strange fungi link.

[geoff]

This frightened the bejesus out of me,scrowl down the link to the vid,

 

 

 

 

Zombie' Ants Taken Over by 48M-Year-Old Parasitic Fungus - CKA News

[sean]

wow.....thats incredible........amazing footage.....scarey, gobsmacking.......wonderous!

[Bundle 2]

Rainforests....less than 7% of the land mass of the planet- estimated to have 40-75% of the worlds species indigineous to them. Will we see 48 million year fungi extinct as a result of palm oil obsession....?

Groovy post Geoff-

 

Rainforest Facts :: Environmental Facts :: Young People's Trust for the Environment

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

This isnt the only fungi to "brainwash" insects int he rain forests.

 

There are many, i think one at least for each species of ivert, one of them enduces the insect to climb as high into the canopy as it can, where it goes to the end of a leaf or branch raises its head then dies locked in position where the fungi then erupts from the head like a little macroscopic stalk and sporalates.

 

I personaly believe that fungi are the most evolved and most able organism to overcome niche dilema, after all its fair to assume that it was fungis "inclusive" relationship with algea that enabled the first colonisations of the bare rock of early earth. it was these life forms that formed the soils and humus layer that later made further life evolutionary proscesses to begin, so its also fair to say that all life on earth has been "cultivated" by fungi.