Bring flowers to your own funeral!
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- Charles Krebs
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There were two of them in the cedar tree, the other had progressed to just a white mass of filaments, but this one still had the lovely fruiting bodies. But I suspect it does bode ill for the rest of the jumpers in the cedar tree…Ken Ramos wrote:Charlie wrote:You bet and if Doug see's it, he will too! I have never seen a spider with Cordyceps, this is great but well...not for the Jumper though I suppose. I wonder how it got a snoot full of spores anyway?... Ken's gonna like these...
-Jim
jlkramer wrote/asked:
Opps, sorry My mistake, I think you have sufficently satisfied my curiosity, thanks . Those are awesome, I have never seen nothing like that around here since I first started looking for infected insects.Did you look at the link in my first post and what would you like to see?
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I wondered it that wasn't what you were thinking well after I read your post, along with what is the correct word for a "Sporinator?"Harold Gough wrote:I thought I was looking at anthers. I ordered that scratch repair kit for my specs just in time!Harold Gough wrote:A bonus pollinator?
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-Jim
WOW an Incredible find Jim. Cordyceps all the way. just look at those cold dead eyes. Just imagine the brain being eaten away by a fungus. The yellow section looks fresh . I have had no luck this year finding any specimens of Cordyceps
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- Mike B in OKlahoma
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Very impressive find and captures! Super cool, even though a bit gross!
Mike Broderick
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul....My mandate includes weird bugs."
--Calvin
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Constructive critiques of my pictures, and reposts in this forum for purposes of critique are welcome
"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul....My mandate includes weird bugs."
--Calvin
If you do a quick Google on Cordyceps there is a fair bit of info on its use as an insecticide. But now I have to risk looking foolish and ask what TED is?Ken Ramos wrote:You know I saw a talk on TED , where this guy had developed a pesticide using fungi. Seems he completely eliminated the carpenter ants that were infesting his home by infecting them with spores and they never came back, the ants that is.
-Jim