Silver Spotted Skipper Butterflies

Silver Spotted Skipper Butterflies on Sedum
Epargyreus Clarus
The Silver-spotted Skipper shows a clear preference for blue, red, pink, and purple flowers and rarely visit yellow flower.

Silver Spotted Skipper Butterfly on Echinacea

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New Family Member

 New Family Member at my Sister's home, today! Meet Tessra. Isn't she cute?

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Resinous Polypore Mushrooms

Resinous Polypore Mushrooms

Ischnoderma resinosum. Late Fall Polypore.

This is a very common edible-when-young fungus.

Resinous Polypore Mushrooms

Even as they age, these mushrooms remain beautiful, especially with deepening colors and

lines that make them even more interesting. Can the same be said about us?

There are more than 100,000 colors of synthetic dyes produced commercially, mainly for use in textile, paper, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Many of these dyes  are toxic and carcinogenic to living organisms, including humans. Shockingly, around 280,000 tons of textile dyes are discharged every year worldwide.

The resinous polypore, is a white rot fungus capable of degrading organic pollutants… including synthetic dyes. It's effectiveness has been shown to be even greater than the degradation efficiency of oyster and turkey tail mushrooms, which are also powerful bio-remediators.

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Ollie Sighting

Ollie sighting, while on a Fall foliage run, yesterday. Ollie the Camel lives at the Round Barn Merinos Farm on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, VT. with a flock of sheep and an alpaca. With two humps, the Bactrian camel, is part of what Judith Giusto, owner of Round Barn Merinos, a farm and shop in the small, northern Vermont village, calls her “fiber zoo.” Judith obtained Ollie in September 2002, when he was just two months old. The down from Ollie’s coat, along with the fibers from merino sheep are used to create sweaters, scarves, afghans and many other pieces of warm clothing.

Ollie was bred in Wisconsin. Bactrian Camels originate in the steppe country of Eurasia and Mongolia. There are more domesticated Bactrian Camels than wild Bactrian Camels. For a while there was some concern that they were extinct in the wild. 

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Tinder Conk Mushrooms

Tinder Conk Mushrooms
Tinder fungus or Fomes fomentarius, also known as Tinder Polypore.
Common on dead or dying birch and occasionally other trees.
Medicinal use: Traditionally used as a styptic agent, this common mushroom has significant
anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Steeped to make a tea, drink hot or chilled.
This mushroom has been used for millenia as an instrument for starting fires.

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Toad Lily

 Toad Lily

Tricyrtis hirta, the toad lily, or hairy toad lily, is a Japanese species of hardy perennial plants in the lily family. 

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Sunset On Lake Champlain

 Sunset On Lake Champlain

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