Photo Guides:
Mushrooms Spiders Flies
Photography by Pilar Morera & Betty Yan
Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
May 2025
Mushroom Slime Mold Photo Guide
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Dog vomit slime mold
Fuligo septica
Red raspberry slime mold
Tubifera ferruginosa
Dead man’s fingers
Xylaria polymorpha
Dryad’s saddle
Cerioporus squamosus
Witch’s butter
Tremella mesenterica
Velvet foot Flammulina velutipes
Vinegar cup Helvella acetabulum
Wolf’s milk slime mold
Lycogala epidendrum
by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
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Layered cup
Peziza varia
Scarlet cup Sarcoscypha coccinea
Cup fungus Paragalactinia
Mica cap Coprinellus micaceus
Pleated inkcap Parasola plicatilis
Scaly inkcap Copriopsis variegata
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Rough-speckled shield lichen
Punctelia rudecta
Yellow fieldcap Bolbitius titubans
Pale brittlestem
Candolleomyces candolleanus
Mottlegills Panaeolus
Shaggy mane Coprinus comatus
White morel Morchella americana
clitocybe
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Curtis’s puffball
Lycoperdon curtisii
False puffball
Reticularia lycoperdon
Reddening lepiota Leucoagaricus americanus
Clustered
Lepista subconnexa
Jelly tree ear
Auricularia americana
American amber jelly fungus
Exidia crenata
White jelly fungus
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Blushing rosette Abortiporus biennis
Dung-loving bird’s nest fungus Cyathus stercoreus
Funeral bell Galerina marginata
Northern tooth Climacodon septentrionalis
Orange faint foot mushroom
Heimiomyces tenuipes
Ruby bolete Hortiboletus rubellus
Splitgill mushroom Schizoophyllum commune
Stubble rosegill Volvopluteus gloiocephalus
White maze polypore Trametes aesculi
Zoned hairy parachute Crinipellis zonata
Mustard yellow polypore Fuscoporia gilva
Deer-colored trametes Trametopsis cervina
Turket-tail Trametes versicolor
Chicken fat mushroom Suillus americanus
Walnut mycena Mycena crocea
Chip cherries Leratiomyces ceres
False turkey tail Stereum lobatum
Rededge brittlestem Psathyrella corrugis
Spider Photo Guide
by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
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American nursery web spider Pisaurina mira
White micrathena Micrathena mitrata
Spined micrathena Micrathena gracilis
Yellow garden spider Argiope aurantia
Eastern harvestman Leiobunum vittatum
Red Velvet mite Trombidium
Wetland giant wolf spider Tigrosa helluo
Nature Preserve Spider Photo Guide
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Thin-legged wolf spider Pardosa
Lance wolf spider Schizocosa avida
Drumming Sword wolf spider Gladicosa gulosa
Dimorphic jumping spider (tufted) Maevia inclemens
Common white-cheeked jumping spider Pelegrina proterva
Peppered jumping spider Pelegrina galathea
Sylvan jumping spider Colonus sylvanus
Tan jumping spider Platycryptus undatus
Tamarack Nature Preserve Spider Photo Guide
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Red-femured spotted orbweaver Neoscona domiciliorum
Orchard orbweaver Leucauge venusta
Arrowhead orbweaver Verrucosa arenata
Black-tailed red sheetweaver Florinda coccinea
Meshweaver Dictynidae
Golden jumping spider Paraphidippus aurantius
Tuff-legged orbweaver Mangora placida
White-jawed jumping spider Hentzia mitrata
Western lynx spider Oxyopes scalaris
Warty harvestman Leiobunum verrucosum
Tuberculated crab spider Tmarus angulatus
Spotted orbweaver Neoscona crucifera
Fly Photo Guide
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Black horse fly Tabanus atratus
Calyptrate fly Calyptratae
Predatory snipe fly
Chrysopilus
Cluster fly Pollenia
Clubbed mydas fly Mydas clavatus
Common eastern physocephala Physocephala tibialis
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Eastern calligraphers Toxomerus geminatus
Eastern hornet fly Spilomyia longicornis
Golden dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria
Greater bee fly Bombylius major
House fly Muscidae
Minettia fly Minettia
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Oblique streaktail Allograpta obliqua
Yellow-haired falsehorn (male) Temnostoma balyras
Robber fly Cerotainia
Gnat ogres (Robber fly) Holcocephala
Robber fly
Promachus hinei
Swift feather-legged fly
Trichopoda pennipes
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Long-legged fly
Complex Condylostylus comatus
Tachinid fly
Cylindromyia
Complex
Long-legged fly
Complex Condylostylus sipho
Long-legged fly
Robber fly
Laphria canis
Dolichopus
Marsh fly
Euthycera flavescens
Ornate Snipe fly Chrysopilus ornatus
Down-looker
Snipe fly Rhagio hirtus
Snail-killing fly Sepedon
Stilt-legged fly Taeniaptera trivittata
Black onion fly Tritoxa flexa
Ferruginous tiger crane fly (female) Nephrotoma ferruginea
Ferruginous tiger crane fly (male) Nephrotoma ferruginea
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Stilt-legged fly
Ensign fly
Signal fly
Picture-winged fly
Rainieria antennaepes
Rivellia
Sepsis
Tritoxa incurva
Large crane fly Tipula yamatotipula
Water striders Rhagovelia distincta
Black-horned
Chrysopa nigricornis
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Netspinning caddisfly Hydropsyche
Common water strider Aquarius remigis
Dark cahill mayfly Stenonema femoratum
Scorpion fly Panorpa insolens
Fruit fly Euleia fratria
Brown lacewing Micromus posticus
Stylogaster neglecta
Narrow-headed marsh fly Helophilus fasciatus
Aster bee fly Sparnopolius confusus
Giant crane fly Tipula abdominalis