The Toxin That Helps Oyster #Mushrooms Devour Worms https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/science/oyster-mushrooms-carnivorous-toxins.html

Carnivorous #mushroom paralyzes, kills #nematodes via a volatile ketone https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade4809

It’s not just the #OysterMushroom. Some #fungi craft sticky nets laced with tempting scents to snare their prey. Others create collars that constrict as the worm struggles, immobilizing it as the fungus’s #hyphae penetrate its body. Some release sickle-shape spores that, when swallowed by a nematode, wreak havoc from within.