The cap ranges from 7 to 20 cm across, is convex, and is bright orange, orange/brown, or reddish brown with a dry scaly surface. The stem is 25 to 265 mm long, 8 to 9 mm thick, and often narrows near the base. The frail ring is dusted with rusty orange spores, the flesh is yellow and the gill attachment to the stem is adnate to sub-decurrent. It has a bitter taste, stains red with KOH and turns green when cooked in a pan. The spore print is rusty orange. "Each individual mushroom can weigh several pounds. https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...
Los Neurópteros han sido considerados desde antiguo como una mezcla de libélulas y mariposas. Las características más representativas de la especie son: el par de alas membranosas y fuertemente venadas que poseen una coloración típicamente de camuflajes con tonos verdes y blanco pajizo. Las alas posteriores vestigiales (sin capacidad para volar) se reducen a una estrecha banda con tres nervaduras longitudinales que se ensanchan en el extremo formando un tirabuzón. El cuerpo incluyendo cabeza, tórax y abdomen no suele superar los 2 cm de longitud. Las alas funcionales alcanzan los 3 cm y las alas posteriores pueden llegar a los 5 cm. La cabeza es estilizada con un par de antenas filiformes y unos ojos compuestos de color pajizo. Los machos presentan unos cercos en el extremo del abdomen, que usarán para sujetar a la hembra durante la cópula. La larva tiene una morfología muy singular. Posee un "cuello" extremadamente largo en cuyo extremos se sitúan dos pinzas con forma arqueda. Este "cuello" representa la mitad de la longitud de la larva.
seems like an abandoned nest. size of a tennis ball.
Thanks for your comment John La Salle - that abdomen caught my eye ! have never seen anything like this around these parts for sure.
@Lauren - yes, I almost brushed it off the car, walking past it - then saw the pointy wiggly abdomen.
Common name: Black-crowned Night-heron
Scientific name: Nycticorax nycticorax
Mapping Nature on Your Smartphone
For the developers at New York start-up Networked Organisms, smartphones are the butterfly nets of the 21st Century. Their tool, Project Noah, lets people upload photos of plants and wildlife around them, creating a map of the natural world and contributing to scientific research in the process.
What kind of beetle? This app knows
Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos. But these days, smartphone owners have a lighter option: an app called Project Noah, which aims to help people identify plants and animals as well as collect data from "citizen scientists" about where certain species are located.
Designing ecosystems for talent development
Project Noah enables us to be part of a more focused online community where we can learn more about wildlife around us and contribute to scientific research. It pulls participants into deeper, more meaningful engagement by enabling people to go on “missions” to collectively map changes based on sightings.
A smart way to save wildlife
A modern invention that may also hold the key to saving species in the future. Project Noah is a global study that encourages nature lovers to document the wildlife they encounter, using a purpose built phone app and web community. In addition to the virtual "collection" of species, Project Noah encourages citizen science by linking up with existing surveys including the International Spider Survey and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.
Dial-a-Class
New mobile applications include a tool called NOAH that lets you take cellphone pictures of bugs and trees and then sends back an identification of the exact type in as little as 24 hours.
