From 9.29.26-10.5.26 my father, sister and I drove from Chicago, IL to Las Vegas, NM and back. This is part of Day 7.
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| New Mexican Rock Shield lichen (Xanthoparmelia novomexicana) |
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| Close-up of New Mexican Rock Shield lichen (Xanthoparmelia novomexicana) |
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| New Mexican Rock Shield lichen (Xanthoparmelia novomexicana) with spore producing organs (apothecia in this case) of many different sizes. |
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| New Mexican Rock Shield lichen (Xanthoparmelia novomexicana) |
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| So much New Mexican Rock Shield! |
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| SO MUCH NEW MEXICAN ROCK SHIELD LICHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Still more |
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| Common Greenshield |
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| Bristly Beard Lichen (Usnea hirta) |
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| Bristly Beard Lichen and an unidentified foliose (leafy) lichen |
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| Common Loopwing Aphideater fly on some beard lichen. Adults are pollinators, maggots eat aphids, and it found very widely across the northern hemisphere |
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| Unidentified crustose lichen |
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| More unidentified crustose lichen |
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| Even more unidentified crustose lichen |
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| Yeah, lost of unidentified crustose lichen |
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| Beard lichen, moss, and some lichen on rock |
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| Beard lichen, unidentified shield lichens, and moss |
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| Unidentified crustose lichens and an unidentified shield lichen |
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| Unidentified crustose lichen |
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| Unidentified shield lichens growing on a extremely strange and unexpected place: bare soil. Shield lichens are generally lichen' bark and rock, not soil. So weird |
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| Lichens on a twig |
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| Lichen |
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| Lichen on a Southwestern Ponderosa Pine branch |
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| Beard lichen |
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| Beard and other lichen |
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