Host: on adult beetle (Coleoptera)
Habitat: montane to high-montane, humid, secondary mountain forests
Ecoregion: Bolivian Yungas (NT0105)
Collectors: D. Newman, P. Kaishian, L. Deininger, D. Ettlinger & T. Padilla
Collection #: CoHo008
In moss.
On Vespine wasp (yellowjacket).
Collected by Cornelia Cho.
Host: on adult beetle (Coleoptera)
Habitat: montane to high-montane, humid, secondary mountain forests
Ecoregion: Bolivian Yungas (NT0105)
Collectors: D. Newman, P. Kaishian, L. Deininger, D. Ettlinger & T. Padilla
Collection #: CoHo008
Growing on ants (Camponotus sp.?) on 2 separate decorticated hardwood logs at least 200 feet apart. The ants were both hanging from the top of small tunnels in the logs that had small openings that the ascocarps were growing through.
Entomopathogenic fungus growing out of an old ant that grips the plant.
Growing from the head of a beetle larva buried deeply in moss in the “Asbury fen”. Fairly brittle. Broke while I was trying to extract the host.
3.5 cm stipe below ground. Fibrous stipe. Mild mushroom odour. Pinkish Orange, top is creamier
Small slender fungal club approximately 3.5 cm long with dark brown color and white tip, parasitizing what appears to be a large (newly mated queen?) ant. Upper length of fruiting body was exposed growing from crevice in bark of a small tree's bark, around 5.5 feet above ground. Under the bark was a small cavity with a dead queen ant covered in mycelia. The fruiting body was growing from the side of ants thorax, up through the decaying bark. One living queen ant was also present in the same small cavity, nesting her pupae.
I couldn’t see a bug, it may have been very decomposed or maybe it was deeper. If the bug was just about gone, that would explain the extremely small size. The hymenophore was less than 1 mm across.
Herbarium specimen was lost due to small size.
Cordyceps sp. Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, Orange County, Florida, USA.