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Witches' broom (1st pic) on branches of a hackberry tree (2nd pic) at Horseshoe Cove. Brooms caused by a powdery mildew fungus (Sphaerotheca phytoptophila) and a minute, wormlike, eriophyid mite (Eriophyes celtis, synonym Aceria snetsingeri) about 200 microns long http://ipm.illinois.edu/diseases/series600/rpd662/

This obs is for the white fungus growing on the Apiosporina morbosa galls.

I'm hoping I'll be able to provide take some micrographs soon, but I don't know how useful they'll be given I don't know what I'm doing.

Clung to the beak of a Whimbrel that was foraging in the seaweed, the bird could not dislodge it, after a couple of minutes the isopod dropped off. The Whimbrel continued to feed with the isopod on board.

On edge of Jack Pine Plantation just outside of Grayling, Mi. Could not locate in either Butterflies of Michigan or Swift Gd to Butterflies. Puddling with a group of Blues and Skippers but lone sighting.