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October 18, 2023
11:36 AM MDT
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June 9, 2024
11:23 AM CDT
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May 1, 2024
06:38 PM CDT
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May 5, 2024
07:10 PM CDT
Description
See the bee in the center of the picture? There is a hole in the ground above this bee. These bees fly around and disappear into the holes. The bee is heading under the leaves, and I think a hole is under there. I think these bees may be the same ones that visit the Texas dandelion.
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May 5, 2024
04:28 PM CDT
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May 2, 2024
11:31 PM CDT
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April 24, 2024
01:19 PM CDT
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March 26, 2024
01:10 PM CDT
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March 7, 2024
10:49 PM CST
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March 8, 2024
03:43 AM UTC
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March 2, 2024
07:11 PM CST
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December 17, 2023
08:00 PM CST
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December 17, 2023
09:16 PM CST
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August 6, 2023
12:10 AM CDT
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August 2, 2023
10:39 PM UTC
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September 24, 2022
03:03 PM UTC
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June 17, 2022
08:20 PM CDT
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June 17, 2022
08:00 PM CDT
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November 6, 2021
10:40 PM UTC
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November 2, 2021
01:51 PM CDT
Description
I've wanted to find this one for a while. I doubt much can be gleaned from my amateur microscopy, but I believe I found a condiophore and some hyphal bodies. The fungus has spread throughout the entire body, even emerging from the face between the antennae. It also seems that the fungus has "sewn" the body to the leaf with strands of hyphae, as shown in picture 9.
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November 3, 2021
03:53 AM CDT
Description
Stalks average ~90 μm diameter, heads ~215 μm.
Distinguishing features from this key:
- Brown hymenium
- Pruina not always conspicuous, but white when present
- Thallus growing from under the surface of wood
- Excipulum underdeveloped, maybe visible occasionally in the last picture
- Spores 3.5-4.5 µm (ascospores in 11th picture I think, range is close given the difficulty measuring)
Looks like I caught a diverse array of conidia as well.
Since I couldn't identify the phycobiont, I could have also gone down the wrong genus.
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November 4, 2021
09:27 AM CDT
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November 4, 2021
09:25 AM CDT
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November 4, 2021
09:18 AM CDT
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August 10, 2021
04:49 AM CDT
Description
Makes the most sense for the host plant (Cephalanthus occidentalis) but I suppose it could be something else.
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June 11, 2021
11:34 AM CDT
Description
I collected coriander (cilantro) seeds from my garden and sealed them in a baggie, then months later when I was going to plant them I found these tiny insects in the bag and noticed the holes in the seeds. They were identified in the Facebook group Antman's Hill as coriander seed wasps (Systole coriandri).
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May 6, 2021
09:48 AM CDT
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January 29, 2021
09:50 PM CST
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December 27, 2020
04:43 PM CST
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October 4, 2016
01:32 PM CDT
Description
Was living in an abandoned backpack under a bush in Sam Houston Park.
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April 26, 2020
02:53 PM CDT
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November 7, 2020
02:43 PM CST
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September 19, 2020
06:09 PM CDT
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August 21, 2020
02:18 PM CDT
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May 2, 2020
04:36 PM CDT
What
Tievine
(Ipomoea cordatotriloba)
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April 26, 2020
11:33 AM CDT
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April 26, 2020
02:56 PM CDT
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April 14, 2020
08:15 PM CDT
Description
He was hanging out with a cucumber beetle
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April 7, 2020
08:32 PM CDT
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December 14, 2018
04:25 PM CST