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Hopefully, his middle name isn't Jack.
3 weeks agoCheesy..🫣 couldn’t resist that one.. In all fairness, our neighbor has a grandson with this first name and has remained “unscathed”, because his peers are too ignorant to realize it is the same name as a type of cheese..
3 weeks agoYeah, but looks can be deceiving, which is probably why they look like that.
3 weeks agoAn interesting name, and they look downright scary in their larval stage!
3 weeks agoOnly thing I could find that looks similar is Gray's scalewort.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1158196/browse_photos
Fawning over the photos! :-)
3 weeks agoI'd call these gilled mushrooms, but who knows for sure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricales
I don't generally gives specific IDs for fungi due to their incredible variability, but this is some kind of shelf fungus.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47380-Polyporales
Fritillary
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1456562-Argynnis-cybele
Male dobsonfly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly
And the fact that you recognized the reference to Zoolander tells me your literary chops are as elite as mine. :-)
3 weeks agoLikely the middle strata just happens to be a bit more resistant to erosion, so they stand out. You made an interesting observation, though, because "which way was up?" is not an uncommon question for Geologists - for example, in some parts of the Ouachita Mountains (southwest Arkansas and southeast Oklahoma) the complex deformation from folding and faulting that occurred during the Ouachita orogeny (mountain-building period) makes it really hard to tell which strata was originally on top - "which way was up" is not always obvious. The following link offers a much more interesting explanation that you may enjoy - some of the outcrops you'll see I visited on field trips in college in the 1970's - the more interesting parts occur in the last half of the video; https://youtu.be/sQsH5XDHLzc?si=_vimWOpyX8aD1BDh
3 weeks agoFrank Lloyd Wright and Zoolander references in the same entry - that's quite a literary feat!
3 weeks agoBeautiful photo of you two!!
3 weeks ago
Come on, Bill, where's the commitment?? I read that there are more than 14,000 species of mushrooms described, and that mycologists estimate there are actually 500,000 to 10 million species so, of course, I would've thought you'd have them all memorized by now.
3 weeks agoThis one is now called Shelfungi shaneyfeltii, per my taxonomy vote.