New Camera

 
This year the Winter White-tailed Eagle Feeding Ground Camera starts a little later than in previous years. The camera was installed on December 8, with the assistance of Tiit and Joosep, but we only managed to get the sound in working order in the new year, with the help of Beta Group.

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Mushroom Week diary, part 3

Text and photos: Urmas Tartes
Translation: Liis
 
Red fly agaric
 
Wednesday, September 09, 2010
 

It is impossible to just pass by the red fly agarics. They simply stop you in your tracks with their looks. One of the most attractive of cap fungi: good that they are poisonous; so all the white-dotted red hats are left there to decorate the forest.

 
Rove beetle
 
All the more interesting then to find animals who make little of filling their stomachs with fly agaric. I managed to get my  camera near enough to the gills of an old, slumped down agaric. Tens of little insects were scurrying around there – tiny rove beetles. All were gorging themselves on the fly agaric gills. Insects may do what humans may not!
 
Chanterelle
 
Interesting that the agarics are fewer in the Rõuge forests than last year. But there are plenty of boletuses (ceps) instead, and - especially for all mushroom gourmands – chanterelles.

The number of species brought to the exhibition is nearing 200, and there are more than ten species in my photos.

 


 

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