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Some rainy days and over night temperatures in the low tens - started to feel like October.  The weather is perfect for Blewits and they are around with some slug damage, but bug infestation is minimal. This is a great time to enjoy fresh Blewits (cooked, of course). With some patience you can collect enough for drying or pickling. As October progresses there is more and more fallen leafs in deciduous wood, making it hard to spot even bright colored mushrooms. At this time I tend to concentrate mainly on the coniferous woods.   From now on the Tricholomas take over and show up in great fairy rings. Rings in coniferous woods are easily visible and quite impressive, but hard to catch in the photography. The most common one in this area is probably Tricholoma virgatum. I am not interested too much in Genus Tricholoma although some highly sought mushroom are found in it (e.g. Tricholoma magnivelare ). The grey Tricholomas are yet to show up. Various Suillus species are quite abundant...

Seems like I dismissed warm weather a little too early. Today expected daily high is 27°C! The forecast is still factoring in humidex! In the woods the fall change is well under way. I guess trees are reacting to calendar as much as couple of cold nights. The colors are amazing. All the shades of green, yellow, brown and red are present. On the floor of the woods big flourish of Honey Mushrooms has passed. There are still some around but big clumps are gone. At this time they are frequently infested by bugs. I found numerous traces of heavy harvesting. Blewits are showing in numbers. As usual they are forming partial or full fairy rings. Due to worm weather some of them are still buggy. This is excellent edible, definitely one of my favorites. Blewit color can vary greatly and it is not recommended for the beginners. For me the odor is one of the main characteristics for recognition. [caption id="attachment_3115" align="alignnone" width="663"] Clitocybe n...