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Matt Kasson, PhD 🍄🧫

@imperfectfunguy

Mycologist & Forest Pathologist | WVU | Nat Geo & SPUN Explorer | SciComm | Boy dad | husband | ADHD |🏃| he/his | Host of @plantdisease’s Plantopia podcast

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2 months ago

This is the parasitic fungus Arthrophaga myriapodina, which causes infected millipedes to climb to an elevated spot before death! This one fell from its ferny perch and landed on its back allowing the fungus to prosper and sporulate in between segments on its underside!

This is the parasitic fungus Arthrophaga myriapodina, which causes infected millipedes to climb to an elevated spot before death! This one fell from its ferny perch and landed on its back allowing the fungus to prosper and sporulate in between segments on its underside!