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Growing on dead and living Campsis radicans vines in the floodplain of Third Creek. Caps dry; glabrous; 16.9 wide and 3.2 mm. Stems dry; up to 5.7 mm long and 0.9 mm wide. Odor not distinctive. Not bioluminescent.

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 2, 2024.

Rooting in soil under Carya illinoiensis. Caps viscid, up to 59.1 mm wide and 10.3 mm tall. Gills adnexed. Stems rooting and not bruising. Not bioluminescent. Odor not distinctive. Spore print white. Clamps present in the lamellar trama. Pleurocystidia scattered, hyaline, smooth, and mostly fusoid-ventricose. Cheilocystidia forming a sterile band, smooth, thin-walled, and clavate. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Spores hyaline and smooth. Spore measurements: (14.6) 15.4 – 19.7 (22.5) × (10.1) 10.13 – 13.6 (14.7) µm; Q = (1.3) 1.4 – 1.68 (1.7); N = 30; Me = 17.6 × 11.7 µm; Qe = 1.5

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 7, 2024.

This observation is not for the insect, but for the fungus that appears to have killed it. I found this wasp already dead, missing its wings and apparently clinging to a plant with its jaws even in death.
A separate observation for the wasp can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190519624

Growing abundantly on Odocoileus virginianus dung. Subiculum lacking. Apothecia with whitish hairs in the field. Hairs brown, setiform, 0-septate and possibly dextrinoid in Melzer’s reagent. Hair measurements: (277.7) 293.5 – 530.4 (587.3) × (17.3) 21.6 – 34.3 (36.9) µm, Q = (11.5) 12.7 – 20.2 (24.6); N = 16, Me = 423.8 × 27.3 µm; Qe = 15.8. Paraphyses hyaline and branched. Asci cylindrical, unitunicate, operculate, 8-spored and uniseriate. Spores smooth and hyaline. Spore measurements: (14.8) 17.6 – 20.6 (21.3) × (8.4) 8.7 – 9.3 (9.7) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.9 – 2.3 (2.4); N = 30, Me = 19.3 × 9 µm; Qe = 2.1

Collected by John Plischke III on the Ohio Mushroom Society’s 2019 summer foray. Growing on a cicada. Conidia and conidiophores appearing hyaline under the microscope. Conidia catennulat, smooth, and thin-walled. Conidia measurements: (3.9) 5.2 – 6.6 (7.5) × (2) 2.2 – 2.7 (2.9) µm, Q = (1.4) 1.9 – 2.8 (3.1); N = 30, Me = 5.9 × 2.4 µm; Qe = 2.4