Both male and female were submerged
Medium-sized sweat bee (approximately18 mm long) that landed on me and persisted to walk around over my arm.
Young oak, approximately 1.125 meters tall, growing on top of a low ridge separating two watersheds..
These plants covered the side of a small stream near the site of a former horticulture operation for a local garden supply business.
The adjacent Golden Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) inaturalist.org/observations/198242880
For the Brick Cap (Hypholoma lateritium), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/198243010
Not quite sure what this is. It's kinda fuzzy or velvety and fairly solid but still spongy. It didn't bruise and had soft white flesh. Growing out of the roots of a sassafras tree. The first 2 pics are from 3 days ago and the rest today.
A weird time of year for any of the yellow Pluteus mushrooms to fruit. Normally you'd see any of these in the fall to winter. The North American species are not very tolerant of heat. I know this species but can't think of it's name off the top of my head, I'll go back and update this when I'm not so tired