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Back on June 5th, I wrote about visiting a maple snag at Baird Woods that hosts a number of Artists Conk fungi (Ganoderma applanatum). Recently, we stopped to visit the snag and see how the fungus brackets are looking. As may be seen in the above photo, one of the brackets has become exceedingly large. […]
Yesterday, Don and I spent much of the afternoon wandering in search of late summer flora and fauna. One of our stops along the hike was to visit what, in past years, has been the site of a huge colony of Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus). These large, colorful bracket fungi often […]
Some of you may recall that, in early June, I posted photos of two clusters of furry fungi that we found growing on the bark of a decaying log in Baird Woods, near Herrons Mills in Lanark County. In that post, mycology buffs were invited to leave a comment if they thought they recognized […]
Last weekend, while hiking at Baird Woods in Lanark, Don discovered these fungi where, around this time last year, we found two Giant Ichneumon (Megarhyssa) wasps ovipositing into the same log. We had hoped to see them there again this year, but perhaps we were a little early.
There were two small cllusters […]
Yesterday, we spent the morning wandering around in Baird Woods up in Lanark. Although the trail isn’t that long - perhaps about a kilometer - there’s generally so much to see that it can take an hour or more to walk that distance. We’ve been visiting Baird Woods for quite a number of […]