All of these rusts release the bright rusty-orange spores once spring weather becomes mild and damp, often around late March ...

But here you can see a network of soil fungus, with a reproductive spore at the center of the image. Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how a fungus reproduces, let alone about what ...

Recent analysis of homes in Syracuse, N.Y., indicated high levels of basidiomycete fungi in 41 percent of the homes studied (Anagnost et al. 2006). In some homes, 90 percent of the spores recovered ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

some termites collect spores of white-rot fungi from the environment and grow them on a comb-like structure built from dead plant material. The termites tend to the comb, feeding it wood they ...

Today, around 90 percent of plants depend on these fungal networks which, as Adam explains, is nicknamed the “Wood Wide Web ... Fungi use spores like plants use seeds, to help them spread ...

Undyed, untreated wood is a sustainable material that ... but you might want to dispose of spore-shooting artillery fungus.