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Infecting the coral fungus?

“Cordyceps” on pill bug?

Leaf mine on Myristica fatua (PVNH herbarium specimen GMP 4242).

Growing along the runoff from Athabasca Glacier (in the background).

ID’d in situ by Greg Plunkett, but couldn’t get up close enough for good photo.

On palm.

In a Virginia pine that hosts a Pine webworm moth "frass nest".

Found on Broomsedge bluestem near a pine woods

On Juncus sp. This specimen looks very much like this Danish Observation of C. alticolella: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93229562

Found under a log with a crew of adult Horned passalus beetles

On Eastern white pine

On Sorghastrum nutans in 30-yr old prairie restoration. Dead. Seems infested with fungus. ID uncertain, based on facial pattern.

Very mine-like at least. I don’t quite see frass, but maybe signs of surface emergence and surface feeding nearby as well? Peltigera lichen: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91745514

On Carduus acanthoides. I don’t think I saw any evidence of stem mining, just full leaves mined and dead.

On Eucalyptus.

Exceedingly small. Found on a horseweed. A miner found a few horseweeds over. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85598215

A number of strange.. eggs? emergence holes? bark pupae?.. on tulip poplar.

On Carya: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78500182

On Liriodendron tulipifera. Again, these mines look like they might be old?

On Carya: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78500182
The larva emerged the day after collection.

On Carya. Last photo is from two days after the others, the larva had emerged.