Wildlife Spottings | Project Noah

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Sandwort

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Rocky mountaintop on Pillar

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Spotting

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

On some Alpine Bearberry on top of Pillar ...

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Snow Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Very isidiate, dense patch

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Crabseye Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Rocky outcropping on top of Pillar

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Crabseye Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Rock outcropping on top of Pillar

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Crabseye Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Rock outcropping on Pillar

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Ichneumon Wasp

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Tribe Ichneumonini. Found dead

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Smoky Crottle

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Large boulder on top of Pillar

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Whiteworm Lichen

by MachiAlaska, USA

I find patches of these scattered around the

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Spotting

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Faded moth

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Spotting

by MachiAlaska, USA

A gall growing on Lingonberry. I believe it is fungal rather than insect-related

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Rock Tripe

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Wrinkled top and smooth underside

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Fragile Ball Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Coral-like lichen

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Cetraria Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Pillar

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Ball Lichen

by MachiAlaska, USA

On top of Pillar

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Ground Beetle

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Ground Beetle with mites on it

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Spotting

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Silvery gray mushrooms with brown/tan gills. Cantharellula umbonata?

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Black-stemmed Mushroom

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Among lichens, mosses, and small plants on top of

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Alpine Firmoss

by Machi

Rocky ground halfway up Pillar

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Heath Foxhair Lichen

by Machi

Moss-like lichen

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Bighorn Cladonia

by MachiAlaska, USA

On Pillar

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Common Sawfly

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Black and white sawfly that looked like it was chewing on the lupine flowers.

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Dwarf Dogwood

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

The clusters in the middle turn into red berries after the petals fall off.

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Calthaleaf Avens

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Grassy area next to a mountain gravel path ...

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Alpine Heuchera

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Fairly common around here, especially on rocky ground

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Crossbill

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

White-winged Crossbill or Red Crossbill female or juvenile.

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Map Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

One of the dozens of lichen species I found on this

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Kamchatka Rhododendron

by MachiAlaska, USA

Plentiful on this mountain. They look like ...

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Caribou Leaf

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Very similar to Arctic Wormwood: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1728986379

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Partridgefoot

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

You can see here the runners of the plant that help it spread.

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Creeping Sibbaldia

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

The leaves are distinctive and the plant can be identified by them even without ...

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Rock Tripe

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Very interesting apothecia that have a bit of a fingerprint pattern

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Ragged Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Spider web-like lichen

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Wandering Fleabane

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Top of pillar

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Western Canada Goldenrod

by MachiAlaska, USA

I often see these on roadsides and disturbed areas

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Orange Boulder Lichen

by MachiAlaska, USA

Rust orange thallus with black-rimmed gray apothecia

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Crabseye Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Ochrolechia frigida or O. alaskana

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Ragged Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Webby-looking lichen

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Pincushion Plant

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

It's easy to see where the name comes from! These are what remains after the ...

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Bowl Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

The last photo shows Psoroma, Sphaerophorus fragilis, Cladonia, and Thamnolia ...

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Wandering Fleabane

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Pale pink to purple flowers

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Blackcurly Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Pseudephebe minuscula or P. minuscula? Reminds me of seaweed

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Rock Tripe

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Umbilicaria hyperborea or nylanderiana? I love the apothecia on these. They ...

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Cup Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Old and dead. They are more of a greenish gray when living

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Cabbage Lung Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Not sure because it looks too smooth

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Waxy Cap Mushroom

by MachiAlaska, USA

Orange to yellow mushroom. Hygrocybe conica?

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Powdery Almond Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

White and brown thallus. Ascomata absent.

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Porpidia Lichen

by MachiKodiak, Alaska, USA

Possibly P. flavicunda. I mistook it for Lecidea intially