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Alien Invasion! Star Jelly, Slime Molds & Zombie Ants75

Alien Invasion! Star Jelly, Slime Molds & Zombie Ants

Are aliens already here? Some earthly life forms are so strange they seem more like space invaders. Theories like Panspermia and Neopanspermia suggest that the fungus among us might just be from far beyond earth and the human imagination.

11 comments    mushrooms fungus fungi
Eat for Free from Mother Natures Larder72

Eat for Free from Mother Natures Larder

Mother Natures larder is very rarely empty, and if you know exactly where to look you can soon find a veritable feast. The most common of our so called weeds can be used to produce very tasty healthy treats and staples in our diets. and the added...

4 comments    family cooking free
Fellowship of the Fungi64

Fellowship of the Fungi

Lactarius indigo This is the first of many mini eco-episodes about mushrooms and other interesting fungi that I and my myco-minded friends have, and will come upon, on our fun as fungi forages through pristine primordial forest. Here I will...

0 comments    food nature mushrooms
mushroom man mindmeld58

mushroom man mindmeld

a stunning hericeum ramosum - a delicate fragrant delicious fungal specimen beautifully rupturing from a rotting log Man is but a big mushroom I say I say - quite enthusiastically. He just hasn't completely realized it yet, well at least not all us...

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41st Annual Fungus Fair at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley67

41st Annual Fungus Fair at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley

This weekend was the 41st Annual Fungus Fair at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. This is the largest annual public event of Mycological Society of San Francisco. Initially I signed up to do set up on...

4 comments    science mushrooms fungi
Saving the Planet with Mushrooms73

Saving the Planet with Mushrooms

How the lowly fungus can recycle waste, make harmless nuclear waste, and help cure the world's ills. Five things mushrooms are really good at doing.

3 comments    mushrooms mycology mycelium
How Mushrooms are Cultivated on a Farm63

How Mushrooms are Cultivated on a Farm

Sunday was Mycological Society's Far West Fungi Farm field trip. We arrived at the Farm just minutes past noon, and joined the first tour led by one of John and Toby Garrone's (owners and long time members of...

0 comments    farm mushrooms
cordycep sinensis - substrates used64

cordycep sinensis - substrates used

Cordyceps sinensis is a mycology marvel of a fungus, habitually found in elevated areas of China and Tibet. This specialized mushroom targets a specific kind of moth, Hepialus armoricanus Oberthur. This...

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How To Grow Gourmet Mushrooms 69

How To Grow Gourmet Mushrooms

Growing gourmet mushrooms is easier than you think. Want to learn how? Check out this hub!

0 comments    magic gourmet mushrooms
Branches of Biology and its Meaning65

Branches of Biology and its Meaning

  The following are the various branches of biology: Botany is the study of plants. Zoology is the study of animals. Anatomy is the study of internal structures of living things. Biochemistry is the use of chemistry in the study of living...

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