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The spore mass was photographed through the Meiji and then discarded, so as to not have them floating around the house. When I initially took that photograph, there were so many of them airborne that they set me into a fit of sneezing, notice the jagged edges of the spores, much like spiny pollen grains. Since then I have did some more tweeking of the Meiji's photo tube and eyepiece and so I am presently getting much better images from it, with much more detail. Hopefully when myxos are in full swing I will be able to provide much better images like this and of them, than in the past with the Meiji.
but alas, I did not find any beetle larvae. As you can see though, the inside of the aethalium is very fiberous and the amount of spores therein, in number, probably exceeds the amount in dollars of our national deficit. As I sit here at my computer 
, my noise running and slightly burning, I cannot help but to think of those ants who also have ingested spores from certain fungi. It would behoove me, it seems, to purchase some sort of facial breathing mask, the type surgons use, to wear in situations such as this if I continue on in fooling around with fungi and myxomycetes, so as not to inhale the spores. Here is the inside of Lycogala epidendrum, the aethalium with the holes that were bored in the side.
Go head...ask me how I would handle N. Korea 
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Wim/Bruce, thanks guys 
