PhD opportunity!! 🍄🥜🍄🟫🪲🪰We have a fully funded position available at La Trobe Uni in Melbourne, for an exciting project in #insect #pathology! The student will explore combining #entomopathogenic #fungi with #RNAi as a novel biological pest management approach. See details in the attached flyer
#Ticks #Entomopathogenic #fungi #IPM #Integrated #Pest #Management #Biological #Control #Attract-and-kill #Metarhizium #Amblyomma #Rhipicephalus
Big welcome to Bluesky to Nigel @nigsyceps.bsky.social from all the #fungifriends :) Not many #entomopathogenic #fungi species that havent had this guy staring at them. Worth a follow just to anchor him here lols. Some zombies from my backyard as post bling :D
First #entomopathogenic #fungi find today was a very elderly #purpureocillium on a spider. Yes, you always want to find a zombie fungi at its peak, the perfect fruiting.... but the trick is to find examples all along their life cycle, as they never not interesting. Only then can you id the random
So if you are hunting a particular #entomopathogenic #fungi species to photograph, the result will depend a lot on what "morph" you find, and at what part of its life cycle. And then theres perspective. For example #Akanthomyces on moths, deserve to be photographed as royalty. #respect
#Chemosensory proteins-mediated #immune response to #Beauveria bassiana infection in Monochamus alternatus #entomopathogenic fungus #pine sawyer beetle
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Recent #taxonomic research has officially identified two new species of #entomopathogenic (insect-pathogenic) fungi: 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 and 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴:
📚Check them out here: doi.org/10.3897/myco...
#newspecies #biodiversity #fungi #insect #pathogens
The emerging role of Fungi in sustainable farming and global food security
#Bioremediation
#Climatechange
#Entomopathogenic
#Plantgrowthpromotion
#Soildegradation
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A new study: Multi-component trail pheromones of the #entomopathogenic #nematodes #Steinernema diaprepesi and #Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#EPNs #biocontrol #pheromones #ascarosides #trailpheromone #behavior #insect #pests @pheronym.com @entsocamerica.bsky.social
📷 Australian Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) infected with Metarhizium spp. ©️Nirodha Weeraratne
😔 Not a good ##FungalFriday because our grant application for resolving #taxonomy of #Australia's biggest collection of #Entomopathogenic #fungi #Metarhizium was unsuccessful.
🪲 Please bear with me while I try to recover in my hideout just like a sick beetle would do.
If you would like to know more about what I do, and pickup some tips on discovering your own strange #entomopathogenic #zombie #fungi locally, check out my chat with the wonderful Dani from the #citizenscienceshow podcast.They do such a good job supporting science! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/0...
This was the first #entomopathogenic fungi I found in the dirt. Some Ophiocordyceps entomorrhiza photos looked similar but I never made an actual ID #Fungifriends
The host is so buried there is little clue to its species. This #entomopathogenic fungi seemed oddly out of place. Clamped on a palm tree like an albino urchin. #Fungifriends
I have still not managed to ID this #entomopathogenic #zombie #fungi, however we have now found it at 3 locations :)
Collecting a #Cordyceps tenuipes, #entomopathogenic #fungi on a caterpillar for a herbarium to culture
#Conoideocrella luteorostrata, the scale insect hunting fungus, at work :) Many of the #Entomopathogenic #fungi are possible replacements for chemical insecticides, especially in intensive agriculture.
My eyes see this as a fallen gorilla covered in ice crystals...
but it is another #spider hosting an #entomopathogenic #zombie fungi that is itself hosting a spikey white hyper parasitic #fungi. #fungifriends
Some of our coolest bugs here are introduced. Like #Stephanitis pyrioides, the #azalea lace bug. It makes for a tiny host for some of our local #entomopathogenic #fungi
#Gibellula #Teleomorph has quite the stare. Today is a good day to appreciate your antifungal skin oils :) #Entomopathogenic #Zombie #Fungifriends
macro_captures #macro_freaks #macro_perfection #macrophotography #macroalit #macrogrammers #macro_top1 #makrofotografie #nature_greatshots #macromexicano #insectosdemexico #lastofus #entomopathogenicfungi #entomopathogenic
Hey close your eyes and put out your hands, I want to show you something cool. #entomopathogenic #Fungifriends
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal! Possibly my new favourite #entomopathogenic #zombie #fungi photo :) #Fungifriends
🪲 This #FungalFriday is for #fungi residing on #ChristmasBeetles.
🧫 Last Christmas, we gave our hearts to these sick Anoplognathus porosus beetles & cultured swabs.
🔬 The very next week, we saw interesting fungal cultures arising, which could be both #entomopathogenic & entomobeneficial! 😃
#MycoSky
I post a lot of #Gibellula. They were the first #entomopathogenic #zombie #fungi I noticed, and remain today a constant source of wonder to me. The blend of Animal, Fungi and Plant kingdoms coming together to birth such a strange result is just so Earth. What a great planet :) #fungifriends
Sure I may have almost totally destroyed this leaf before knocking it down, but while the maple leaf is shredded and brutalized.... the fungi on spider is completely intact. Throwing sticks is as Australian as cooking on an open fire. Its a good skill to have. While an old example of a gibellula fungi is of no use for culturing or sampling, it is very useful as an education aid. Its one thing to say you find these, its another to find one in front of people, in their garden and introduce it to them. I am a huge fan of NOT collecting fungi, which seems an odd thing to say as I post photos of collected samples. The reality though is 99% of fungi I see I only photograph. Those I collect, I collect for researchers and educators. Its difficult to see the spider under this white blob, but the fungi itself is likely several months old and has long since finished dropping its spores. But if I was to swab it and try culture it, its likely I would see dozens of different opportunistic fungi that have now made their homes there. Genetics has shown us that diversity is everywhere. Nothing is simple. Everything is a dance of different organisms and nutrient loops and cycles. Science gives us a glimpse, but the whole picture is so huge, you could spend your whole life trying to understand the drama playing out on this one leaf, and still die with mysteries unsolved :)
OPERATION *NO REST FOR THE DEAD* #Zombie Hunter hot jungle tips :) Have you been drinking at a friends BBQ and noticed an #entomopathogenic #fungi above you in a maple tree, but its way out of reach and no one believes you? Throwing sticks at it may be the answer. This old gib only took 200 throws!
OPERATION *NO REST FOR THE DEAD* #Zombie Hunter hot jungle tips :) Want to play the game on easy mode? Well #entomopathogenic #fungi can be much easier to spot, merely by looking at night time with the aid of a torch. Just remember, chill homie, as you are the scariest thing in the dark jungle :)
OPERATION *NO REST FOR THE DEAD* #Zombie Hunter hot jungle tips :) The best mental approach is just "Keepin' on keepin' on". Don't give up. I trained by just trying daily to spot #entomopathogenic #fungi for 4+ years now. Many are tiny, like yesterdays. But in this game thats worth double points!!
OPERATION *NO REST FOR THE DEAD* #Zombie Hunter hot jungle tips :) When hunting the smallest of #Entomopathogenic #fungi, especially on tree trunks, your best tool is often to silhouette them. Move around the tree watching the silhouetted edge. Fungi 1 or 2mm long will be far easier to see this way.
