These are spores this is in their spores.

Like a fungus.

You're just a fungus!

This is extremely rare fungus.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Analysis of those samples indicated that certain areas of the site did contain elevated levels of Bacillus anthracis spores.

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.

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.

I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.

You don't have to heat them up as hot as you would something you do pressure canning because bacterial spores can't grow in the acid.

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens and the environment.

Here you see a typical cucumber leaf that turned actually from green to black because of a black fungus, sooty mold, which is covering it.

But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non sporulating form.

Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.

It's also more benignly known as the honey mushroom or the humongous fungus because it happens to be one of the world's largest organisms as well.

Dr. Boyce, at the University of Chicago, published an article in the Journal of Geology this past year determining that Prototaxites was a giant fungus, a giant mushroom.

This substance is not only used to produce anthrax but also to produce botulinum toxin, at 0.5 per cent, Clostridium perfringens spores and single cell protein for animal feed.

So it's much closer, in a way, to a data fungus, in a sense, wrapped around that page, than it is to a deliberate link that I've placed there.

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

As we started to look at this information, we would see that about 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before no plant, animal, fungus, virus or bacteria.

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And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.

18. The Special Commission presented a diagram showing the only enzyme used to produce anthrax spores, yellow representing the quantity consumed in producing anthrax and blue representing the additional quantities of the substance provided by Iraq, including its imports.

They have their own tests, of course, and so they tested her for over 70 different assays, for every sort of bacteria and fungus and viral assay you can buy off the shelf SARS, metapneumovirus, HIV, RSV all these.

So that white material that you see in between the bark and the wood is the mycelial felt of the fungus, and what it's doing it's actually slowly strangling the tree to death by preventing the flow of water and nutrients.

If an intelligent extra terrestrial was taxed with writing the encyclopedia of life on our planet, 27 out of 30 of these volumes would be devoted to bacteria and virus, with just a few of the volumes left for plants, fungus and animals, humans being a footnote interesting footnote but a footnote nonetheless.

And the very first day that this fellow, John Allen, walked in, to spend a couple of days in there with all the plants and animals and bacteria that we'd put in there to hopefully keep him alive, the doctors were incredibly concerned that he was going to succumb to some dreadful toxin, or that his lungs were going to get choked with bacteria or something, fungus.