Hey, this is fucked up. I know I answered this one. These are photos I took in the fall of `01.
I'd be real suspicious of anything growing this early in the year. These ones crop up reliably in a 20 or 30 foot fairy ring, but not till around October. They like to be in loamy soil under connifers or oak and beech. The undersides are white. They have a ring where the bloom has seperated from the stem. Those dots are actually little bits of the bloom that sticks to the topside of the cap, so they look like wet, sort of beige colored rice paper.
I did the trick w/ the flies too. It worked. Here's what you do. Soak one or two big ones in milk for awhile, maybe 20 min, enough to penetrate the gills. Take them out onto a plate, leave them in a shady spot near some flies. They won't just die, they'l trip balls first. That's how you can tell. The stuff doesn't kill them by toxin. It just makes them too insesible to fly right or get water and food. That's the primary danger to humans, too, though too much by just a little can beat hell out of your kidneys and/or cns. It's a good idea to cleanse for awhile before and after, as even used properly, they are taxing on your system.
