This just popped up on my list, which is strangely delayed. Again, no biggie. If they bother you, pluck them out or turn them under (without disturbing a plant if present!) Otherwise, you can ignore them if you want to. The only slight warning is that if they're indoors (at this point, likely) keep children and pets away from the mushrooms. Without positive ID, we can't tell if they're toxic or not. And if you're allergic to fungal spores (I sure am), you may not want to allow the mushrooms to remain. Most mushrooms don't bother me, however.

Ilovetogrow, Those are beautiful green anoles you got there. We actually do have ONE species of lizard that lives around here. It is not native. It is the Italian Wall lizard, Podarcis sicula campestris. About 30 years ago, a pet store truck was involved in an accident which resulted in the release of some of these little guys around Hempstead, Long Island. They have since spread around Long Island and Queens. They are quite beautiful, just the size of your green anoles, and I assume they eat their share of bugs. I know there are some on the campus of Queens College, right down the street. I can't see why they couldn't come visit me. I spotted a gravid female and a male under the wrought iron fence bounding the Queens Botanical garden, and various neighbors a couple of blocks away have asked me what "that thing on their porch" is.

A couple of these things are fungus related, but not the kind of fungi that are harmful to plants. The white stuff is very likely a hyphae/mycelium mass from some kind of fungus. That is the actual decomposing (recycling the mulch) part of a mushroom. It's not a clear image, but I've seen that many times, myself. The little cup things are one of the bird's nest fungi...totally cool, huh? Perhaps that's where the hyphae came from. Can't help you with the egg thing. Picture is too fuzzy. There are some fungi that begin that way, though. Bark mulch will often be loaded up with an assortment of decomposing fungal bodies. They should be considered benign, even beneficial. As far as your other question goes...it is absolutely possible to spread insects, weeds, plant diseases and pathogens from one part of the yard to another. Actually, probable is a better word.

They are immature stinkhorn fungi, sometimes called the "egg" stage. We'll be able tell you what kind after they grow and mature, in just a few days. There are many species of stinkhorn fungus, all of them very interesting and some quite beautiful. But then there are the others......yikes!