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Tiny yellow fungi growing on a failed hatching of Leaf Insect (Phyllium).
Spotted on Apr 24, 2015
Submitted on Apr 27, 2015
4 Comments
Horrific beauty!
For me a mistery itself, how can some kinds of such parasiting fungi "manipulate" their victims to do them a "last favor" by dying on the edge of a leaf (at least in best position) to make spore spreading most effective ... (!)... ?
Ancient misteries of life and death all around - Thanks for spotting!
Wow! Awesome find.
Thanks, @Juan DiTrani.
Will add it to the mission
Wow!, very cool picture. I think this could be an amazing spot for the mission Arthropods Parasited by Fungi http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1159...