Bug Fung

[David Humphries]

Fomes beetles having a feast

 

 

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[MATTMOSS]

Do these beetles just eat the fungal growth or the wood?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Do these beetles just eat the fungal growth or the wood?

 

 

the bracket itslef, there are many beetle specialists that live their entire lives around one species of fungi. It is probably the most interesting aspect of fungal ecology:thumbup1:

[MATTMOSS]

Ive never come across this before ill keep my eye out for these in future.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ive never come across this before ill keep my eye out for these in future.

 

then look for the orange and black "pleasant beetle of Laetiporus sulphureus, the pink beetle grubs of archesea marchens in inonotus hispidus brackets, and if you are lucky there is a beetle that has ONLY been found on inonotus cuticularis brackets, and only when they are inside cavities!

[Fungus]

a beetle that has ONLY been found on Inonotus cuticularis brackets, and only when they are inside cavities!

 

Tony,

Can you give me the latin name of this beetle ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Can you give me the latin name of this beetle ?

 

a small black beetle, Dorcatoma ambjoerni, is a real specialist as it has been found only inside hollow beeches, in the fruiting bodies of the bracket fungus, Inonotus cuticularis.

[David Humphries]

The frass coming from the galls of the yellow flat-footed fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii) on this Ganoderma applanatum/lipsiense on dead beech at Felbrigg Hall

 

& then a couple of elvishganokinder

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Not getting a fix on this one at all.

 

Any one care to have a guess ?

 

I was thinking mice

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

snails