Look at that beautiful Cordyceps fungus 😍🤩! All those pimple-like bumps are spore-bearing structures called perithecia that collectively contain hundreds of thousands to millions of ascospores.

What’s your first memory when you see one of these machines? Saw this gem today in Big Jim’s in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

If Ruby Red, our red footed tortoise, ever complains to authorities about her living conditions here in Morgantown, remember this video of her enjoying her humid breakfast after soaking in a warm bath for 30 minutes!

Made use of the coral tooth fungus we found earlier today and made pesto grilled chicken over coral tooth risotto with fresh sliced yellow tomatoes. Will definitely make again! 😋👨‍🍳

Tulip is open to anything but our new litter robot is a little perplexing. She watched it self clean and her eyes were reminiscent of when Max first licked her!

Close up of coral tooth fungus!

New first time fungus for me: Climacocystis borealis 🤩😍! Spotted these at the base of a dead hemlock tree at Cathedral State Park in Aurora, West Virginia. This saprotrophic bracket fungus typically fruits on conifer trunks near the base or on roots.

If finding chicken of the woods was a crime, I’d be serving a life sentence.

Ok who has tips for taking parental leave as a PI, specifically for lab management? (Pls rt)

I half expected this polypore to open its mouth and yell at me!