Spotted Skimmer #dragonfly #dragonflies #skimmers #twelvespottedskimmer #pondlife #wetlands #wetlandlife #nature #macro #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #naturestudy #macrophoto 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Northern Catalpa Trees are known for their long slender seed pods, but the blossoms are gorgeous and smell wonderful! #catalpatree #catalpatreeblossoms #treeblossoms #flowers #trees 040
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Hemlock Varnish Shelf fungus on a hemlock snag #fungi #fungifans #mushrooms #hemlockvarnishshelf #hemlockreishi #fungifriends 0210
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The Appalachian brown butterfly #butterflylovers #butterfly #brushfootedbutterfly 030
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026We get how they did the first thing with the eggs, but how did they manage the second thing? #Americantoad #toadmatingseason #toads #toadlove #toadfans #toadeggs #amplexus #wetlandlife #pondlife 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A new invasive species is changing our Northeastern woods, and the first sign is leaf striping caused by a microscopic nematode. There's no large-scale solution but an expensive option for treating individual trees #BeechLeafDisease #BLD #invasivespecies #functionalextinction #beechtree 020
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This Eastern Kingbird gave us a quizzical look #kingbird #Easternkingbird #wetlandbirds #birdwatching 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Hexagonal-pored polypore (Neofavolus alveolaris) is commonly found on sticks and is always a fun find #fungifans #fungi #mushrooms #polypore #fungifriends #naturefinds 050
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Red Deadnettle aka Purple Archangel is a mint with a long history of use as a food and part of an Anglo-Saxon herb charm "against a sudden/violent stabbing pain"--applied as an ointment with a sharp blade, naturally. Don't try that at home, please! #deadnettle #mintfamily #mint #edibleplants 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Shaggy Mane—also called Shaggy Ink Cap and Lawyer’s Wig #fungi #SundayFungi #fungifans #mushrooms #fungus #ShaggyMane 040
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026After a couple of days in the mid-80s (F) here in our corner of NYS, we had a freeze where the low temperature overnight hit 20 degrees. The earliest and tallest of the Cinnamon fern fiddleheads didn't do well #ferns #fernfans #fernfriends #frondfriends #cinnamonferns #fiddleheads #springplants 010
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026A striking pile-up of Hoof Fungus looks down on a bank of Red Trillium #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #mushrooms #springflowers #springephemerals #redtrillium #trillium 030
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Likely Mauglancomyces korfii #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #springnature #mushrooms 0170
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The Eastern Comma butterfly came out early and blends in perfectly with the dried leaf litter when its wings are closed #butterflies #EasternComma #EasternCommabutterfly #camouflage #butterflycamouflage 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The pond at Lime Hollow Nature Center, Cortland, NY, was roiling with paired American toads—mating season is off to a very loud and obvious start! #toads #americantoads #amphibians #amplexus #pondlife 010
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026A Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, no doubt waiting on this fallen log for a small arthropod meal #beetles #insectlife #foresthiking #springinsects 050
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Bay polypore, big and new and eye-catching from across the woods #FungiSunday #SundayFungi #fungifans #fungifriends 0321
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Red elderberry flowers #aprilflowers #redelderberry #elderberry #naturephotography 020
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Warlock’s Butter (Exidia nigricans) #FungiFriday #fungifans #fungi #fungifriends #jellyfungus 150
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026We saw our first Scarlet elfcups of the year today! #fungiSunday #Sundayfungi #fungifans #ScarletElfcups #fungifriends 0190
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Even with their anti-freeze chemistry, the Christmas ferns are saying, “Enough!” #snowbegone #ferns #fernfans #Christmasfern #endlesswinter 020
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Waterman's Pettus Hill Preserve in West Windsor, NY, boasts a large number of an ancient lichen called Smooth Rock Tripe (𝘜𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) on its north-facing boulders. Each thallus is attached by its "belly button," hence the common name "navel lichen" #lichen #fungi #rocktripe #navellichen 080
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Chicken of the woods: Winter Edition😀 #fungi #fungifans #fungifriends #chickenofthewoods 0250
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Rock polypody (𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮) is a truly evergreen fern, which means it's still looking good after our harsh Northeast winter as the snow continues to melt off #wintergreenferns #ferns #polypody #fernfans #glen #waterfall 040
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026It hit 70 degrees today for our first real "Fake Spring" here in the Southern Tier of New York, but there's still ice on the pond that this bonded pair of Canada geese have just returned to #thegeeseareback #Canadageese #pondlife #wetlands #wetlandecology #migration 000
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Violet-toothed Polypore loves to take over stumps and snags. Here’s what it looks like when it’s new from above and below #FungiMonday #fungifriends #fungifans #fungi 0131
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This Smokey-eyed Boulder Lichen caught our eye! #lichen #crustoselichen #fungi #fungifriends 0252
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Fresh Turkey-tail is making our winter woods colorful right now #Sundayfungi #fungifans #fabulousfungi #turkeytailmushrooms #winternature 0120
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026It’s good to recognize these hairy roots for what they are: poison ivy! They really stand out in winter and can cause an allergic reaction even without the “leaves of three” #poisonivy #urushiol #winternature 110
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The snow has melted enough to reveal the hardy Bronze fern (aka Cutleaf grapefern) that’s been there since all season #ferns #fernfans #grapeferns #winterplants #bronzefern #cutleafgrapefern 030
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Just like us in the 6-degree weather of Upstate New York, these Sensitive fern sporophylls are waiting for spring! They will release their spores in March and April #ferns #fernfans #sensitiveferns #beadfern #spores #dimorphicferns #winternature 042
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Ice does interesting things as temperatures change #pondice #icepatterns #temperaturechanges #iceart 011
Waterman Conservation Education Center @watermancenter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025If at first you don't succeed, chew chew chew again! #beaver #beavers #busybeaver #winterfood #wetlandlife #pondlife #wetlandwildlife 020