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Edible Mushroom Hunters/Gatherers...

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CaliGabe

Man, I was covered in ticks 3 normal sized and at least 20 seed ticks.
If I go out again I'm wearing boots, pant legs tucked in, and taped.
I will be wearing a long sleeved shirt, taped also. I wear a hat any way.

That spur of the moment shit was NOT worth the few I found, but now I know they're about ready.

Peace; 1TT
Ouch! NO mushroom worth dealing with ticks IMO.
 

dickcorn

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Probably found at least 5# last few days. Everything from baby grays just popping to large drying out yellows. Gonna be an awesome week here.
You should be rolling in them now twisted trucker.
I did just pull my first partially embedded tick off me too, small Lyme disease looking bastard too. Arrrggh!! My friend got Lyme last year and couldn't work for like 3 months!
 

1TWISTEDTRUCKER

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I drove right on by the marsh where I found them, yesterday.
Shit now I gotta go brave the Lymey little Bastards.

Man I wish We grew Magic mushies round here.
My little Bro in law is from around Eugene Or. and has found Magic Schrooms in mulch at a Mc Donalds.

I need to get a good book on wild mushrooms. My Grandpaw used to bring home a couple of tree mushrooms, but He's been gone 30yrs now. I sure wish I had paid a lot closer attention when I was a Kid.

Peace; 1TT
 

dickcorn

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My buddy used to pick magics off his horse compost pile before I was into them, but he said there not very strong. I never looked myself. Looked up tick that was on me and it was definatly a deer tick. More then a little worried now.
 

Gry

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Man, reading this is so neat .Used to love to do mushrooms of all sorts when I was younger. Now just buy the grocery store type. Love the fact the dollar store sells them. I have portabellos in almost everything I eat . Not the same as going out and finding them at all I know but still nice to have them. Living in the middle the SFV and not much woodlands around here, but I can't help notice the wild offerings when ever the the rains leave things a bit damp.
Twisted Trucker , the pictures look great. The swamp sounds pretty swift. Can recall back when ticks were not something to worry about so much . What was it that changed so much I wonder, I suppose that would be easy enough to look up sometime.
 

1TWISTEDTRUCKER

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This is what I did with them
The omlettes were DAM good but I should have just fried um up and ate them all Myself. Maybe its My generous Soul that's kept The Wife around for 27yrs.

Peace; 1TT
 

Classic Seeds

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hi if your worried about a tck bite containing lymes disease ,usually if it does have lymes you get a bulls eye of red slight swelling around bite area it can be from the size of a dime to couple inches and if its your first infection you will get a classic bulls eye with one ring a little farther out around the bite area ring .this is what my doctor told me to watch for .wish I had of known this a long time ago when I got a bulls eye tick marking from a bite had to go on iv antibiotics to rid myself of the symtoms .deet is supposed to keep them off but the problem is half the ticks drop from brush and trees and you can not spray every square inch of your body or clothes aloha cls
 

1TWISTEDTRUCKER

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Deet makes Me nauseous as hell, I cant use it at all. Citronella does the same thing, and it sux ass to cause mosquito bites and tick bites cause a histamine reaction for Me. I look like I've been bee stung from mosquito bites. Fragrances do the same thing to Me guess its all chemical sensitivity.

Peace; 1TT
 

lr3

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[URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=53383&pictureid=1245583&thumb=1]View Image[/url] [URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=53383&pictureid=1245580&thumb=1]View Image[/url] [URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=53383&pictureid=1245579&thumb=1]View Image[/url] [URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=53383&pictureid=1245578&thumb=1]View Image[/url] [URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=53383&pictureid=1245577&thumb=1]View Image[/url] Here are a few I found today. just stopped at a marsh near home, on the spur of the moment. I think tomorrow will be even better.
I am in southern Iowa.

I have never found a morel B4, so I'm stoked. I have eaten lots, but all ways had to rely on someone hooking me up.

I aint got no job, so I can hunt every day till there gone. I found these 3 miles from the house.

I'm going to have to get the Wifes good camera out, and get some nice macro's too.

Peace; 1TT

i sure miss the spring in the midwest and morel hunting! in socal we get too little rain to find many mushrooms. mostly inky caps, though have found some chicken of the woods, and some shelf fungi (ganoderma & fomentarius) around.

when i lived in northern georgia, i would go out and collect 3-4 grocery bags full of golden chanterelles (in an hour or less, just picking the best ones). the awareness of edibles out there is pretty low, most people there have no idea what a chanterelle is! was great for me. that and some ps weilii and ps atlantis grew in my neighborhood.
 

lr3

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hi if your worried about a tck bite containing lymes disease

tick weird me out--they are programmed to go to the tip of a blade of grass--then they go into suspended animation and shut down their metabolism only to spring into action when you walk by and brush against the grass. they can go months without eating--just sitting there, waiting for their next victim.
 

lr3

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those chanterelles that i found in north georgia tended to be in the middle of poison ivy patches... at least it wasn't ticks. i can wipe with a paper towel soaked with acetone to get the poison ivy oils off before i have a reaction.
 

1TWISTEDTRUCKER

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I used to be EXTEEMLY allergic to poison ivy, I had it so bad in 6th grad that the Doctors at the hospital in Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. Army base took rolls of pictures They took to show the worst case of it They ever encountered. being an Army Hospital, it is a teaching Hosp., so I had like 6-7 students gaulking at Me I looked like a burn victim all over My body. I had to soak My eyes open it the mornings it was HELL on earth for a week. I have not had it in several years now,, thank God.

Peace; 1TT
 

armedoldhippy

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in middle of spring drought here, no rain, no morels. dammit... local lake is eleven feet below where it was this time last year.
 
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PermaBuzz

The season in SE MI was behind this year but looks like its finally here according to the online reports. I have looked a ton and havent found a single morel. All Ive found so far are dryads saddle and false morels.

Dead elms are the ticket but I dont seem to notice very many of them. Not suprising since dutch elm disease has killed most of them off years ago. Same for the ash and emerald borer disease. Poplar/aspen - another host tree - are very common but zilch there too. Always seem to end up in oak forests but morels dont grow in oak forests.

No ticks yet. I have encountered ticks in MI before but never in the first ring of suburban metro parks around detroit. Ticks in MI dont seem nearly as common as they are in other states like missouri or illinois. Still, they give me the heeby jeebys and I'm gonna try a new spray that is supposedly better than DEET called permethrin.

Damn, this endless searching for morels is starting to feel like my other endless search for haze keepers.
 

stasis

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Game on..! Found a huge but old Morel in my yard - rushed out to a park that I Had my eye on, and slogged thru tons of water to find nothing..!!

Ever elusive. Gotta go Up north - last year, while largely bereft of Morels due to freezing weather and snow on Mem Day, was really fun to seek em. Northern MI is wonderful.

Good Luck..>!!
 

armedoldhippy

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found a few...
 

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