#Forest floor

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[julianplum]

🍄 🍁 🐌 🐜 🪳✨ // Omphalotus illudens, the bioluminescent jack o' lantern mushroom // gouache on paper

[mollybeenoel]

Tiny mushrooms photographed by Max Mudie

[tofreezetime]

mysterious paths

I don't know where they are

[feet-of-clay]

Another day of light rain and the moss looks so happy

[myxomycota]

Physarum cinereum by Alison Pollack

[michaelnordeman]

Peaceful forest. Värmland, Sweden (July 22, 2021).

[pickleweed2]

Intricate cascading roots on a Western Hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla.

Olympic National Park| 11-30-2023

credit: @pickleweed2 / IG: @cxlman

[jenfoundabug]

California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) in a redwood forest. Santa Cruz Mountains, California, US

[orofeaiel]

Bonnet & Moss

[riverwindphotography]

Woodland Jewels

(c) riverwindphotography

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Calluna vulgaris

[amnhnyc]

Today’s Exhibit of the Day? 🐛🐞🐜 The Museum’s Life on the Forest Floor Diorama. To create this up-close look—full of decomposing debris and hungry critters—Museum artists studied specimens under a microscope. Then, these bugs, weevils, and beetles were enlarged to about 24 times their actual size! Models were made out of clay, wax, and other materials. This archival image, snapped in 1958, depicts a Museum preparator installing models into this scene. 

Photo: Image no. 325494 / © AMNH Library 

[mollybeenoel]

Hydnellum Peckii (also known as Strawberries and Cream, Devil’s Tooth, Bleeding Tooth Fungus), photographed by Kevin Moldenhauer

[tofreezetime]

a place made of thoughts

[feet-of-clay]

A spot of sunlight deep in the rainforest