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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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Typical Shield Lichens (Subfamily Parmelioideae)Observer
alleyesDescription
In size 8- 10 inches in circumference with variation in colour from the center outward. it has a flat surface with a crinkled appearance. Growing in a rotten log with no other specimens like it nearby.
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
alleyesDescription
Looks like a bracket fungus but it is much thinner through and the edge is delicate, very little variation in colour with only slight greenish tinge on the surface. The attachment go the rotting log is more of a peach . The under surface is again white with no gills that I could see. Seems fairly unusual to the area.
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Waved Silk-Moss (Plagiothecium undulatum)Observer
alleyesDescription
Flat growing mat with slippery moist appearance. The leaves are flat strands with little if any branching. The leaf edges are slightly scalloped and blunt, with some thickness to the strands.
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Western Black Carpenter Ant (Camponotus modoc)Observer
alleyesDescription
A quick moving ant that can carry proportionately large bits of food,Approximately 10 millimeters in length with a faint grey band on the last body segment. This may be a combination of black lines and grey colour. The mandibles are not overly big. These ants have only recently been active: can see them