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Jill🌻@jillsunflower.bsky.social · 4w ago

Michigan plant lovers rejoice! The Michigan Flora app has been released! news.umich.edu/new-plant-id...

New plant identification app available, powered by U-M Herbarium

Biologists and plant enthusiasts now have the power of Michigan's most complete plant identification guide in the palm of their hands.

news.umich.edu

Tiny little mush pals 🍄‍🟫 #fungiFriends

A cluster of tiny orange-ish mushrooms on the forest floor, with trees in the background

Boardwalks are my weakness

A winding boardwalk traverses a hemlock forest.

I am SO excited that one of my meetings tomorrow is NOT a Zoom! Even better? It's a walking meeting!

Delighted to find some of @partridgecg.bsky.social's Hemlock Wooly Adelgid traps while on an evening hike in Leelanau County! Kudos on the QR codes! www.partridgelabs.com/hwa

A small blue disk on a post in a hemlock forest.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams@msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is it, Michiganders! Six days left to report your aquatic invasive species to us! (Even if you're not sure if it's an invasive species - post it and we'll tell you!)

61 contributors have posted 108 observations of aquatic invasive species across Michigan so far. The MiCorps AIS Detection Blitz runs through July 12, so you still have 6 days to send us your finds! Help us better understand the extent of these invasive species. www.inaturalist.org/projects/202...

An image of a person holding Eurasian watermilfoil in front of a map of Michigan. This promotion for the MiCorps AIS Detection Blitz states, "Six Days left to help map Michigan's invasive species! 108 verified AIS observations so far. 6 days left! Check caption for current stats!"

We all need some down time. Hope you, like me, found some this weekend. Ahh.

Feet up on a rope hammack in the shade with a book.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams@msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · last mo.

I posted my first observation yesterday - Narrow-leaved Cattail in Escanaba. If you're in Michigan, please join this effort - it's fun and it's for science! www.micorps.net/events/aisbl...

📣It's happening! Now through July 12, we invite everyone in Michigan to report suspected Aquatic Invasive Species to iNaturalist. Help us better understand invasions! It's easy - sign up for the 2026 MiCorps Aquatic Invasive Species Detection Blitz on iNat, and go! www.micorps.net/events/aisbl...

Ad for the MiCorps AIS Detection Blitz showing photos of various invasive species in Michigan. June 29-July 12 2026. Help track aquatic invasive species across Michigan - your observations make a difference!

Have you ever been invited by an organization to give a science outreach program, prepared your content and showed up, then all the attendees sat around and talked, your host never started the program, and then after 2 hours, everyone left? That happened to me today. I am utterly confused.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams@msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · last mo.

I'll be there... will you? We'll be talking all things volunteer monitoring, taking advantage of our west Michigan location to share ideas and explore opportunities for lake and stream stewardship in our state. Make plans to join us!

Save the date! The 2026 MiCorps Volunteer Lake and Stream Monitoring Conference will be held on November 6 in Muskegon. An optional pre-conference stream monitoring workshop will also be offered. www.micorps.net

Hot take from me, who manages websites: If the site has obviously been redesigned, and you can't find something that used to be there, try reaching out and asking where to find it, before starting a rant about how we're hiding information "paid for with public dollars". It was there all along.

Here's a very very small turtle I found. How grumpy!

A person points to a very small turtle on a boardwalk.

A small turtle on a boardwalk looking grumpy.

Here is a very very very small frog I found.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams@msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just look at that can design! Celebrate our coldwater fisheries and invasive species awareness next weekend, June 6, with our Clean Boats, Clean Waters team!

Brewing awareness for Michigan waters and invasive species! MI Clean Boats, Clean Waters, Trail Point Brewing Co. set to host “Aquatic Ales” event focused on preventing aquatic invasive species in our waters. Join us June 6 in Allendale to try "Coldwater Revival"! www.canr.msu.edu/news/brewing...

Trail Point Brewing Co. and MSU Extension's Clean Boats, Clean Waters present "Coldwater Revival," a juicy IPA featuring tips on protecting our waters from invasive species.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams@msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Kudos to the State of Michigan for taking this important step in protecting our waters from these known invasive plants. The ecological risks of allowing their possession and sale are simply too great.

Michigan is adding water hyacinth and water lettuce to the state list of Prohibited Invasive Species. Get to know these plants and how to report them! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MID...

Side-by-side infographic of two invasive aquatic plants. Left: water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) with purple flower clusters, round waxy leaves held above water by swollen stems, and dangling roots. Right: water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), a free-floating plant with fuzzy, ridged leaves and long roots, producing new plants on horizontal runners. Both labeled “Invasive,” with a prompt to report sightings to EGLE.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams @msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(1/n) May is American Wetlands Month, and Michigan has a lot to celebrate. Our state supports an incredible diversity of wetlands, including marshes, bogs, fens, wet meadows, conifer swamps, deciduous swamps, and more.

The USGS Water Science School page lists "Growth of Aquatic Plants" under "Common Environmental Problems" of lakes. Hmph. I bet they don't list "Growth of Trees" as a common environmental problem of forests. Can we please appreciate aquatic plants? www.usgs.gov/water-scienc... #MacrophyteMonday

Lakes and Reservoirs

A lake really is just another component of Earth's surface water. A lake is where surface-water runoff and groundwater seepage have accumulated in a low spot, relative to the surrounding countryside.

usgs.gov

Word from home is that my youngest cat misses me while I'm away at a conference. So, apparently, my husband built a substitute me out of pillows and blankets where I usually sit in the evening. He sent this photo to show that she's now settling in for the night.

A small black cat sits atop a pile of pillows and blankets on a gray sofa.

I'll be presenting at #ASLOSIL26 on Thursday: Michigan's Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program: Lessons learned over 50 years of community science for research and conservation. Join us for an excellent session (SS079A) on emerging directions in community-based work! www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Aerial image of a green forested shoreline meeting blue, swirling lake water. Logos for the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and the International Society of Limnology (SIL) appear at the top. Large text reads, “I’m Presenting.” Additional text announces a presentation titled “Michigan’s Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program: Lessons learned over 50 years of community science for research and conservation,” scheduled for Thursday at 2:30 PM. Bottom text promotes the ASLO–SIL Joint Meeting, “Aquatic Confluence: Science, People, Knowledge,” held May 12–16, 2026, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.