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Springtail on a mushroom found by @damontighe at the indicated time. Specimens were photographed later that evening in San Francisco at a KQED Live event.

This springtail was missing one leg and part of one antenna.

under a slight shrump in the decomposed grantie like sand was a large fruiting of this mushrooms making a half circle around a Chamise plant. Manzanita was ~5 m away, otherwise it was all chamise. No scent. very viscid cap with a slime veil extending down to the stem, stem had large ridge on it making it slightly flocculus. cap had a grey hue to it in situ, but it may have been due to it being past sundown

UVF 365 nm = dramatic blue

Datos de Yopal: registrado en Bosque Seco Tropical (temporada de lluvia). Precipitación mínima de 15 – 25 mm en los meses de enero y diciembre, precipitación máxima 350 mm y 300 mm en los meses de mayo, junio y julio; con menos de 60 mm de lluvia en el mes más seco y precipitación anual superior a 1270 mm. Cuenta con valores mínimos de humedad relativa a inicio del año (65%), y valores más altos en junio, julio, agosto y septiembre (90-85%). Cuenta con una altura sobre el nivel del mar entre 0 y 1000 m, una pluviosidad entre 2000 y 4000 mm y temperatura promedio mayor de 24 °C, con amplitud de temperatura máxima de 8 °C, como se referencia en DANE. Los máximos valores de temperatura no sobrepasan los 36 °C y los mínimos valores no logran bajar los 19 °C que se presentan en febrero y en julio, respectivamente. Temperatura media anual mayor de 20 °C, con una estación seca y una lluviosa bien definidas (Bustamante et al., 2017; DANE, 1999; Castro y Sosa, 2017).

Se observa con frecuencia plantas representativas de la zona como Yarumo (Cecropia peltata), Jobo (Spondias mombin), Cedro (Cedrela odorata), Nauno (Albizzia guachepele), Cañafistol (Cassia moschata), Flor blanco (Tabebuia orinocensis), Uña de gato (Cynodon dactylon), entre otras.

Te dejo algunas recomendaciones para tus registros. Las fotografías y descripciones que hagas, te van a permitir identificar el ejemplar. Más información en: https://colombia.inaturalist.org/journal/teodoro_chivatabedoya/54937-registro-de-hongos-macromicetos

Hongos de Colombia (Bogotá, 2019):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343651635_Hongos_de_Colombia_Contribucion_al_Conocimiento_de_la_Biota_Fungica_en_Ecosistemas_de_Humedal_Bosques_Andinos_Subparamos_y_Paramos_de_Bogota_DC

Bibliografía General de Macromicetos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19VZivWVc5ueyBABX73KIfBGei9smvMzh?usp=sharing

Otras recomendaciones en:
Grupo XYLARIA Hongos de Colombia ©2016
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/groups/xylariahongosBogota/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hongos_colombia/

Found by @luanroberts. About 7 mm. Orange bands on white-tipped oral tentacles, orange bands on the white-tipped rhinophores, and white specks on the surface of the body.

Obelia and Tubularia (Pink-mouth hydroid) present elsewhere in the marina in small quantities, but didn't see it feeding.

Looks vaguely like the pale one in the left-side photo on Page 124 of Behrens & Hermosillo's Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs, 2005. Same individual as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91332884

Update: this hydroid https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92299348 was the only hydroid on the boat bumper where it was found.

Found in landscaping. 3 or 4 mushrooms total. Very strong red staining after about 30 seconds. Image 8 is cheilocystidia. All microscopy images taken at 1000x.

Spores: 5 - 6.2 x 3 - 3.5 µm
Mean: 5.5 x 3.3 µm
N: 28
Q: 1.66
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Had green stains on cap, so I dropped KOH on it and surprisingly it caused a green reaction.

Microscopy =
spores = 9-10 x 6
Pleurocystidia = lanceolate to fusiform, thick walled and numerous

Gill edges UV fluorescent

Growing in the decomposing material underneath patches of reeds next to the lake shore. No blueing noted. Smell fungoid, taste fungoid with very slight bitterness. No reaction to KOH on pileus or stipe. No UV fluorescence noted at unknown wavelength of UV flashlight. Micrographs are at 1000x using congo red washed with KOH of the gill edge with cheilocystidia, and the non-stained gill edge using KOH. Hygrophanous cap, Spore print something like chocolate lavender.

NOTE: The first photo does not accurately show the color of the pileus, please see other photos.