Mushrooms
aardvarchaeology | August 30, 2014Mushroom picking again this morning, this time in the area between Lakelets Skinnmossen and Knipträsket. Found more velvet and birch boletes than we cared to pick.
King bolete, Stensopp/Karl Johan, Boletus edulis
Orange birch bolete, Tegelsopp, Leccinum versepelle
Velvet bolete, Sandsopp, Suillus variegatus
Chanterelle, Kantarell, Cantharellus cibarius
Gypsy mushroom, Rynkad tofsskivling, Rozites caperata
False saffron milkcap, Blodriska, Lactarius deterrimus
Oh how annoying that the image gallery function is so bug-ridden.
aardvarchaeology | August 22, 2014Has it really been almost four years since I blogged about mushrooms? This afternoon me and my wife repeated our September 8, 2010 expedition to the hills between Lakes Lundsjön and Trehörningen and picked almost a kilo of mushrooms in a bit more than an hour. We got:
King bolete, Stensopp/Karl Johan, Boletus edulis
Bay bolete, Brunsopp, Boletus badius
Orange birch bolete, Tegelsopp, Leccinum versepelle
Birch bolete, Björksopp, Leccinum scabrum
Entire russula, Mandelkremla, Russula integra
Two kinds of red or brown brittlegill, mild-tasting and thus non-poisonous. Scandyland has more than…
cevans | July 17, 2011
Mushrooms and their mycelium are quiet allies that are essential for our healthy existence. They are enigmatic, have a sense of humor, and socially as well as spiritually, bond together all that admire them. They have much to teach us.
-Paul Stamets
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self a part of nature's larger whole.
-Terrence McKenna
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at my kitchen table, having coffee, when I suddenly noticed a new development in my bonsai…
mpendergrast | June 21, 2010Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion.
The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and college friend, Andy Vernon, who wrote that I should consider writing the history of the EIS. I emailed back to say that I was honored, but what was the EIS? I had never heard of it. I knew Andy worked on tuberculosis at the CDC, but I didn't know that he had been a state-based EIS officer from 1978…
awild | August 6, 2008
Euprenolepis procera
(photo by Witte and Maschwitz)
This is cool. A new paper by Volker Witte and Ulrich Maschwitz details a previously unknown behavior for ants: nomadic fungivory. Here's the cite and the abstract:
Witte, V. and U. Maschwitz. 2008. Mushroom harvesting ants in the topical rain forest. Naturwissenschaften, online early.
Abstract: Ants belong to the most important groups of arthropods, inhabiting and commonly dominating most terrestrial habitats, especially tropical rainforests. Their highly collective behavior enables exploitation of various resources and is viewed as a key…