The Urban Pantheist discovers specimens of the dreaded terrestrial flatworms along the Muddy River. Now he awaits word from experts at Harvard as to whether Boston is cold enough to keep these predatory worms from Asia from decimating the local ecosystem (by gorging on earthworms), as they are now doing in Ireland:
The Urban Pantheist discovers some stinky squid fungus near Ward's Pond:
... Like all stinkhorns, stinky squid is a striking mushroom, as unusual to look at as it is unpleasant to smell. Carrion-eating insects are attracted to the foetid odor produced by the slimy gray-green spore mass. The tentacle-like fronds presumably help increase the available surface area to the flies and beetles that spread the spores. ...
The Urban Pantheist walks around the pond, takes photos proving spring is here
The Urban Pantheist shows there's a lot to see if you take the time to look.
The Urban Pantheist surveys the mushrooms of the Riverway:
... This week we've seen mycorrhyzal mushrooms from the Amanita, Bolete, Lactarius and Russula groups appear. Many of them are colorful and beautiful. ...
Click on the link to learn what "mycorrhyzal" means and why that sort of mushroom is normally so rare in the city.
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