Archive | November 2013
Fly agarics on Burnaby Mountain
These beautiful mushrooms were sitting out with a view of Vancouver on the western slope of Burnaby mountain. A friend of mine got a much better picture of them with an iPhone Sony PowerShot last week, but since I was passing, I decided to have a go with what I had.
This species, Amanita muscaria is iconic in appearance and is known as both a hallucinogen and a fly toxin (hence the name). I hope you enjoy these shots!
Weekend Expedition 36: A trip to Victoria and the ESBC meeting
This weekend, we travelled to Victoria to attend the Entomological Society of BC annual meeting. This was pretty convenient, as this is my home town, just a short ferry ride away, and I could stay with my mom. On Friday, folks from my lab joined other (mostly student) presenters to give talks on our work. This was especially fun for me, as Richard Ring, my entomology professor from my undergrad days was in the audience, as was my mom! The talk I gave was a pared-down version of the one I did in Guelph, and it was a little rushed, with 3 major topics to cover. That being said, it was also quite well received.
I did not attend the honeybee symposium they held Saturday, as I had to do some final revisions to a manuscript, but we did end up having an extra morning on Sunday due to some ferry cancellations due to high winds. This was not such a bad thing, as it meant that we could have a Saturday night movie (we went to see “Gravity”), and I could get out in the morning to take some pictures!