Growing on what seemed to be a tiny ant, with golden brown stipe and long white asexual structure.
Another participant found this during a WPMC walk within .5 of a mile SW-ish of this GPS tag.
larva not pupa as usually find these growing from, hoping for an ID from the moth too, but I am not expecting this will get looked at by the bug people way over here in Cordyceps.
fruiting prolifically throughout the area. dozens of fruiting bodies line the trails. could conceivably collected for food.
Substrate: on Lepidopteran larvae.
Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.
Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher
Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.
fruiting prolifically throughout the area. dozens of fruiting bodies line the trails. could conceivably collected for food.
Substrate: on Lepidopteran larvae.
Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.
Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher
Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.
fruiting prolifically throughout the area. dozens of fruiting bodies line the trails. could conceivably collected for food.
Substrate: on Lepidopteran larvae.
Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.
Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher
Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.
Growing on a lepidopteran larva among hemlock litter.