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| A small ant climbs on a mushroom growing on a rotting tree stump on a hillside near Elkton, Ore., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Recent heavy rain in the area has been helpful for moisture loving mushrooms. |
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| A beetle scales one of the amazing little mushrooms. |
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| A spider mite climbs on the stem of a very small mushroom growing on the side of a dead tree on a hillside in the Coastal Mountains of Oregon near Elkton on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Spider mites are not true spiders, but many species do spin webs. |
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A dead vole lays on a bed of damp grass and clover along a dirt road in rural Douglas County in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. A heavy rainstorm overnight may have drowned the rodent and pushed it from its burrow.
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| A couple of lams nap in the afternoon sun in a pasture east of Roseburg last week. |
