I Painted A Plant Pot Today! It Was Awesome!

I painted a plant pot today! It was awesome!

The beetles were based on pine chafers a.k.a. Polyohylla fullo, but because of the colours and the vertical stripes on the wings they don't really look like them.

Below a photograph of a pine chafer I made some time ago:)

Candy apple bolete - Exsudoporus frostii

I made this post in response to this poll.

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The cap is 3.5 ¹ to 15 ² centimetres across and initially convex shaped, later becoming broadly convex. The bright red, bald cap is sticky when fresh and its margin is often pale yellow and overhanging slightly.¹

The pore surface is dark red, becoming dirty brownish red and sometimes becoming faintly yellowish near stem and cap margin. The underside of the cap has 2 to 3 circular pores per millimetre at maturity, these tubes are up to 1 centimetre deep.¹ In young specimens yellow droplets can be seen leaking from the pores.³

The stipe is 4 ¹ to 12 ² centimetres long and 1 to 1.5 centimetres thick. It is coarsely reticulate overall with a red reticulum, yellow underneath the red. The basal mycelium is whitish.¹

The flesh is whitish to pale yellow overall and red in the stipe base, turning pale blue when sliced.¹

Microscopic features and spore print

The spores (seen below) are 13–22 x 4–5 µm, fusoid and smooth. The hymenial cystidia are about 40 x 10 µm, fusiform or lageniform, smooth, thin-walled and hyaline in KOH.¹

The spore print is olive brown.¹

Ecology

This species is mycorrhizal with oaks and other hardwoods, growing alone, scattered, or gregariously. It can be found in summer and fall.¹

Distribution

It is widely distributed in Eastern North America, Southwest America, Mexico, and Central America.¹

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en.wikipedia.org

Exsudoporus frostii - Wikipedia

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Mushroom Appreciation

Frost's Bolete: Identifying, Foraging, and Edibility

With its mesmerizing blood-red cap, red pores, and webbed stalk, Frost's bolete is a true spectacle in the mushroom world. Frost's bolete (E

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Fossil Shark Teeth ID Project - Part 1

I am currently working on a shark teeth ID project. It is a personal project I am working on because I got gifted a multitude of fossil shark teeth of various species.

I am fairly sure that the teeth (seen in the two pictures below) belong to the family Lamnidae and are from the species Cosmopolitodus hastalis.

If these teeth are in fact the teeth of Cosmopolitodus hastalis they ought to date back to the Miocene and Pliocene (which are the two epochs of the Neogene). Although the species was still alive during the Pleistocene, fossils found of Cosmopolitodus hastalis in Cadzand (in the Netherlands) date back to the Miocene and Pliocene.

One of the shark teeth (the left picture below) gifted to me is so severely eroded that I cannot visually identify it, however it is still a gorgeous fossil.

Between the various shark teeth I also found what I suspect to be a part of a fossilised chela (claw/pincer of a crab) (seen in the right picture below). Considering the location of the find I think it might be from Carcinus maenas and could date back to the Pliocene.

I'm obsessing over this song! I only started listening to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard yesterday, but it's awesome!

This music is amazing! I'll probably listen to this the whole autumn! To this and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

This song is so good! I'm dying! I love the halloween vibes! I'm legit counting the days 'till halloween.

PESTO THE PENGUIN HAS A WIKIPEDIA PAGE!!!!

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS UNTILL NOW!?!?!

PESTO IS SUCH A CUTIEEE!!! AAAAAAAAA