The wonderfully named stinkhorn fungi genus uses the same tactic as the titan arum to attract the insects and beetles it needs to spread its spores. The anemone stinkhorn, Aseroe rubra, is found in ...
A satirical Donald Trump mushroom statue has sprouted up in New York. It was the latest in a series of mysterious Donald Trump statues that have appeared in Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and ...
As part of the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, he and Honan have taken participants out into the field to show them how to find species of mushroom, and how to record what they are seeing.
While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...
PORT ANGELES, United States – You cannot walk very far through a forest in this part of the United States without stumbling upon a mushroom, an eruption from a vast fungal kingdom that all life ...
The Mushroom Shop welcomes visitors with a wide selection of fresh mushrooms and whimsical, hand-drawn art to match. Tyler Akabane is both the owner and founder of the shop. Above, he shows off ...
"Fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants." Plants make their own food through photosynthesis, but mushrooms have to eat something else. "They spit out different enzymes ...
Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats ...