This is an image of the hyphae, or threads, and fruiting bodies of an Aspergillus fungus. The tubelike branching structures are the hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of a ...

Gardening expert Melinda Myers explains why mushrooms sprout on your lawn and trees and what to do about them.

Get a closer view of the image Get a closer view of the image Get a closer view of the image Get a closer view of the image This is an image of the hyphae and fruiting bodies of a white jelly fungus ...

reproductive part of a larger fungal organism. The above-ground portion is referred to as the fruit body, but below ground, it’s connected to a large network of thin, microscopic threads called ...

Mushrooms are the spore-bearing fruiting body of the fungus, usually consisting of a stem and cap with gills on the underside, though the fruiting body of some types of gilled fungi do not possess ...

Its signature gooey red liquid is a sap-like substance that oozes out during a process called guttation when the fungi releases excess moisture from its fruiting body. However, it is not always ...

This causes the ant’s jaws to clamp down, on a tree branch, for example. Then, the fruiting body of the fungus erupts from the ant’s head and releases spores into the air that infect other ants.

The fungus puppeted each ant’s little legs, taking it away from its bustling colony and up a stalk, where it would wait to die. Then a giant, fuzzy, spore-covered pillar called a fruiting body ...

Several days after the ant has died, the fungus sends a fruiting body out through the base of the ant’s head, turning its shriveled corpse into a launchpad from which it can jettison its spores ...