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Flowering in parking lot at trailhead

Who built this?

so may of these dirt trails along the trail, plus dozens of small holes that opened up onto the trail.

The sparse branching pattern with short tapered branches off the main stem suggests poison oak to me. A cut stem makes sap which turns black over a weeks time.

Growing in a roughly 60yr old apple tree.

Swarming ants, Carpenter Mountain fire lookout, HJ Andrews Forest, Willamette National Forest, Oregon

Sleeping roost of Western Yellowjackets on wildflower in main meadow, Carpenter Mountain, HJ Andrews Forest, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, USA

Carpenter Mountain trail, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, USA. West Cascades ecoregion. mixed conifer forest. 4500 ft.

Carpenter Mountain fire lookout, HJ Andrews Forest, Willamette NF, Oregon. mixed conifer forest. West Cascades ecoregion. 5400 ft.

Why is it blackened?

Honestly no idea what this is.Just found it on the ground in a forest area.

These are not all the same beetle in the pictures. I heard them flying on the base of the house, and got a flashlight and camera. :-)

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Infecting damaged Reynoutria japonica (Japanese Knotweed).

This is an undescribed species found in hot valleys of BC's southern interior. Recorded indoors at 25 C

Looks like a little tree! :-)

Weird mutation. Also I did not mangle the stem, that was how I found it!

Source: 11/01/23

Thorns are nearly straight and not recurved toward base of plant as in Armenian blackberry.

Growing on dead alder logs. All are fairly small, up to about 3 1/2" across.

Transclucent slightly pointed leaves. Growing as a carpet on an abandoned dirt road in a damp cedar/alder/fir woodland.