But here you can see a network of soil fungus, with a reproductive spore at the center of the image. Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how a fungus reproduces, let alone about what ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

at 150° C.), one of the slips of paper is transferred to a sterile Petri dish and a small mass of conidia or spores is placed on the unpunched end of the paper. Using the end of a glass rod ...

Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic size, their short lifespan and the hidden habitats they call home — such as ...

This group of fungi includes species that rely on arthropods to disperse their spores or act as hosts for them. Many of these fungi live as minute parasites on the surface of insects such as ...

In July 2023, heavy rains continued in southern Sri Lanka for days, soaking the lush greenery of the village of Hapugala in ...

The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores. The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii ...

"Once this disease is present in the soil, the spores… of that fungus that cause the disease can live in the soil for 10, 20, 50 years," said . "There's no way that we know of to get rid of ...

The Last of Us‘ video game fans were expecting to see the Cordyceps fungus spread through spores in the air when season on of the TV series hit our screens. After all, that’s how the virus ...