8.13.26 Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL

 


Splitgills

Look at those little Splitgills growing on top of the bigger ones!

Lots of Splitgills growing on an apparently very nutritious log

Unidentified Giant Silkmoth cocoon

So cool! This one is fresh because it still has bright silk. I identified its host twig as a maple. After some consideration, my family and I decided that Oak Woods Cemetery was to dangerous (lots of mowing, violent storms, urban threats) for it. We brought it home and screwed the stick it was on to a branch in the backyard. We plan to unscrew it and bring it to someplace with plenty of maples when spring next year comes. Giant Silkmoth cocoons overwinter.

Unidentified Ichneumon wasp in the genus Aritranis. It is not Aritranis director, an invasive species of caterpillar parasitoid from Europe.

Milky-white Toothed Polypore (polypor that is milky-white) and Giraffe Spots fungus (fungus that looks like giraffe spots, lower left)

Top of Milky-white Toothed Polypores

Wedgling Moth

The common name Wedgling isn't the only weird name for this moth. It's in the gnus Galgula

Fall Webworm web. See that mass of brownish worm things just left of the dead leaves? That's a big pile of hungry, hungry caterpillars

A mushroom in a lawn. Unidentified

Pleated Inkcap


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