Fungi Taking Over The World!!

[scottythepinetree]

Freaky, mindboggling stuff!!! Wildlife Extra News - Zombie ant fungus: four species not one

[David Humphries]

I seem to recall being suitably freaked by it when it was shown on one of the Attenborough programs.

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8]YouTube - Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife[/ame]

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

crikey you lot are slow on the uptake! this was revealed in the secret life of plants over a decade ago!

[WeeDee]

Another absolute marvel - no matter when an individual discovers it.

Thanks for posting.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Another absolute marvel - no matter when an individual discovers it.

Thanks for posting.

 

Indeed, just teasing, its what we do best!

 

tis a remarkable thing, I sometimes ponder the meaning of mycophageous, a term scientists use for species that are involved with fungi in some way.

 

I would say that ALL life is mycophageous, so making the term rather pointless!

[WeeDee]

I thought mycophageous described an organism that 'ate' fungi.

I may be stuck with a schoolboy's definition.

Does it also have a more encompassing meaning?

[scottythepinetree]

crikey you lot are slow on the uptake! this was revealed in the secret life of plants over a decade ago!

A decade ago I was more interested in the crash, bang, wallop aspect of arb. Not to mention not long out of school, old man:001_tt2:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I thought mycophageous described an organism that 'ate' fungi.

I may be stuck with a schoolboy's definition.

Does it also have a more encompassing meaning?

 

good question, i thought it was that an organism transfered/ate that it had in its life cycle some connection with fungi as apposed to purely eating. I shall investigate

 

A decade ago I was more interested in the crash, bang, wallop aspect of arb. Not to mention not long out of school, old man:001_tt2:

 

I was just teasing because i spoke of these before, and i hung on attenboroughs every word as a child.

[Ruskins Trees]

I think my wife has been infected by a fungus. Her whole existence is driven by an uncontrollable urge to spend my money, usually on tat.

 

Come to think of it, it may be me with the fungus letting her get away with it.