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Sure is! It was super difficult to photograph😅

The smallest ones are the most satisfying to find when you realize it’s a little mushroom!

Make sure to check😅 they’re pretty inconspicuous

Sure did, we’ll be growing lots more this year

These aren’t. You could grow that in a tub too but with different substrate and method.

This first fruiting set in after a week and a half but the second came rushing in just under a week with no misting or fanning

It really is! We gotta go next time

Basically describes us while taking macro photos haha

@@ExplorationEverything 😂 😂 😂

You know these are the standard for handling amphibians… look it up. Nitrile gloves. Not latex which could be harmful. Do your research 👍🏼 I use them in university and outside.

​@@ExplorationEverythingthe standard is to "nut up" and grab the frog.

Emotional damage

@@LocoNeedAChickenWing actually not the standard still but go for it 😂 the last time I heard that term used was from students I taught.

@@LocoNeedAChickenWing There is literature examining the effectiveness of disposable gloves acting as a fungicide on the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (The fungus attacks the parts of a frog's skin that have keratin in them. Since frogs use their skin in respiration, this makes it difficult for the frog to breathe). ***For example one study found that nitrile gloves but not latex, polyethylene or vinyl gloves were effective in killing the chytrid fungus.***

Very much so! But these American bullfrogs get much larger and are ecologically destructive in California taking up habitat and spreading diseases.

​@@ExplorationEverything "diseases"? People eat them. I've never heard of diseases

@@LocoNeedAChickenWing chytrid. This information wouldn’t just fall on your lap, you’d have to do some reading.

They definitely are! They have a lil smile

Exactly! So he’ll usually leave a snack to distract her and run off…or be eaten😬

WE GETTING SHROOMITE WITH THIS ONE💯💯💯

I love turning the surface of my world into a giant glowing mushroom biome 😂😂😂

Not on this substrate. This is for Oak loving saprophytic fungi not dung lovers

Yeah I agree 👍🏼, this didn’t get any attention. It was a “set and forget”, no misting, no fanning. I may have to increase the ventilation a tiny bit for more oxygen to enter and co2 to vent.

I didn’t even mist them or fan them out this time 😅 just left them in the box and took em out once I saw them fruit enough.

They look pretty cool and it’s interesting that this is a sexually dimorphic species of true spiders🕷️

Jumping spiders are actually pretty cool looking and much smarter most of the arachnids! But tarantulas creep me out…as of now.

It’s a recycled bottle lol I think she prefers water from the lake she’s next to, so I used that👍🏼

Just gotta bring the uv light around at night. They glow pretty obviously when they’re around.

I always thought they were just scorpions with a “regular” sting 😬

She did hiss at us a bit before realizing our intentions were to give her water or check to make sure she’s okay. She was sweet soon after and showed us her eggs

@@ExplorationEverything people think they're so mean, but once they don't feel like you're a threat and you're gonna help they're sweet birds. You go back there and I bet she remembers you.

The bag was very mature mixed substrate(I put grain spawn in oak substrate), I had it for 6 months in the fridge, once I took it out I let it colonize the remaining sections of the fruiting block but then it began to have pins in random locations. I want to fruit from the top in a controlled manner to keep the block from drying for multiple flushes. The “Monotub” is to keep the humidity in and minimal air flow for oxygen. This was a set it and forget it type grow. It actually yielded two flushes!

The circle of life 😮‍💨

Maybe in the future if we make a trip out of seeing the lights

They most definitely were!

Pat pat*

Sure was, you should take pepper there next time

Heart rock + arch trail at Joshua tree National Park

Not unless you want a tummy ache. But the saffron milk cap is edible if you can find them

Yellow crowned night herons are pretty cool creatures! Very vibrant in spring

Yes, just do research on venomous species nearby before handling. They have rear fangs and usually take longer to latch on to envenomate their prey or your finger

Mhm, fry them in a pan with butter 🧈

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Very!

A bit haha but luckily they don’t taste like it when cooked right! Reishi looks like worms too if you look those up

You bet!

Vicious but life is also pretty nice 👍🏼

Oh my, oh no, this can’t be, whyyyyy

It really was a cool and unexpected find even tho I was looking for snakes. I didn’t know we had snakes with semi aquatic behavior 🫨

Yup that’s right! Luckily it didn’t bite

Often compared to a bee sting although those actually have killed people

Oh yeah! Forgot to mention that and that they musk😬

They already hatched, mallards didn’t need any help! I’ll be posting clips of wood ducklings, mallard ducklings, goslings, and another couple species soon to show their success.