 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) on pieces of wood on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, April 30, 2022
 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) under a rotting log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 26, 2020
 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) on rotting wood in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 5, 2019
 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville. Texas, April 16, 2019
 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) found in rotten wood in Huntsville Park. Texas, April 1, 2018
 Larva of bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) on rotting wood in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 24, 2021
 Cross section of polypore mushrooms Tyromyces fumidiceps on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
 Polypore mushrooms Microporellus obovatus on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
 Polypore mushrooms Tyromyces fumidiceps on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
 Violet mushrooms Gymnopus iocephalus on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
 Underside of polypore mushrooms Tyromyces fumidiceps on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
 False turkeytail mushrooms (Stereum ostrea) on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
 Wolf s Milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 4, 2022
 Spores of milkcap mushrooms Lactarius rimosellus from rotting wood, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Jewel beetle (Buprestidae) taken from Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 30, 2020
 Corticioid fungus on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Underside of jewel beetle (Buprestidae) taken from Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 30, 2020
 Texture of some crust fungus on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 29, 2021
 Small Gerronema mushrooms on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2019
 Mushrooms Entoloma parasiticum on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 29, 2021
 White resupinate polypore mushroom on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 5, 2023
 Some yellow corticioid fungus on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Close-up of white resupinate polypore mushroom on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 5, 2023
 Hydnoid mushroom Stecchericium ochraceum(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2019
 Oysterling mushrooms Clitopilus hobsonii on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 19, 2023
 Stagshorn mushrooms Calocera cornea on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2021
 Wilted small Gerronema mushrooms on rotting oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2019
 Brown resupinate polypore mushroom on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla on rotting pine wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Helvella sulcata mushroom (pale form of Helvella lacunosa) in area of floodplain near rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 15, 2020
 Toothed prostrate mushroom Stecchericium ochraceum(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2019
 Coral slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Rounded earthstar mushrooms (Geastrum saccatum) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 7, 2020
 Spores of some orange corticioid fungus from rotting wood collected a day before on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 22, 2023
 Drying coral slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Close up of a toothed prostrate mushroom Stecchericium ochraceum(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 4, 2019
 Basidia of mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla from rotting pine wood, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Wolf s Milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 10, 2020
 Resupinate polypore mushroom Rigidoporus vinctus (Physisporinus vinctus)(?) in cross section on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2019
 Basidia and spores of mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla from rotting pine wood, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Basidia and cystidia of mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla from rotting pine wood, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Tissues (at low magnification) of mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla from rotting pine wood, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) from Texas in entomological collection in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 21, 2009
 Redring Milkweed (Asclepias variegata) with a flower longhorn beetle Leptura annularis on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 17, 2024
 Close-up of some corticioid (crust) fungus on rotting wood of a deciduous tree with termite holes on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 29, 2021
 Underside of mushrooms Hydropus omphaliiformis(?) on a piece of wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 4, 2022
 Polypore mushrooms Microporellus obovatus on rotten oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
 Tiger sawgill mushrooms (Lentinus tigrinus) on pieces of wood in dried Caney Creek on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
 Resupinate polypore mushroom Rigidoporus vinctus (Physisporinus vinctus)(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2019
 Cross section of sclerotium "Tuckahoe" of a wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 10, 2020
 Smoky-headed cheese polypore fungus (Tyromyces fumidiceps)(?) on underside of a fallen elm (blackened upper surface), with brown rotting wood in muddy area, under hickory and oaks on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Larva of bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) under a log in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 24, 2021
 Zoned cap of a polypore mushroom Microporellus obovatus on rotten oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
 Caps of polypore mushrooms Microporellus obovatus on rotten oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
 Mushrooms Hydropus omphaliiformis(?) on a piece of wood in area of floodplain on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 4, 2022
 Brown resupinate polypore mushroom Rigidoporus vinctus (Physisporinus vinctus)(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2019
 Close-up of yellow merulioid fungus Leucogyrophana pinastri (Hydnomerulius pinastri) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 19, 2023
 Margin of yellow merulioid fungus Leucogyrophana pinastri (Hydnomerulius pinastri) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 19, 2023
 Pink resupinate polypore mushroom Rigidoporus vinctus (Physisporinus vinctus)(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2019
 Close up of resupinate polypore mushroom Rigidoporus vinctus (Physisporinus vinctus)(?) on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2019
 Corticioid fungus Leucogyrophana olivascens (Penttilamyces olivascens, or Serpula, Coniophora) on rotting pine wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Young leaves of some tree on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 16, 2022
 Young leaf of muscadine grape on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 16, 2022
 Fragments of sclerotium "Tuckahoe" of a wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 10, 2020
 Remains of a wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa eaten by hogs on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 10, 2020
 Pitch tube of black turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus terebrans(?)) in a pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 26, 2020
 Pitch tube of black turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus terebrans) on a pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 26, 2020
 Sclerotium "Tuckahoe" of a wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa dug out by hogs in a pine forest on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 10, 2020
 Blooming lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata) on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 16, 2022
 Sclerotium "Tuckahoe" of a wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa in a shallow pit dug by hogs on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 10, 2020
 A slug on rotting wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville, Texas, August 4, 2018
 Helvella sulcata mushroom (pale form of Helvella lacunosa) among rotting leaves on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 15, 2020
 Flower heads of woolly-white (Hymenopappus artemisiaefolius) on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 16, 2022
 Mushrooms Entoloma parasiticum under a rotting oak log on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 12, 2020
 Young leaf of mustang grape showing water drops on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 16, 2022
 Mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Some amorphous fungus on decomposing oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 16, 2021
 Spores of some white resupinate polypore mushroom from soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump, collected on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Some white resupinate polypore mushroom on soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump of oak or elm in muddy area on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Close-up of a mushroom Chromosera cyanophylla on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Group of mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla with their underside on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Dead bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) with green muscardine disease caused by mold like parasitic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae(?) collected during a mushroom walk on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, June 8, 2019
 Close-up of some amorphous fungus on decomposing oak wood on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 16, 2021
 Close-up of some white resupinate polypore mushroom on soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump of oak or elm in muddy area on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Texture of some white resupinate polypore mushroom on soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump of oak or elm in muddy area on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Coral slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa) on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2019
 Some white resupinate polypore mushroom on a rotting oak or may be pine stump on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 10, 2020
 Mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla and their side view on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Some white corticioid (crust) fungus on a rotting log of deciduous tree on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 29, 2021
 Wolf s Milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on a rotting log on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 16, 2021
 Mushrooms Chromosera cyanophylla with basal mycelium on a rotting pine on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 22, 2023
 Cross section of polypore mushroom Inonotus quercustris on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 14, 2022
 Various brown leaves on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 30, 2022
 Morning mist on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 30, 2022
 Dry leaf of sow palmetto on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 30, 2022
 Darkening of cut piece of some white resupinate polypore mushroom on soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump of oak or elm in muddy area on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Pore surface of some white resupinate polypore mushroom on soft rotten wood at the base of a tilted stump of oak or elm in muddy area on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 6, 2024
 Cross section of pineapple bolete mushrooms (Boletellus ananas) on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2022
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