#yellow fly agaric

[annfryart]

some mushrooms I’ve been obsessed with recently, and two background variations because I love the feeling of both of them.

the mushrooms here are Cornflower Bolete (top left), Liver Milkcap (top right), Indigo Milkcap (bottom left), and Yellow Fly Agaric (bottom right)

[dumbshitwhocares]

[templeofshame]

Apparently that amanita-ful forest could've been lucrative if it wanted to get into black market sale of hallucinogenics? They're also edible if prepared correctly but beyond my risk-tolerance.

[boggy-witch]

Amanita flavoconia or amanita muscaria var. guessowii? Too many yellow amanitas.

Same day, same place, growing ~30cm apart.

[dansnaturepictures]

Ten of my favourite photos I took in October 2023 and month summary

The photos are of; fly agaric at Bolton's Bench in the New Forest, mushrooms at Pig Bush in the New Forest, dandelions out the front, Common Darter at Winnall Moors, Clouded Yellow out the front, Common Lizard at Bolderwood in the New Forest, New Forest Ponies at Leaden Hall, Mistle Thrush at Lakeside Country Park, a sky scene at Lakeside and autumn leaves in Winchester.

October seemed to fly by and it was a brilliant month of wildlife watching and taking photos again for me. It was a real surge into autumn with the vibrant, colourful and nourishing scenes as the coloured leaves put on their showstopping display, the flamboyant and fascinating mushrooms of fungi dominated and the rich golden angles of sunlight enchanted the month. Fungi was a key point of my October, as I was fortunate to see some of the key species of my year ones I always strive to see including fly agaric, amethyst deceiver, shaggy ink cap, common ink cap, pleated ink cap, yellow stagshorn, sulphur tuft, shaggy scalycap, parasol, poronia punctata (nail fungus) and turkey tail. Common puffball and the revelation of my autumn common earthball as well as a new one for me bleeding fairy helmet were other highlights of the many seen this month. For flowers the year naturally slowed down a bit, but species such as devil's bit scabious, daisy, oxeye daisy, Michaelmas daisy, dandelion, oxtongue one I loved delving into more this month, common toadflax, broad-leaved clover, white clover, white deadnettle, flowering gorse, bits of heather still in flower, hedgerow crane's-bill and tormentil brought beautiful colour to my walks still. As did rose hips, hawthorn and particularly holly berries this month as perhaps my best ever season for enjoying fruit continued. The colour of berry laden bushes and autumnal flair presented many fantastic opportunities to take in and photograph landscapes this month, with some gorgeous locations visited including lots in the New Forest which comes alive in autumn. From ever earlier sun setting and some sun rising scenes to the moon and rainbows in changeable weather it's been a top sky month for me too.

It was a fabulous insect month still with including in bits of unseasonably warm and sunny weather the Clouded Yellow being joined by one of the stars of the year Red Admiral with many seen again this month, Speckled Wood, Peacock, Brimstone and Small Copper with a pleasing amount of butterflies still about with a moth or two too which has been a key theme this month. Common Darter, Southern Hawker and Migrant Hawker continued to be very frequent sights for me this month having amazing experiences watching them, particularly at Winnall Moors and Lakeside. The Common Lizard alongside ladybirds and many spiders especially Long-bodied Cellar spiders with a fair few seen at home were highlights in other areas.

Onto birds and I had a brilliant month of thrushes, most excitingly witnessing the anticipated return of the Redwings at Lakeside and in the New Forest, a stalwart of the months ahead. The Mistle Thrush at Lakeside a key sighting this month, and away from thrushes there the Lesser Redpolls of the same day, Goldfinch, Cormorant, Buzzard, lots of Coots, the Ring-necked Parakeets, Long-tailed Tits enjoyed many times, Mute Swans, Jay enjoyed so many time another really key species of autumn and multiple Great Spotted Woodpecker and some Green Woodpecker views were other Lakeside highlights. Sparrowhawk, a wonderful couple of New Forest Woodlark sightings and Marsh Tit were other standouts this month. Finally onto mammals and alongside many great New Forest ponies and Fallow Deer encounters either seeing them or hearing the males bellow in the forest the big thing this month was seeing pigs out for pannage at Pig Bush and on journeys, the always surreal and marvelous site at this time of year as the New Forest commoner's turn out the pigs to gorge on the (harmful to ponies) acorns. Grey Squirrels and a magical Roe Deer encounter at Lakeside also stood out. Have a good November all.

[kirstielol]

a few more pictures from my trip, some mushrooms and critters i saw 🍄

[chaoticdesertdweller]

[fungivvitch]

[dendro80]

Flugsvamp. 🍄🍂🍁

September 2022

Brovallsskogen, Avesta, Dalarna, Sweden

[mossmosss]

i saw a fly amanita!!!!

[flesh-archivist]

Get high, do laundry, be sad because you dont know how to find mushrooms though you have much knowledge on foraging them, eat a filling meal

[mildhigh]

Ok so basically. Some of my myconids can bleed (Strychnine & Pileus) because they're either hybrids of milk cap mushrooms or ink cap mushrooms. (Strychnine is part ink cap & Pileus is a corrupted indigo milk cap.) Pileus' blood looks like the bit of blue on the thumb in this picture, and Strychnine's blood looks like... Well... Ink!

Spore doesn't bleed because he's a red cap toadstool, which doesn't have any milk or interesting decomposing properties.

[stupidscav]

bugs, spiders, and mushrooms under the cut

Btw that's sugar from a cinnamon roll on the rock. I set it out for ants but this works too

guhhh... too many sillies...

2nd to last is a fly agaric

[localsharkcryptid]

More Ouroboros Designs!!

Three leafwings and not one of them looks like a traditional leafwing. Nor does the secret fourth Leafwing.

Agaric (GNF) - Named after the Fly Agaric Mushroom (aka the mushroom 🍄) - Blue Flower phase - I'm probably going to play with his coloration more, to probably add in some browns but overall Im rather happy with him! Also considering making his design become duller or paler during the later arcs of the story.

Ponk (I have no ideas for their name and it is driving me insane) - Autumn phase - Ponk!! While I have no wof style name for them I do have a design that works very well. Debating on making their cowl (I think that's what it's called?? I'm unsure so please correct me if I'm wrong here ^^) cover more of their head/neck to match their dsmp design more but for now I'm happy with this! Also I'm thinking of giving them leafspeak but it's specifically towards their lemon tree.

Magnolia (Eret) - Autumn phase - Them! The Icon of gender! While I am working on the world building for her immortality this is probably the final design, sporting deep reds and golds I think it gives a very 'royal' appearance which plays well with their character. Also I have zero idea for why her eyes are like that, they just are, no sight problems just funky eyes.

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Also to expand on the Leafwings have color phases idea:

Phases in this case is being used to refer to the "variant", much like how african bush vipers are refered to as having "phases".

The Leafwings of the continent of Ouroboros are incredibly varied in their coloration, due to the large amount of refugees from the tree wars that ended up on the continent their color schemes remain vibrant and varied! In juxtaposition to their Pantala dwelling relatives, who have all but lost the color variations due to the need for survival and camouflage within the poison jungle.

Leafwing color phases are usually either Forest or Autumn, the classic greens or shades of orange, red, brown and yellow. There are also flower phases, which are rarer and show off brighter colors - usually as accents but with some outliers!

Plants come in an absurd amount of colors, so why shouldn't leafwings? :]

[dansnaturepictures]

The colours of my year 2022: Post 1 of 3-Blue, yellow and red 

Over the next three Wednesdays I felt like doing some posts bringing together photos I’ve taken this year featuring or dominated by a particular colour, with a few different colours for each post. I do love celebrating colours within my photos. 

The photos in this set in in order of appearance are the blues; view from a Flamborough Head/Bempton Cliffs boat trip in June, Adonis Blue butterfly at Martin Down in May, Blue Tit at Lakeside Country Park in November and great blue sky at Lakeside Country Park in May, the yellow common rock-rose at Martin Down in May, Clouded Yellow butterfly at Magdalen Hill in July and tree with yellow leaves out the front in August and the reds my favourite colour Puffin on Skomer Island in April, fly agaric at Millyford Bridge in the New Forest in October and red leaves at Abbey Gardens in November

[alleghenyfeverdreams]

Mushroom ornament drop: fly agaric (red and yellow forms), porcini, oyster, red russulas