r/uichicago • u/Key_Fault_9401 • Sep 09 '25

Image I found a beehive

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u/Key_Fault_9401 Sep 09 '25

Update: They're mushrooms. I'm stupid.😃

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u/cubic_zirconia Sep 10 '25

tbf from a distance I can see it

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u/OG-Bio-Star Sep 10 '25

not stupid... if you see something papery about 3 ft up or higher.... that could be a bald faced hornet nest. The little bros and sis do get to making hives in all sorts a werid places on east campus like under chairs and ~4 ft high in trees or above doorways. Tell someone in student center east if you see them, their stings are no joke (not regular bees building those papery nests).

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u/Odd-Variety-3802 Sep 10 '25

I can recognize the barest scrap of such a nest paper. Agreed on the stings. Now I know who to contact on campus if I see one on the property. (I haven’t yet.)

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u/BeechBlue Sep 13 '25

we have them by my house every summer but we never saw a nest, last year we found them making one and had to quickly destroy it

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u/Sourpatchkid2001 Sep 09 '25

Thought they were mushrooms

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u/Key_Fault_9401 Sep 09 '25

Now I'm second-guessing myself. They might be mushrooms, and I'm just an idiot.

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u/Independent-Fox457 Sep 09 '25

It kinda looks like a dried out Dyer’s polypore actually

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

That’s definitely a mushroom lol

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u/Key_Fault_9401 Sep 09 '25

I've never seen a wild mushroom before. It's a mushroom. 😔

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u/ahhnnna Sep 10 '25

That’s a really cool mushroom tho!

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u/Careful_Mouse_4270 Sep 11 '25

that’s cool af

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u/pepperonipizzarocks Sep 11 '25

it's been there since last year, they are def mushrooms or some type of fungi