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Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Saturday, July 17, 2010
True Horror
Gibellula sp. of fungus, parasitizing a spider. Fungi of this unusual genus are pathogens of spiders. Windblown spores germinate on the exoskeleton, penetrate the spider, then grow internally, digesting their host. Finally, these spore-bearing synnemata erupt from the cadaver. 
Image by Ron Wolf.
Dear Lord,
Please keep us safe from Your creation.
Amen.
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