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Matt Bertone
@bertonemyia.bsky.social
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Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him

Raleigh, NC, USA

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bertonemyia.bsky.social
Love it!
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
bertonemyia.bsky.social
BTW, I shared the blue fungus earlier this year, something else I'm grateful to have seen! bsky.app/profile/bert...
bertonemyia.bsky.social Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · Aug 16
🎶I'm blue
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di🎶

[I imagine that's what the fungus sings to itself all day on repeat]

🔵 cobalt crust #fungus [ #Terana coerulea ] on dead firethorn branch (Raleigh, NC)
A woody branch with rounded, spotty patches of a brilliantly cobalt blue crust-like fungus. Close-up of a woody branch with rounded, spotty patches of a brilliantly cobalt blue crust-like fungus. Close-up of a woody branch with rounded, spotty patches of a brilliantly cobalt blue crust-like fungus. Extreme close-up of a woody branch with rounded, spotty patches of a brilliantly cobalt blue crust-like fungus. It is velvety up close.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
bertonemyia.bsky.social
Sweet! They're phorids and look to be the genus Puliciphora: bugguide.net/node/view/10... There are many genera of phorids with wingless females. Great find 😍
Genus Puliciphora
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
bugguide.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
bertonemyia.bsky.social
Obligatory "Thrips is both singular and plural". Sorry.
But an amazing photo of a huge thrips!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM