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I work with fungi in the Pacific Northwest of the US, here are some of mine:

Danny’s DNA Discoveries, https://www.alpental.com/psms/ddd/index.htm constantly updated, heavy on sequencing

Mykoweb, California centric, https://mykoweb.com/CAF/index.html still useful for West coast, updates infrequent

MushroomExpert, https://www.mushroomexpert.com/ More of a North American focus. Note distribution.

North American Cortinarius Collections, https://nacorts.com/ a good, evolving site for Cortinarius

Mushroom Appreciation, https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/ casual style, still technical. I enjoy the descriptions and comparisons.

Articles:

Fungal Systematics and Evolution https://fuse-journal.org/

Also see General below.

Books:

Mushrooms of Cascadia, Seigel and Schwarz

Mushrooms of Cascadia, Beug

Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, Trudell and Ammirati

Ascomycete Fungi of North America, Beug

Phaeocollybia of the Pacific Northwest North America, Norvell and Exeter, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255719436_Phaeocollybia_of_Pacific_Northwest_North_America

Ramaria of the Pacific Northwest North America, Exeter, Norvell and Cazares, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255719422_Ramaria_of_the_Pacific_Northwest

Handbook to Strategy 1 Fungal Species in the Pacific Northwest Forest Plan, Castellano et. al. https://www.fs.usda.gov/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr476.pdf

Handbook to Additional Fungal Species of Special Concern in the Northwest Forest Plan, Castellano et. al. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r6/reo/survey-and-manage/downloads/fungi/handbook-fu-pnwgtr572-2003.pdf

Ecology and Management of Commercially Harvested Chanterelle Mushrooms, Pilz et. al. https://www.fs.usda.gov/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr576.pdf

General:

Pubmed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ create an account, set up your taxa and receive notice of new papers

Stork, https://www.storkapp.me/ create an account, set up your taxa and receive notice of new papers

Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/ create an account, set up your taxa and receive notice of new papers

The Forest Service has thousands of publications many of which are on specific taxa. Search on your taxon and see what pops up https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch

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https://www.knowyourinsects.org - for broad levels of understanding orders and families at a single place to know insects

https://www.jumping-spiders.com - publication photo/drawings of salticid spiders in single place.

https://www.idscaro.net/sci/01_coll/index.htm and https://malacopics.nl/ - great photos of shells

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Please consider adding Oregon Flora OregonFlora Home to your extensive list

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Russulales (Fungi) https://www2.muse.it/russulales-news/id_introduction.asp

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For anyone who might want to tackle invertebrate observations with an annotation of life stage=egg, there is a very helpful series of journal posts by @treegrow in this project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/eggs-egg-coverings-of-terrestrial-invertebrates (including a collection of things misidentified as eggs)

(I keep thinking I need to put together a similar guide for hymenopteran nests, but as so often, there are so many things I could be doing and only so many hours in the day.)

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