Field Notes

Wood Ears
Wood ear mushrooms are soft gelatinous looking black fungi that grow, as many mushrooms do, on wood. They are named 'wood ear', which is apt because they look like little... Read more...
Sleeping bees
My friend Sarah told me that sometimes, after bees have had a good snack on some pollen, they take a little nap inside flowers. Their little butts stick out and... Read more...
Some thoughts about lichens
I learned recently that lichens are a symbiotic relationship formed between algae and fungus. This means that the many varieties that exist of lichen are actually each distinct collaborations between... Read more...