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Polyporus spp. : Bracket or Shelf Fungi
Name: Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi Common Names: Bracket fungi, shelf fungi, conks, oysters, wood rot fungi, sulphur shelf, birch bracket, dryad’s saddle, artist’s conk, turkey tail. Taxonomy: Kingdom: Fungi. Phylum: Basidiomycota. Class: Agaricomycetes. Order: Polyporales. Family: Polyporaceae. Genus: Polyporus. … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnobotany, Flora, Fungi, mythology
Tagged agaricomycetes, artist's conk, basidiomycota, birch bracket, bracket fungi, conks, dead trees, dryad's saddle, edibles, fungi, mushrooms, oysters, parasites, polyporaceae, polyporales, polyporus, shelf fungi, sulphur shelf, turkey tail, wood rot fungi
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“Zombie” Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees – Yahoo! News
By Katherine Harmon | Scientific American – 22 hrs ago cross-posted via WordPress “Press This” A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology/Environmentalism, Insects
Tagged agriculture, bees, fly pupae, fungus, honeybees, parasites, viruses, zombies
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