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Mushrooms and Toadstool, must be Fall
If you had not noticed, summer is over and it is getting colder and wetter. To paraphrase Julius Caesar: guttula iacta est. Or to put it in plain English: the droplet has been thrown. We can no longer go back and will have to see this fallthrough. So, to help you through this perilous time,…
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Slow worm
Anguis fragilis, Hazelworm, Blindschleiche, Orvet, Lucion Intro An animal that is neither a worm, nor a snake, yet is called one and often confused with the other. Why is it neither a worm, nor a snake? Because it is a lizard. Unlike worms, it has a spine, and unlike snakes, it has eyelids. This beautiful…
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Fly Agaric
Amanita muscaria, Vliegenzwam, Amanite tue-mouches (fausse oronge), Fliegenpilz, matamoscas (falsa oronja) Intro The fly agaric, the mushroom carrying the responsibility to be the face of fungi. The most commonly depicted mushroom when asked what a fungus looks like. Fortunately, fungi don’t care who’s the most popular or prettiest among them, because we all know this…
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Smooth Snake
Coronella austriaca, gladde slang, culebra lisa europea, coronelle lisse, schlingnatter A snake so smooth it could slide right through your DMs. That would be shame and great loss, because if you get to know them, you’d realize just how cute and interesting they are. Called smooth in about every language in Europe, except for German…