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amanita muscaria, not just for waste cases any more 2003-02-14 - 6:12 p.m. I just observed a squirrel chow down on an Amanita muscaria. This is a beautiful species, with a red cap flecked with white spots, and I was hoping that it would grow large enough to photograph before being consumed by a greedy squirrel, thank you very much. This is not the mushroom for which St. Tammany Parish is famous* and, in fact, I doubt that there are human consumers of this species within several thousand miles, since I'm told that the best method for processing it is to allow someone else to eat it first and then to drink that person's urine. (No, I'm not making this up. Apparently, tribes in Siberia where the finer herbs, mushrooms, and brews are scarce actually perform such a ceremony, with the rich people drinking the piss of the poor because it provides a "less noisy" high.) Although Amanita species are supposed to vary from moderately to extremely poisonous for humans, the squirrel in question seems delighted and is now running around digging in search for more. No wonder they never leave my yard. They've got the squirrel food groups here -- peanut butter, lard, chicken fat, suet, nuts, and hallucinogens. It was a beautiful spring day with a fresh Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly enjoying the pansies, but I was frustrated with the unusually low numbers of species in my yard today. I wanted to take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count but I had an embarrassing lack of species today. Is this pitiful or what? Killdeer Mourning Dove Eurasian Collared Dove American Crow Carolina Wren Northern Mockingbird Yellow-Rumped Warbler -- 2 Northern Cardinal White-Throated Sparrow -- 3 Redwing Blackbird -- 8 I can't believe I missed regulars like Carolina Chickadee, the female Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, and Brown Thrasher. In honor of St. Valentine, I've baked a Coconut Pie, dyed pink thanks to a strategic dash of McCormack's Red Dye Number 2. I'm now roasting a pair of stuffed Cornish Hens. Druggie squirrels or no, it looks to be a pleasant evening indeed. *Stropharia cubensis, in past years also known as "the only reason for Orleans Parish residents to cross the Causeway." I suspect the species is disappearing from the Parish, as the rural cow pastures are being replaced by gas stations and McMansions. There isn't any "save our 'shrooms" movement, though. Last time I checked, photographs of S. cubensis were still razored out of mushroom ID books in the local library. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford