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Smut fungus on big bluestem seed heads/culms

Culm smut of Big Bluestem

On quaking aspen catkin

Small hidden cell in bur oak bud

Detachable, round, onion like with very thin, pale white papery cover and nipple on the end. Hidden cell in bur oak bud. Collected

For host plant. Galls were collected except for the large moth like gall at the tip which was dropped and lost

Lactuca sp

Compass plant petiole

Affecting several species of lichens on a young sugar maple along a stream

Somthing on cladonia.

Very mine-like at least. I don’t quite see frass, but maybe signs of surface emergence and surface feeding nearby as well? Peltigera lichen: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91745514

What are all those speckles ??

Fungus growing out of a Ash bullet gall midge (Dasineura pellex) found on a green ash

Unknown Tag Alder Catkin Borer moth

On Pseudevernia consocians (wet).

on ricasolia querzicans

Leaf base gall on blackberry sp

Pin cherry

Strange growth on prairie dropseed grass