Mastodawn

solo 1h ago

Fungi found on coconut husks can decompose plastic, sunscreen

https://slrpnk.net/post/38114398

Fungi found on coconut husks can decompose plastic, sunscreen - SLRPNK

Lemmy

Adam Gladstone 21h ago

I'm a day early for #fungusfriday as I'm not sure I'll be able to post tomorrow:

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/1-turkey-tail-fungus-on-a-tree-trunk-adam-gladstone.html

#photography #ayearforart #buyintoart #fedigiftshop #fungus #turkeytail #fineartamerica

Turkey Tail Fungus on a Tree Trunk #1 by Adam Gladstone

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Soh Kam Yung 22h ago

"Prior field observers noticed honeybees actively foraging from rust-infected flowers, seemingly packing the spores around their legs just like pollen and flying the infected haul back to the hive. And so, the bees, which were introduced to Australia to act as commercial pollinators, could now be disease vectors."

https://nautil.us/why-these-bees-may-be-killing-the-plants-they-feed-from-1281014

#Australia #Plants #Bees #Fungus #Diseases #Mutualism

Why These Bees May Be Killing the Plants They Feed From

Why These Bees May Be Killing the Plants They Feed From: The dark side of pollinators

Guerric Haché 1d ago

It's hard to imagine a more out-of-this-world experience than being beamed up by a space fungus. I realized how similar a flying saucer and a mushroom cap look, and just had to do something about it.

I've got this on a shirt in my shop too! It's here: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4507172853/mushroom-ufo-tee-shirt

#vectorart #art #mushroom #ufo #aliens #graphicdesign #graphicart #fungus #fungi #vancouverart #canadianart #etsy #shrooms

RDN 1d ago

Honeybees in Australia collect spores of myrtle rust, an invasive fungus that kills eucalyptus and other trees. The rust spores are nutritionally equivalent to pollen, but they survive inside hives for over a week, so commercial transport of hives may foster the spread of the rust.

Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-bees-food-source-reshape-destructive.html

Original paper: https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/169027/

#Science #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology #Bees #Honeybees #MyrtleRust #Fungus

Bees found an unlikely new food source, and it could reshape how a destructive forest disease travels

New research published in NeoBiota has found that the Western honey bee—an introduced species to Australia—and the devastating, invasive plant fungus known as myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) may have formed a mutually beneficial relationship known as "invasional mutualism."

Phys.org

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Looking for explanations…1d ago

There was no fungus to be seen, until all of a sudden, there was!

#Lichen
#Mosstodon
#Fungus

solo 2d ago

Ants Farming Fungi for around 60 million years [9:45]

https://slrpnk.net/post/37996512

When Ants Domesticated Fungi [9:45] - SLRPNK

> Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprise all the known fungus-growing ant species participating in ant–fungus mutualism. They are known for cutting grasses and leaves, carrying them to their colonies’ nests, and using them to grow fungus, on which they later feed. from wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants]