It appears that the fungus alters the behaviour of the ant to help disperse its spores in a microhabitat that best suits the fungus.

These are spores this is in their spores.

Penicillium fungus.

Like a fungus.

These agents destroy bacterial spores.

This is extremely rare fungus.

to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

There's a dreadful fungus that's moving through the world that's called the chytrid fungus, and it's nailing frogs all over the world.

Once formed, these spores are very hard to eradicate.

Leafcutter ants are sensitive enough to recognise the reaction of the fungus to different plant material, apparently detecting chemical signals from the fungus.

And this mold, this fungus was called Penicillium, the

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

Pullulan is produced from starch by the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans .

So with the help of some biologists studying the fungus,

Fungus growing ants that make up the tribe Attini, including leafcutter ants, cultivate certain species of fungus in the Leucoagaricus or Leucocoprinus genera of the Agaricaceae family.

The fundamental forms of ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

First, a burial suit infused with mushroom spores, the Mushroom Death Suit.

It's covered with a crocheted netting that is embedded with mushroom spores.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

The fungus kills the ants, grows on their remains, and produces a fruiting body.

We think that's probably what got this frog, and humans are spreading this fungus.

Things like plants, animals, fungus, protists, things like that that are really really large.

The Armillaria is actually a predatory fungus, killing certain species of trees in the forest.

And he went out, and he came back into the room, and he saw that some mold, some fungus had grown on this, kind of a bluish greenish fungus had grown on the center of his

The largest ants cut stalks, smaller workers chew the leaves and the smallest tend the fungus.

A standard catalyst free spray destroys fewer than half the spores in the same amount of time.

Clearing the Senate office building of anthrax spores cost 27 million, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The cabinet is usually made of stainless steel with no gaps or joints where spores might collect.

The biological weapons programme also began research on other agents, including ricin toxin and Clostridium botulinum spores.

So with the help of some biologists studying the fungus, I got some maps and some GPS coordinates and chartered a plane and started looking for the death rings, the circular patterns in which the fungus kills the trees.

In 1993, taro, a traditional culture, was hit by a taro leaf blight, a fungus disease. 10

Using the catalyst method, a complete destruction of all anthrax spores can be achieved in under 30 minutes.

The Soviet Union created and stored 100 to 200 tons of anthrax spores at Kantubek on Vozrozhdeniya Island.

But there are many wonders back in there, like this weird fungus on some of the collapsed timbers.

And he says, the link to one site didn't just grow on the other page like a tree fungus.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

Damage caused by the anthrax spores and bacilli to the central chest cavity can cause chest pain and difficulty breathing.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

And feet in the water will develop fungus, infections, and that infection pains because then other insects bite that point.

The other was a type of tinder fungus, included with part of what appeared to be a complex firestarting kit.

So I'm not sure if there are any in this photo, but I do know the fungus is down there.

And then this back down on the ground and you can see that the fungus is actually invading this tree.

And feet in the water will develop fungus, infections, and that infection pains because then other insects bite that point.