The recent rains have created a party scene for slugs. Russulas, russulas, more russulas. The museum's mini-forest seems to have as many of these mushrooms as of trees right now. I had to watch my step to avoid stepping on them. And almost all of them have been on the slug buffet.
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| Russula sp., maybe Rosy Russula. With slug bites. |
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| Another pink-topped one. All the mushrooms were wet; so was everything else. |
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| A paler pink one. The slugs have shredded the gills. |
I didn't see any slugs; they're nocturnal beasties. It's as if an army of hungry slugs had risen from the moss after dark; could you have heard their determined chomping on a thousand mushrooms in the night? (Maybe, if the wind and the rain didn't drown them out. Listen here.)
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| They missed this pure white one. The mosaic patterned old leaves are Oregon grape. And there's a globular springtail up there just under the gills. |
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| Another of the white Russulas, with only a few nibbles taken from the edge. |
Next: a few boletes.
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Las lluvias recientes han organizado una fiesta para las babosas. En el menú: hongos, Russula sp., grandes cantidades de Russulas. El bosquecito del museo parece tener ahora tantos de estos hongos como de árboles; solo con poner atención pude evitar pisarlos. Y casi todos traen mordidas de babosas.
No vi ninguna babosa; son animales nocturnos. Pero es como si un ejército de babosas hambrientas se hubiera levantado en la oscuridad desde su escondite bajo el musgo; ¿habrías oido en la noche el sonido de sus rádulas raspando la carne de miles de hongos? (Tal vez sí, si es que el ruido de la lluvia y del viento no lo hubiera ahogado. Escucha.)
- Russula sp. Tal vez R. sanguinea. Con sus mordidas de babosa.
- Otro. Todos los hongos estaban bien mojados. Como todo el bosque ese dia.
- Uno con un color un poco menos fuerte. Bien mordido.
- Las babosas no encontraron este hongo blanco. Las hojas viejas con manchas son de Mahonia aquifolium. Y hay un colémbolo globular (Orden Symphypleona) debajo de las laminillas del hongo.
- Y otro de los Russulales blancos, con unos pocos mordiscos en el borde.
Mañana, unos cuantos boletales.
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