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 ...

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 ...

Anna (Norris) Mitchell is a writer, editor, and photographer who loves capturing nature through her camera lens. Panellus stipticus is one of the brightest-glowing bioluminescent mushrooms on Earth.

When classifying bacteria and fungi, morphological features are v­ery relevant. Colony morphology is a useful tool widely ... filamentous fungi, and mushrooms. Under damp and warm conditions, fungi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Decades ago, a Washington mycologist named Paul Stamets noticed that bees seemed drawn to water droplets on mushrooms in his garden. After the rise of colony ... properties of fungi for humans.

But a newly described mystery involving a mushroom and a frog suggests that fungi’s role in the environment is anything but black-and-white. Some naturalists stumbled upon a strange sight within ...

It promises players the chance to immerse their Impostors and Crewmates in a "weird mushroom jungle". Are InnerSloth putting the fun in fungal? Well, we don't have long until we can find out ...