Flying fungi Meet the red-cockaded woodpecker, a black and white bird with a real knack for making holes in living pine trees. Read on to learn of its incredible relationship with a shelf fungus that eats the heartwood of those same pines. February 3, 2019 February 3, 2019 1 Comment

Connecting the Rusts Rust fungi have complex lives that can involve two different plants and five kinds of spores. Who figured that out?

An unlikely delicacy: the basket stinkhorn Who dares speak of food and stinkhorns in the same breath? We're brave.

Twinkly earthstars Beautiful, animated earthstars and their hidden diversity.

Ladybug Fungi Three cheers for ladybugs? No, three fungi.

A deadly Russula An Asian Russula that can kill! A post by Ben Hoffman.

Learning fungi JH Petersen's book 'The Kingdom of Fungi' is a great intro to a little-known part of our world.