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Bengi Kendrick

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Fungi. Nature. Parasites. Plants. Skinny dude speaking up for even smaller organisms. North of Kenomee, Nova Scotia, Mi'kma'ki @benkendrick on iNat

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 1h

Reticulation

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Fun Ghoul 👻💜✨ @fungirl.bsky.social · 5h

Peek-a-boo 🍄‍🟫💕✨

Closeup photo of two very snuggly Suillus mushrooms nestled cozily together in lush, green moss in the gray forest

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 2d

My spare camera battery fell into the brook this week while looking at some Marsupella

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 3d

Above 4,000 ft elevation, the late fall polypore (Ischnoderma resinosum) is just somehow way more impressive to me! #mushrooms

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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 3d

Sarcogyne belarusensis - I believe - a rarely recorded lichen easily mistaken for S. pruinosa (or S. regularis). IKI red (hemiamyloid) hymenium and blue subhymenium. #lichen

Lichen with black pruinose disks and entholithic thallus.

Section of an apothecium showing a pale hypothecium and pigmented epihymenium

IKI has to be evaluated in a slightly squished apothecium (to my current understanding it can seem blue in thick sections).

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4d

For being such a large, prominent bryophyte patch, the cells themselves were actually much smaller than usual. I could barely even distinguish the oil bodies.

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4d

Marsupella sphacelata - Speckled Rustwort
New to me
Welcome to the Cobequids. You've most likely been here since before people were, but it's nice to start acknowledging the longterm residents.

A dense patch of a black/green liverwort growing over some sunny brook rocks.

A micrograph image of a bilobed liverwort leaf with an acute sinus and obtuse lobes.

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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 5d

We roughly set up the tree today to get an idea on how it will look. Will get some tiny wire lights instead of these big bulky ones. Attached some red belted conks to give a mushroom/nature vibe lol. It will serve as our Christmas tree too. It's going to be a long winter I believe. My poor hubby 😂

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely a fungi. One that could be called a resupinate hydnoid fungus. Not a formal grouping, it's just like referring to humans and kangaroos as bipedal vertebrates.

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Taiga System @taigasys.bsky.social · 6d

this is a lichen appreciation post

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 5d

Can anyone tell me what the title
Blue fungus type stuff is please?

It was on dead wood in a woodland in Wales

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

Fungi spotting again on today's woodland walk 🍄 #fungifriends

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 6d

That downpour yesterday did just about nothing.

A dried up marshy pond with some boulders poking up through cracked mud

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Quantum Foam 🤘🍄🫥 @peteljuice.bsky.social · 8d

Mushrooms 🧵

Trametes versicolor - "turkey tails" - all over a log.

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Megan L. Ramirez (but spooky 🧡) @mumblemegs.bsky.social · 8d

Fun Lil Guys Alert 🍄✨🚨

A close up of tiny white mushrooms growing on a mossy tree trunk.

A bunch of parasol-shaped mushrooms of a beige-orange colour amidst brown leaves.

A couple of brown mushrooms sprouting up from a mossy log.

A cluster of bumpy brown mushrooms shooting up from a mossy log.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 7d

I know this feeling. I've ordered a total of two things on there and when I say that people act like that's impossible

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 7d

Well this is a relief. Two days ago I took the wood in for winter and wound up stiff from head to toe the following day/yesterday.
Was worried I was lifting too much with my back.
Today everything but my back feels stiff. I don't think I was lifting wrong, just out of shape.

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

Whale Cove Beach on Grand Manan. There's a small saltmarsh over the sand/gravel bar but not much for fresh water/rivers.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

The photo being from a beach on Grand Manan doesn't help me fizzle out my suspicions. That was essentially the core habitat of the sea mink.

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

I would think a camera angle like this one's tricks would make the otters look longer/larger comparative to a log behind it.
Even still it only looks 2ft long as an adult so it still looks undersized to me, by like 25%.
And that belly would definitely be unusually large for a non-pregnant mink.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

Photo credits to iNat user chelariverhawk.
I'm thinking that the spruce driftwood behind it isn't very thick. I think it looks roughly 1ft in diameter. Using that for scale I'm having trouble putting my estimated measurement over 24" long, which would be unusually small for an adult otter.

Some marine mustelids running along a rocky beach. A piece of driftwood is the bestest thing I can use for scale.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

really small river otters***

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

It's probably just a group of really river small otters at the beach, not a family of sea minks, but they just seem like a weird size. Smaller than otters tend to be, but bulkier than minks tend to be.
And their faces aren't as stubby/round as the otter photos I'm using as a refresher.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

Do I know any mustelid experts that I could run an outlandish idea across?
I would like someone to convince me that I'm not looking at a photo of an extinct species.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 8d

If winter just meant rain I think It would be one of my favourite seasons.

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