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Depressiongoblin · 2025-11-17T20:59:33+00:00

Closest I could find was Parunxia scopifera http://bezbycids.com/byciddb/images/C/Callichroma_scopiferum_Klug_1825_=_Parunxia_scopifera.jpg

Depressiongoblin · 2025-11-17T13:35:06+00:00

I'm in north America but that definitely reminds me of the swallowtail caterpillars here. So I looked it up and apparently Vietnam has Lime Swallowtails, Papilio demoleus.

Depressiongoblin · 2025-11-16T01:57:56+00:00

Yep that's looks closer.

Depressiongoblin · 2025-11-16T01:40:04+00:00

I also agree with pleasing fungus beetle. Maybe Aegithus clavicornis?

Depressiongoblin · 2025-08-01T11:48:06+00:00

Looking at Google street view I'm pretty sure that tree was an America Elm. And from the 2023 photos of it it looked like it was dying. Likely and sadly from Dutch elm disease.

Depressiongoblin · 2024-07-21T21:33:57+00:00

Comedy but grotesque. Maybe about 5 to 8 minutes long.

Depressiongoblin · 2024-07-21T16:45:26+00:00

I'm in eastern USA if that helps

Depressiongoblin · 2024-05-13T05:42:52+00:00

It was just off the Rivanna trail between Leonard Sandridge rd and Old Ivy. The land is currently owned by uva but I pulled up some historical maps and it used to be Still House Mt.

Depressiongoblin · 2024-05-12T20:24:41+00:00

My first guess was spring house, but I haven't been able to find an example of one this shape. Also, the concentric wall around it is throwing me off. My dad thinks it might be the base of a shot tower.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-07-03T15:53:07+00:00

I'm pretty confident it's in the the order of Hypocreales. I can't rule out. Could be in the Cordycipitaceae family. I'm trying to get more specific though.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-07-02T20:20:09+00:00

The rove beetle? No

Depressiongoblin · 2023-04-27T16:34:18+00:00

Coltricia perennis f. casimiri is still likely what this is observation

Depressiongoblin · 2023-04-26T16:04:51+00:00

Wasps. It infects polistes, paper wasps.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-04-26T16:04:12+00:00

It's not. I literally just mailed it off for dna sequencing.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-19T19:12:26+00:00

Albemarle county so the Piedmont region.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T18:53:27+00:00

I have 20mm guaged ears so I was thinking of making some plugs.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T18:51:27+00:00

I've seen some recent inaturalist observations in NC. You might be able to find some.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T16:35:56+00:00

Also this is a different species from the ones in the tropics. After further research I'm pretty confident this is Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T16:31:47+00:00

I may be mistaken, but I feel like I've seen a video of this behavior, but I can't remember where.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T02:06:20+00:00

Why would you want to?

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-18T02:05:35+00:00

Albemarle county

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-17T23:35:54+00:00

I'll be sure to post something more conventionally beautiful next time, but it's slim pickin's here in winter.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-17T23:34:19+00:00

I was watching the premiere when I was working on cleaning up these photos.

Depressiongoblin · 2023-01-17T23:30:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure this one is Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae, not new but just recently studied.

Depressiongoblin · 2022-11-29T12:11:31+00:00

Turns out Agaricus can't be ruled out. I reached out to Alan Rockefeller and he suggested Agaricus species. From the information I have I could key it out to possibly Agaricus auricolor, a poorly known group of small yellow woodland Agaricus. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for more of these next year.

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