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Victoria Day Long Weekend Lichens

Found in Northern British Columbia, all within about 10 m of our canoe campsite. Old harvested Pinus contorta stand next to a lake (100+ yrs). Such a huge diversity of Cladonia’s in this spot, and a pleasure to see some small pelts and Cetraria’s. The Flavocetraria cucullata was a nice surprise!

u/Sk00kySpark1503 — 3 days ago
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Decided to look at a few pieces of lichen under my cheap microscope at 40x and found a bonus bug

The first piece is definitely my favorite. I only got one good picture of the bug but from my very quick Google search I think it's an oribatid mite? I tried to get more pictures of it but I was using my phone to get the pictures so I couldn't keep everything lined up but I still think it turned out cool.

u/Affablesea9917 — 6 days ago
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Surviving pictures of another blue lichen encounter

Terana cerulea , as has been identified by this r/ , with some saying that it's also some kind of fungus ?

so here's another set of pictures , this particular SD card had it's data corrupted somehow , and many pictures from that trip did not make it or made it like the 2nd and 3rd picture , we had some weird encounters in the cloud forest those days , our equipment stopped working correctly, batteries for drained , etc, those things sometimes happen up there , we sleep at night better thinking its the humidity and not the Green

We've found some incredible incredible bioluminescent, something , a fungus or a lichen , I have no idea, the pictures are tough, but I'll post them anyhow , maybe someone can tell me what it is

Meanwhile check this out, a bit different, it was super overcast if I remember correctly , the blue was so intense ,it was impossible not to stop and wonder!

Sometimes , when I'm out there , I take way longer to get to my camping destination from stopping every 4 minutes to take pictures of the lichen, the moss and the mushroom

u/IGenuinaConsciencia — 8 days ago
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Green, Golf-tee Shape Lichen: Anyone Know the ID?

Location: Western WA, USA

Habitat: New growth conifer forest w/ deciduous scattered throughout

Substrate: growing with moss, out of the side of the soil/clay walking trail.

Altitude: 400ft, ~122m

u/The-Rooftop-Korean — 6 days ago
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A worker refinishing our deck power washed the rocks surrounding the decks base.

I'm coming into this post having had everyone important to the situation dismiss my dismay. Late last fall we had our deck refinished, step one of that was power washing the deck. Great! Expect he power washed most of the larger rocks in the garden, which had very advanced lichen colonies. My son has autism and loves playing with the hose, and I would ask him to water the rocks almost everyday.

Now the rocks have bare inert stone. I want to yell at this person for being so casual with something that can take decades to mature to that level. I told my wife that if he has cut down our very mature spruce trees it would be a lawsuit tier fuck up, she said she didn't care and to get the fuck over it...

Can anyone relate or bring me down to reality in this situation? Why do I feel like an ecological crime was committed on my property?

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u/sockmop — 7 days ago
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Fairy Vomit and British Soldiers Lichen

I didn’t know this sub existed! I have tons of lichen photos. These were taken with my iPhone at Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.

u/Training-Living-6816 — 7 days ago