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Credit goes to @pcareless for finding these beauties! I was looking at some half frozen Crematogaster sp. under a rock when I looked over and noticed that Phil was eating some things off the ground. He turned to me and said "Try this tasty crunch moss!" I assumed he was suffering from March Madness but he was right! They had the sweet crunchy tang of Buxbaumia! It was then that we came up with the idea for our forthcoming field guide entitled "A guide to identifying mosses by shoving them in your mouth"

A pinkish morph of the Fatmucket mussel was once common in Lake Ontario, at Niagara Shores. Unfortunately zebra mussels eliminated this population in the 90’s. The large shell is a Giant Floater. Giant Floaters still exist in the ponds here.