For this year’s Halloween Special, the Queens are delving into the low horrifying world of mushrooms and fungi.
Don’t get us wrong, they’re awesome. But they can also rate pretty highly on the creep scale. Their interconnected mycelium network, how they spew spores around the place, and how fast they can pop up overnight – it’s wild.
But there are some particularly special mushrooms and fungi that we wanted to spotlight because they’re next level scary (and cool, honestly). We won’t give too much away, but if you’re after some tales of ‘bleeding’ mushrooms, another that control ants or perhaps one that look like a tentacle monster and smells like rotten flesh on purpose, you’ve come to the right place.
Show Notes
- Getting Started With Mushroom Grow Kits [Urban Spore]
- You can get mushrooms growing kits here and here
- If you’re after mushroom growing supplies Root Lab is a good choice
- Fungi Found at French Island are Few and Far Between [Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria]
- Fungi Map: Tea-Tree Fingers [Fungi Map]
- Nature Notes – Octopus Stinkhorn [Ascension Island government]
- A specialized fungal parasite (Massospora cicadina) hijacks the sexual signals of periodical cicadas [Nature.com]
- How This Zombie Fungus Turns Cicadas into Horror-Movie Sex Bots [Scientific American]
- Learn more about Witch’s Butter here and here
- Bleeding Tooth Fungus [Forest Floor Narrative]
- How climate change could make us more susceptible to fungal infections [Wired]
- Killer Pharmacy: Inside a Medical Mass Murder Case [News Week]
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