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Eith apothecia

On Picea glauca, in mixed woods.

on Picea mariana branch

On Yellow Birch

On red maple

Mosquitoes photo-bombed the last picture of the full plant :/

Extra big apothecia @jameschurchill

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Four fox kits.

On red maple in a riverside swamp.
Hanging from the underside of a bent trunk
Several thalli of various sizes. A few, just forming, apothecia.
Abundant pycnidia

Moving slowly on road
6C

First record for me!

Moved off road

Red maple

On Red maple within 10m of hwy 325. Host tree is 60-70% covered in Pannaria lurida thalli. Very impressive!

On Red Maple in alder + RM dominated wetland

On a Red maple next to a small stream.

Found on fine branchlet of a stunted Balsam fir in a Red Maple dominated treed swamp.

First record for FNP

On Red Maple heartwood
Verified by Frances Anderson

Protists?

On Red maple, dense Black Huckleberry shrub cover in habitat. Also note: Anzia colpodes adjacent to the Parmotrima.

Known location. On RM

Rissers Beach Prov Park

First time I’ve seen one of these landed. I love they way they look

Mines collected 31 Oct 2021. Overwintered in fridge. Larvae emerged from mines and pupated in early April.

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On Red Oak - on Crown land slated for harvest - upland oak stand with some red maple - east and up slope from a large wetland
My 1000th observation on iNat!

Vocal and visible

first blue felt ive seen outside of Digby County so just celebrating and noting with iNat ob. (This already included in special places reporting by A Belliveau). On red maple in swamp

6 thalli on mature sugar maple. Growing with Punctelia appalachensis

On Thuja occidentalis in immature mixed woods.

It was awesome to find a new occurrence of this cool species, which was one of my prime targets for the day, after 8 km of hot, hard, bog-slogging.

On Red Maple

short spine form, growing on Laminaria