MUSHROOMS & SPIDERS

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You'll see some mushrooms here. Yep. But you'll also see some spiders just slightly outnumbered by mushrooms. I thought about publishing this thing in the dead or hibernating "Arachnids" community at first. But then I felt like flipping a coin would be the right thing to do.

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It was a two-euro coin. Number two on one side and the face of some dude that must have been important for someone in some period on the other. The fatty profile of that dude turned today's post into my contribution to the #FungiFriday by @ewkaw

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This interesting small mushroom from the Mycenaceae family grows ... ups, I mixed up the pictures. It's a spider. This is a spider, folks. Rounded abdomen, eight legs, no gills, no spores, it would be a weird mushroom if it were one.

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Here you can see the same spider doing something with its silk. I watched him exploring the leaf and releasing a bit of silk from time to time. It wasn't building a web, that's for sure. Maybe was trying to get lifted in the air. Spiders do that when the wind is blowing. The silk would function as a parachute of sorts in that case. But the air was still, so I think the arachnid had other plans. What those plans were, I don't know.
But I know the name of the species. This is the Nigma flavescens, a spider from the Dictynidae family.

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This is the Collybiopsis peronata. It's not a spider, that's all I can tell you about this mushroom. It grows and then decays like all living things. I used the small built-in flash of my camera in this photograph.

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Here you can see the same scene in ambient light. The photograph is slightly blurred. The light was low on the forest floor, and the exposure was long enough to make the shooting more difficult than I would have liked it to be.
More often than not, I like experimenting with the camera, trying this and that, and I enjoy staying around one mushroom for hours. But sometimes I daydream about photographs taking themselves without me doing anything.
The same applies to writing and assembling the posts.

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I don't know what mushroom is this. The only thing I photographed here is the top of its cap. I'm sure that it has gills underneath but I don't remember seeing them.

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The thing that caught my attention was the dead leaf that looked like it was glued to the top of the mushroom's inconspicuous brown cap.

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It was a stylish little detail, definitely something worth photographing.

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This is a spider from the genus Pardosa of the Lycosidae family.

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With quite a few similar, closely related wolf spiders present in the area, I can't tell you what species exactly this is.

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It's a lovely little spider, well-camouflaged in the leaf litter, a spider that runs fast and doesn't build webs.

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The small, elegant mushroom shown in this and the following photograph ...

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... looks like something from the genus Mycena of the Mycenaceae family. Could be the Mycena adscendens. Or the Mycena tenerrima. Or some other Mycena.

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Here you can see another spider.

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This is the Uloborus walckenaerius ...

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... a spider from the Uloboridae family.

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In this shot, the flash of my camera has made visible a stretch of silk between two of the spider's eight legs. The shape formed by the legs and the thread resembles a bow or a fretsaw.
I didn't expect this cool detail to appear in the photograph and I noticed it only today while preparing all the visuals for this post.

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Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! All these photographs were taken on the 24 of October, early in the morning, in the woods a couple of kilometers from the small town called Zminj.

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When it rests on its horizontal web, Uloborus walckenaerius looks like an inconspicuous fragment of dry vegetation that fell from the surrounding trees.

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This is the Simocybe centunculus, a small mushroom that grows on decaying wood. I used the flash of my camera in this photograph.

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This shot shows the Simocybe centunculus in ambient light.

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Here you can see the same mushroom from an angle that shows the top of its cap. Simocybe centunculus belongs to the Crepidotaceae family.

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I'm pretty sure that this is a mushroom from the genus Mycena of the Mycenaceae family. Can't tell you the name of the species.

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Here you can see the same mushroom photographed in ambient light.

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This is a young Mycena amicta fruiting body.

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Here I came closer so you can take a better look at the details.

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At some point, while I was photographing the mushrooms, an interesting larva fell from the lower branches of an oak tree right on the arm of a friend who was there in the woods with me. In the following photograph ...

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... the larva is posing on my arm.

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The scientific name of this mushroom is blah blah blah - blah blah blah. I don't know what species is this. But I'm sure that is a Mycena. Let's call it Mycena incognita for this occasion.

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This tryptich shows the same mushroom in ambient light. I mean, that applies to the two lateral shots, the central picture is a Photoshop edit.

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This thing looks like a ghostly little tree.

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It's a mycelium of some fungus but don't ask me what fungus exactly.

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I'm getting tired of this post. The end isn't far, fortunately.

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Here you can see another lovely brown mushroom I wasn't able to identify. It looks a lot like the Marasmius oreades but Marasmius oreades usually grows on lawns and meadows.

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This is Marasmius bulliardii. Maybe. Probably. I don't know. Good night.

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As always here on Hive, the photographs are my work.



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Wow, your way with words brings those forest photos to life! They're no longer just pictures, they're whispering secrets about spiders and mushrooms into my ears. You opened a door to that whole amazing world, thanks for sharing!

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I think the collection of spiders and mushrooms you have shown here are pretty much impressive. The information given on each is also insightful. The little trick the spider on the leaf was attempting was kinda funny. Thanks for taking your time exploring these wonderful natural habitats and sharing with us. Happy holidays friend.

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thank you. 😀 Happy Holidays.

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Lots of stories behind your mushroom hunt, I love some of the beautiful mushrooms you found, but not only mushrooms are in your story today, this spider completes your findings, thank you so much for sharing new experiences with us and I really like your findings today.

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Wow you are really very cool and it is amazing to find such good photos

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What a wonderful autumn journey through two of my favorite themes in nature!

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It is interesting to know the method you have when deciding which community to publish in, great that this one won.

I love this post combined between mushrooms and spiders, very interesting, the knowledge you have about them, and the narrative makes it even more interesting

Although all mushrooms are beautiful, I must say that the one that has caught my attention the most is that it looks like a “ghostly little tree.”

I take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful morning

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Such amazing tiny mushrooms ... awesome!

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Great photos, shown clearly everything and whenever I look at the spider, I became amazed that how this tiny creature can be so active and clever that walk through its web from point to point.

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The photos of the mushrooms looks so nice but I would love to ask do you people eat mushrooms over there?

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We eat them. I mean, most of us do.

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Hehehe... This should be the best biology class I have ever been in, very detailed and clear, even a layman like me can make something out for sure. The spider from the Uloboridae family stole my heart by its acrobatics on a tiny stretch of silk.
The mycena species are very beautiful, first the long white long-stemmed is dainty, then there's this other like a cupcake and finally the baby mycena which looks like a reading table lamp 😀. Thank you for sharing all of these.

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I think these are the best shots you’ve ever had. The pictures are so clear and very beautiful
I love it!!!!

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Nature marks its beauty in different images and styles. From the different types of mushrooms to the spiders and their spinning bowels, my day is made.

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I like the last one most, looking so beautiful. Good night.

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@borjan, Wow, what a beautiful view of nature you have captured with the camera. It seems that you love nature, which is why nature presents itself very beautifully in front of you.

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Yes, I have no doubts... You are a "Macro-Master" @borjan friend... A round of applause for you!

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Always bringing us beautiful mushrooms, they look like little bells, and one of them, the off-white one is very adorable.

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I'm getting tired of this post. The end isn't far, fortunately.

You got me smiling here...I was like "are you for real"? Can I ever get tired with such an amazing thing? I mean this photos are beautiful and I love every bit of it. At least you have given me the privilege to view and learn about most of this insects and mushrooms.

The way you photograph that spider was wow! I was mouth agape viewing it flying in the air. And that mushroom that got a dead leaf on it got me thinking, if there was such a mushroom in existence until I had to view it with my clear eyes😂

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😃 Yes, spiders are very entarteining acrobats.

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These are really amazing pictures you have here I must confess

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Beautiful mushrooms. The spider looks like having a bumpy stomach.

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I wanted to be a good photographer just like you. This set of photos is amazing.

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Collybiopsis peronata does not only have a cap but also has a boot as peronatus means wearing leather boots :D

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It must be closely related to the Puss in Boots! 😃 Or it's just a matter of convergent evolution.

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I really admire the beauty of the plant I must confess

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