A bit over a year ago, in January of 2021, Sandy started noticing that her jade plants (Crassula_ovata) were not putting forth new leaves properly. The leaf buds were stunted, deformed, and mostly died and fell off rather than growing out properly. And, looking at the plants more closely, she saw that there were small cottony growths mostly at the bases of the leaves.
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Extremely tiny reddish-brown soil mite
Elongated Springtail from Terrarium
The pine plantation west of our house was thinned back in 2014, and the stumps left behind from the cut trees have gotten pretty rotten and punky. And, on September 19 of 2020, we found these little pink fungusy things popping up between the growth rings.
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The Maasto Hiihto trails up north of Hancock are primarily cross-country skiing trails[1], but they are also open for general hiking when there is no snow on the ground. When we went up there on August 2, 2020, it had been raining for a while, and the mushrooms were popping up in some numbers. There were quite a number of these mostly-red ones, which were about the size of the palm of my hand.
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