365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Zombie Season
Day 3: Zombie season is at hand! Or maybe that should be "at fingernails." They're reaching up from the forest floor, from stumps, from rock crevices and logs. They're coming to get you, and they want to eat your brains! Yes, lichens of all sorts are celebrating the return of cool, wet weather, and Peltigera membranacea is no exception. One of the "pelt" lichens, its fruiting bodies (apothecia) look suspiciously like the tips of zombie fingers groping for an ankle from beyond the grave. Will you be dragged into their lair this Hallowe'en? Mind your step and don't go out after dark! They're waiting, waiting, waiting...
Labels:
apothecia,
pelt lichen,
Peltigera membranacea
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