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jchanders — Where did the redheads go?
Published: 2008-10-10 04:41:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1043; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 65
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Fly Agarics are an ever so beautiful species of mushroom. So I love to search for them each autumn. But this year I have not found one of them in the usual places. So I must admit I am a bit bewildered. They are not the sort of mushroom that are picked by mushrooms searchers, so what has happened?In order not to lose track of them altogether, I dug up and old shot and recropped it a bit.
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This so beautiful work I have been featured in my newest journal. [link]
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So many thanks, even if very late.
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omg that is the coolest looking mushroom i have ever seen!!!!!
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you are a very good photographer. this mushroom is so lovely. keep up the great work. i took photos of morels up north last summer.karen r.
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Many thanks. Great you looked so far back into the gallery.
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How nice of you to have featured it. So many thanks so many years later! Indeed it is still a lovely picture.
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Oh, wow, that's a beautiful one! I love mushrooms!
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Beautiful! It's just like the mushrooms you see in fantasy paintings of pixies and nymphs. Very Nice!
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That is the most stunning red. Beautiful
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I love those too 
They used to be fairly rare, but now they're more common, luckily. Nice shot.
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I wonder if they are yet another victim of what we've done to the environment...
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Shaman's Bridge. They've been used for millennia by shaman, to journey between the worlds. Nowadays, folks are using them for that purpose, but with damaging results.
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Me neither: this year I have not found "amanita muscaria" in the woods of my Dolomites!!
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I just found one of the best ones I ever saw, I dont know where they are all gone but I know something eats them fast !!!!
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So appealing and mouthwatering! Invisible pixies dancing around it. ; ) ) )
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Makes me feel to some cartoons . Very beautiful and well-done !! 
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as far as i know, these mushrooms have been steadely decreasing in numbers in the netherlands for years and years now.
Also, they may not be the type of shrooms that are picked by people who pick mushrooms for use in food or whatnot, but a casual visitor of the forest with an enthusiasm for nature equal to his/her ignorance of red list species (e.g. most) can have disasterous effects on the local mushrooms. especially when they bring the kids along.
Last but not least, i'm starting to hear more and more stories of people using them for their hallucinogenic qualities.
It's a shame really, they are truly gems of the forest.
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Many thanks for your explanation. That does make a lot of sense. But I agree, it is a real shame.
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good old amanita muscaria is hiding!
weather too dry? not enough moisture?
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Global warming is killing off so much beautiful Nature. Sometimes, I want to find the switch and flip it, turning man back into a natural, non-technological creature. Life may have been much shorter, but it was much richer.
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Wow, that sure is a beaut! It looks like it needs a little pixie on top of it.
Good luck with your search!
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