Photos taken on or near the Cliatt Creek Trail - from camera with no GPS, will try to match locations with photos from phone that have GPS later.
"Jane's Pond". freshwater pond, plankton samples.
I know this is a mixture of several kinds of green algae, I am planning to divide up this observation into several.
Pollinating Nuphar (pond-lily) flowers as described in "Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America" by Skevington and Locke 2019.
plankton sample with plankton net, oligotrophic, tannin-rich freshwater
freshwater plankton sample, oligotrophic tannin-rich water in Pine Barrens.
Observation is of the little tiny organisms that are attached to the Tabellaria diatom.
On a dead or dying Ailanthus,.
Old mushroom.
The tree has the label '028' (picture 2).
This observation is particularly interesting because few mushrooms species grow on dead Ailanthus.
This tree is in a group of Ailanthuses previously infested with lanternflies and then covered with black mold.
The specimen was damaged by worms. DNA sequencing was completed
Found growing on tree bark in Skillman after a rainy period of days- microscope pictures included, oil bodies are visible!
Bright red insect (?) larvae found on shelf fungus- super neat! Looking under a dissection scope they have 6 legs and some sort of pincer on their butt.
Found growing alongside reindeer moss in Webb’s mill bog.
On Persian ironwoood (Parrotia persica), witchhazel family.
Leafminer
4 circular overwintering chambers with 1 larva in each
On this tree:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=132720&q=RG_02&subview=grid&verifiable=any
On persimmon leaves.
I wrapped the branch having the caterpillars in a mesh bag. The first day, they consumed almost all the leaves in the bag. Every day, I add fresh leaves in the bag.
Observations of the same colony (grid view)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?order_by=observed_on&place_id=51&q=RHCM_2023_HB_1&search_on=tags&subview=grid
Addendum:
Many years ago, I raised silkworms, from my entomology classes, in my dorm room.
Took a wrong turn and here they are. Observed from the shore just under the Albany street bridge
Makes sense considering this water must be chock full of minerals
Growing on concrete in alleyway, forming a filamentous mesh. Desiccation and cold-resistance leads me to believe it is most likely to be a Klebsormidium sp., 1st and 2nd are wetted, 3rd is dry.
These ants live inside a white fungus hanging on the underside of tree trunk in shade rainforest. What is the species? Never seen it before.
This might be the same plant that was observed at 5:42pm, but I'm not 100% sure so I am making a separate observation. (It was an out and back trail - this might have been the same plant photographed earlier in the day.)
Found growing on disturbed soil next to a trail in the Great Swamp
In stagnant freshwater pond, making thick floating masses of filamentous algae.
no visible cell walls, thick separate dark sporangia (?), filaments a lot thicker than Oedogonium. In stagnant freshwater pond, from surface covered in filamentous algae, Native Plant Garden at Rutgers Garden
From a distance, it looks like sawdust.
Under a lanternfly-infested Ailanthus.
Everything else on the ground is covered with black mold, which is feeding on lanternfly honeydew.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139331818 (3 weeks later, it is black)