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Nimblenewt
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🇨🇦Nature nerd by the Salish Sea. Lichen enthusiast; nudibranchs, liverworts, tiny mushrooms, seaweed, plankton, authors and cats. Also amphibians! And invertebrates...
(Note: any newt-handling photos are only to remove them from roads or other dangers.)
Wow so many different fish! Very pretty🐠💚
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Whoa!!! Very nifty little clouds🐸
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
*the bottom right photo with the pair of orange ones in moss, with a twig arching across behind them, is the photo I mean.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I wasn't even close! In your original post of 4 photos, the pic on the bottom right I would have been thinking Lichenomphalia umbellifera or Rickenella fibula, nowhere near Craterellus. I need to go over all the gill characteristics again to re-orient myself!!! So I'm enjoying the ID discussion 🐸
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Another angle showing how knobbly they are! Such lovely weirdos.
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Thanks for the post! I've been misidentifying these for a long time, thanks for providing multiple photos and the latin name, I marked them in my book 🐸
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I like how the inverted lambs grow Phlebodium aureum fronds from their feet; they do look like the rhizomes!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This is the niftiest bumblebee fact I've ever heard! (More please🐸)
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Reposted by Nimblenewt
I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.

Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
a hippopotamus is standing in a puddle of water next to two crocodiles
Alt: A crocodile doing his best to stay calm while a baby hippo noms on him.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
*obviously it is a great ID book for Coastal BC as well, where I live.🌲🇨🇦
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thanks for the link! I shall peruse with enthusiasm🐸
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
A whole book for your hoverflies - I'm so envious! The UK has such excellent books for all your insects! In my part of Canada (the West coast) we often have to make do with guidebooks from Eastern Canada or further south in the US, though it's gradually improving. 🐸
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
*replete with photos of creatures blissfully safe and cozy in their hollows, with a special shoutout to Vaux's Swifts, who remain super aerodynamically poised, even in repose.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Of course! We can all be social amoebae together!😀
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Also, #SlimeMoldBookClub begins! Or maybe #MyxoBookClub heehee
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Golly, want!!! *adds title feverishly to book quest list*
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM