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Glenn Spore Print Experiments

April 29, 2023 by Jade Craven

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Glenn really enjoyed one of my fungi spore print experiments recently, so decided to see what he could come up with. This included cutting some of them into shapes and putting both water and paint on the fungi.

The results were a bit average but I LOVE his out-of-the-box thinking. Imagine what we can do when we both know what we are doing 🙂

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Accidental Spore Print SUCCESS!

April 25, 2023 by Jade Craven

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Yesterday, I was putting the washing on the clothesline when I noticed a couple of small mushrooms nearby. I hadn’t done a spore print experiment in a while.

This is largely due to the many failures I’ve experienced. It is so demoralizing when I put a lot of effort into finding the fungi only for the spore print to fail.

I found some scratch paper that I’d bought for Glenn and put them on that. Then promptly forgot about them.

I returned after 8 hours and looked at the print. It is probably the best one I’ve ever done. Glenn is in love with it and thinks it looks like a galaxy. He is hoping to do ones of his own.

I see more spore print experiments in our near future.

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Whitish Meadow Katydid in My Backyard

January 28, 2023 by Jade Craven

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Bugs In Suburbia

January 21, 2019 by Jade Craven Leave a Comment

Recently, I went to Belmont to get some photos for my street photography blog. I love the suburbs of Highton and Belmont. Many of the areas I’ve lived in or walk around are close to the river and have much more interesting bugs than I get at my house in Corio. Of course, my garden is pretty crap there.

I was walking to the bus stop on Roslyn Road when I saw this on the path. It was a bunch of harlequin bugs, or dindymus versicolour, feasting on something that I couldn’t figure out. I thought it was cool… although it was less cool when I missed my bus!

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Interesting Invertebrates In Mums Garden

December 9, 2018 by Jade Craven Leave a Comment

I did some weeding while at my parents recently. I weeded a patch that is a lot damper than the other areas of the garden and was able to find different bugs to what I normally saw.

Pie Dish Beetle

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