#cordyceps

[honeymushroom]

nobody understands my humor

[alexanderpearce]

ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

[rthwrms]

cordyceps x carpenter ant

linocut print over a gelli print

[charliedzilla]

“Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them."

On etsy as prints, notebooks, brooches and stickers.

[karinagaz]

FUNGUARY 05, Cordyceps, month of mushrooms! ALSO THANK YOU FOR MY FIRST 10 patreons!!! #cordyceps #fungi #funguary #funguary2023 #funguaryday5 #marker #markerart #inking #ink #watercolorpaper #mushroom #mushroomlady #firehead #monsterlady #bathingsuit #creepylady https://www.instagram.com/p/CoRq0H1qkub/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[onenicebugperday]

Weevil infected with entomopathogenic fungus

Photographed in Peru by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[sinnaminie]

I plushified the giant Bloater fella from Ep 5 of The Last of Us...

This might be one of my most favourite plushies I’ve ever made. 

He became so much more adorable than I thought he would 

[idek-how-do-ifeel]

Ok but I legitimately will never understand this

Like bye

[inkeyjay]

more funky dudes

[lionfloss]

Cordyceps fungus infects tarantula

[geekynerfherder]

'One Worth Saving' by Greg Ruth.

A series of original drawings, one inspired by each episode of the Neil Druckman / Craig Mazen / HBO adaptation of 'The Last Of Us'.

13" x 13" graphite original art on paper.

All remaining 1/1 originals will premiere exclusively Friday March 17 at 12pm ET on Greg's store.

[caleod]

24-9-23

[the-irreverend]

It's official.

I never want to put mushrooms on anything I eat ever again.

[rthwrms]

said cordyceps to the ant: i love you. and the ant said nothing.

prints available here

[pillo-makes-art]

Trying to come up with an angel design based on the cordyceps fungus.

I also thought it could be an interesting idea to explore, evil and corruption spreading on an angel’s body and sprouting in growth that resemble horns… what is a fallen angel if a corrupt being, not in control of their body anymore? I think it’s a cool idea. Still an embryo of an idea tho. I don’t know what it’ll come of it.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

THIS IS SO COOL! So animals can get fungal infections, as can plants and even other fungi. We've seen fungi like Cordyceps produce fruiting bodies on insect hosts postmortem. But this is the first known observation of a fruiting body on a live host! And the frog apparently seemed to be in good health otherwise.

It's likely a situation with an opportunistic spore of Mycena landing in a wound or other small vulnerability on the frog's skin, and since amphibians have to stay wet, the fungus had plenty of water. I'm not sure what it's been consuming since Mycena normally is a decomposer of dead plant tissue; maybe dead skin cells and bacteria?

Before people start leaping to conclusions, this is NOT the start of some sort of zombie apocalypse. Mycena and Cordyceps engage with their hosts in very different ways, and neither are anywhere near related to any fungi that parasitize human hosts and which do not cause any sort of altered mental state of that sort. I find it kind of sad when people have to sci-fi a new scientific discovery in order to find it interesting enough to think about, instead of just appreciating how awesome, weird, and scary nature is all on its own.

Regardless, this is a really spectacular find, and we'll see if any other crop up or whether this was one of those once-in-a-lifetime discoveries.