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At the rate we’re going, we’ll have to combine this thread with the “red” thread and add “brown” to the title.
Earlier this month, I found this massive fungus:
Laetiporus cincinnatus – I hadn’t expected there to be an organism named after Cincinnati, Ohio.
I obscured my nearby observations that day because I didn’t want it to be foraged. Yesterday I went to the spot again and all that was left was an ochre-colored blotch; you could almost think something threw up there.
One of my favorites!
cincinnatus means curly-haired, and if you squint, it could be considered an apt name for this mushroom (also maybe some of the structures of the fungus inside might be curly).
Cincinnatus was also a cognomen (like a nickname, but serious) of a renown Roman statesman, after which Cincinnati was named (Cincinnati basically just means members of the Cincinatus family).
I do not think this fungus was named directly after Cincinnati (for that, a suffix would need to be added, like cincinnatese or cincinatorum); but they are derived from the same word
Orange Lepidoptera 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293099909
Classic beautiful fritillary!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292514109
This moth is hiding their yellow orange on hindwing
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293050083
Does she enjoy her oleaster?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292514143
Red-orange moth
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293099751
We can’t discuss an orange without Commas
