Miranda Jans (@mmejans) · DIRTY

Miranda Jans

@mmejans

I like all things fungi, lichen, and slime mold; and would like to learn more about them. Also bugs! Currently live in Hawaii. All photos are mine, unless otherwise stated.

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Miranda Jans@mmejans· 12d

Compact fruticose lichen growing along Manana trail, Oahu #fungifriends

Light grey, coral shaped, branching lichen growing on red soil

Miranda Jans@mmejans· 17d

Slime mold, mold and a mushroom #fungifriends

A rotten log with clusters of slime mold (yellow spheres on black thin stalks), a single ochre mushroom cap, and white fuzzy mold covering some of the slime mold structures

Miranda Jans@mmejans· 22d

A very small mushroom next to a fallen coralberry flower (ardisia) #fungifriends

Small, almost translucent, white mushroom growing between lush green moss and next to a purple coral berry flower

Miranda Jans@mmejans· 24d

Wolf’s milk slime mold found near maunawili ditch trail #slimemold

Fruiting bodies of wolf’s milk slime mold - brown round cushions - growing on a log in the forest

Miranda Jans@mmejans· 25d

Bird crimes #birdsky

A common myna running off with a crumb while a pigeon looks on

Miranda Jans@mmejans· 28d

Clusters of Ceratiomyxa slime mold looking like little corals #slimemold

Clusters of white coral shaped or arbuscular slime mold sporangia growing on damp rotting wood

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jul 13

Chocolate tube slime mold with a case of mold? #fungifriends

A cluster of fuzzy brown cigar shaped chocolate tube slimemold on thin silky stalks, partly covered in white fuzz

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jul 10

A frosty bonnet #fungifriends

Small translucent mushroom (Mycena sp) with a lightly striate cap growing out out of forest debris

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jul 9

Splitgill mushrooms! Very excited to meet these #fungifriends

A cluster of three tan splitgill mushrooms seen from below, as to focus on their distinctive gills, growing on a tree.

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jul 7

In the background and blurry you can see what I think is a tiny darkling beetle, more close up in this photo #invertebrates

Two very small round black beetles with red brown spots on their back

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jul 7

Isopod feeding frenzy (very civilized) on a snow ear mushroom #fungifriends

A white translucent snow ear fungus with a lot of grey isopods eating it

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 29

Stemonitis slime mould, not quite yet in its chocolate tube phase. Found these along Aiea loop and am very excited, they’ve been on my wish list for a while! #slimemold

A light pink cluster of stemonitis sporangia growing on tree bark

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 28

A red-shouldered bug, beautiful eyes! #invertebrates

A black-ish bug, with bright red eyes and shoulders, photo a bit blurry as it was running from me

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 26

Cladonia sp lichen growing between mosses #fungifriends

A small cluster of grey-green, branched cladonia pillars growing on forest debris

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 26

Gotta run! #birdsky

Two surf scoters (male and female I believe) taking off from the water (Salish sea)

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 25

Very small mushrooms growing between (and on?) casuarina cones and branchlets #fungifriends

Three tan pleated mushroom caps between brown casuarina cones and needles

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 22

Flowers of the ʻōhiʻa tree #bloomscrolling

Closeup of a cluster of ʻōhiʻa flowers with their bushes of bright red stamens

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 21

Creeping crumble caps galore #fungifriends

A cluster of light grey mushrooms with finely pleated caps growing between mosses

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 19

Dotted angle moth in the rain #invertebrate #moth

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 12

Very porous Pycnoporus mushroom #fungifriends

A bright orange bracket mushroom showing a fine network of pores

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 11

Lichen growing on cactus spines in Koko crater botanical garden #fungifriends

A cluster of sharp cactus spikes, on a green cactus ridge, covered with light grey foliose lichen with dark brown apothecia

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 9

Went to the PNW for the weekend, a lichen heaven! #fungifriends

Two clusters of grey-green fruticose lichen and one patch of foliose lichen growing on a branchlet

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 4

I will never not stop to snap a pic of these fragile beauties #fungifriends

A white slender mushroom with an intricately pleated cap seen from below, with blue sky in the background

Miranda Jans@mmejans· Jun 1

A very good looking snow ear #fungifriends

White translucent ruffled snow ear fungus growing on a brown mottled tree trunk

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 31

Colorful Cladonia lichen along Manana Ridge trail #fungifriends

Several grey Cladonia lichen pillars topped with bright red apothecia growing in between moss and forest debris

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 27

Small lichens (and an ooze) on a plumeria tree #fungifriends

Green and gray foliose lichen partly covering a plumeria tree branch

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 26

Used the long weekend to get reacquainted with my soft pastels. It’s been 20 years! #fungifriends

Soft pastel drawing of a white mushroom with a bent stalk and an annulus

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 25

Immature garden spider #invertebrates #arachnids

Pale small argiope spider in the center of its web, its shadow on the leaf below it

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 23

More slime mold 🩵#slimemold

Damp piece of wood with clusters of translucent white pillar-shaped slime mold

Miranda Jans@mmejans· May 21

Snow ear fungus with a few small #fungifriends

White and translucent fungus growing on forest floor debris, with a small slug and two springtails