When Italian botanist Giuseppe Inzenga first tasted the white ferula mushroom ... fungal filaments penetrate the roots of the plant, forming a placenta-like connection between the fungal colony ...

The vegetative parts of mushrooms ... bees from colony collapse disorder, a group of scientists recently spent four years focusing on how the mass of tubular filaments of certain fungi, known ...

It seems that queens aren't directly profiting from their farming skills but are using the fungal food to feed their future workforce instead. Setting up a new colony is a dangerous experience for ...

Invigorated by the damp, fungi living quietly in the soil sprout fruiting bodies. Some have the familiar mushroom shape of a stalk and a cap, but others resemble fluorescent corals, wads of clear ...

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Zombie ant fungi manipulate hosts to die on the 'doorstep' of the colony Date: August 18, 2014 Source: Penn State Summary: A parasitic fungus that must kill its ant hosts outside their nest to ...

And because the ant typically climbs a leaf that overhangs its colony’s foraging trails, the fungal spores rain down onto its sisters below, zombifying them in turn. Hughes’s student Maridel ...