300 Photos Categorized "Week 2 – Sources" (page 7 of 10)

Browning leaf on hedge

I found this leaf that was browning on the hedge my neighbor’s house. It looked like it had some fungal infection near the bottom of the stem. Expect…

Water From a Creek

I sampled some water from a very dirty looking creek. I noticed some ducks in and around the water so I was curious if there are fungal spores…

Coconut Fiber from Trixie Mattel’s Enclosure.

I sampled some of the coconut fibre bedding I use for my tarantula. I chose to do this because I once saw some mould growing on a bit…

Air Sample From my Balcony

I am isolating from the air on my balcony. It was a pretty windy day and I figured some spores are probably out and about in the air,…

Soil Sample From a Houseplant

I isolated the soil in my potted houseplant. My plant is looking unhealthy, so I’m curious about what’s in the soil. Perhaps something competing for nutrients with my…

some unappealing looking fish skin from dinner

My family had halibut for dinner, and I normally leave the skin off. I decided to sample the leftover skin to see what would grow. This is clearly…

soil from my jade plant

I chose to isolate try and isolate fungi from soil from a jade plant in my house. I chose to sample this because I wonder how much fungi…

Leaf me alone

I found this yellow/green leaf with dark spots while walking through a park in my neighborhood. The leaf looks unhealthy due to the changes in coloration and dark…

Rotten from head to-ma-toe

This tiny tomato had fallen from my tomato plant in my backyard. The plant had healthy tomatoes growing on it but this one looked very unhealthy. I decided…

murky water on concrete slab

I have a concrete slab in my backyard and it allowed for some murky water to accumulate. I could see a lot of dark green mossy organisms at…

Chives with some trouble

One of the many herbs I grow is chives, and this one sits on my windowsill beneath a grow lamp. They fell over a bit like the picture…

My poor basil

I grow a lot of herbs. This is one of them. This one, unlike the rest of their siblings (just other Thai basil that I planted in different…

Fuzzy Peace Lily

This is a dying leaf from my peace lily plant. It’s covered in white fuzz and it’s not doing so well. The rest of the plant seems relatively…

Dried lavender that’s waaay past its expiration date. (But it looks ok?)

This is a bundle of dried lavender buds that I got as a closing night gift from my director. This was a year and a half ago. She…

Sour Flower

I found this really old and moldy flower in my backyard. The flower is very unhealthy as there are already organisms growing on the stem and the flowers…

My…fridge?

I know. There might not be a ton of fungi here, but I asked a question. If the cold environment of the fridge prevents fungi from growing, then…

Soil From Fallen Tree

During my walk through Burns Bog I came across this fallen tree and I was able to take a soil sample from the dirt around its roots. I…

House Plant

From this plant I have along my kitchen windowsill I took 2 samples. I took a piece from a leaf that was starting to go brown and did…

Unappetizing Apple

These are 3 week old apples I had laying around in my house that I used for a sample. I am curious to see if there is fungus…

Compost Bin from the Black Swamp

I decided to swab the inside of my compost bin, because sometimes I see mold growing in there if I don’t wash it for too long (and it…

Stagnant Water

For my next sample I took some water out of this stagnant puddle I found in Burns Bog. It definitely did not look very clean and had a…

Leaf From Burns Bog

For my first sample I collected a leaf from this plant I found in Burns Bog. The leaf that I took definitely did not look very healthy especially…

Wood shavings from Guinea Pig cage (feat. Toffee)

Don’t be fooled by that cute muzzle, this Guinea pig is one of the messiest animals you’ll ever meet. Considering how messy my Guinea pigs are, I thought…

Scott Creek River (feat. my Chocolate Lab)

I really wanted to try growing mold from a water sample and thought that the Scott Creek river water would be interesting to test. I’m uncertain about how…

Sick lemon in need of lemonaid

I found this old lemon in the back of my fridge and decided to sample the tissue since it had dark spots. I sampled the dark spots as…

My gross windowsill

This is my bedroom windowsill that appears to have some black mold? This appears almost every seasonal change. I wanted to see if this really is some kind…

Weird spotted iceberg lettuce

This is an iceberg lettuce head that has been sitting in my fridge. I wanted to see if there was any fungal growth on lettuce since there was…

My gross bathroom ceiling

This is the ceiling of our bathroom that gets cleaned once a year since we often have some mold or bacteria growing constantly throughout the year. It hasn’t…

My kitchen ledge in front of my sink

This is my kitchen window area located right in front of my sink. We open and prep lots of food, clean our dishes, and it is also near…

Creek near my house

This is a creek near my house that is also near a local elementary school. Theres plenty of different plant life and i am suspecting fungi as well….