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Slug species feeding on oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus)

Slug poo helps mushrooms start new colonies by spreading spores

24 February 2022

Mantleslugs carry spores of dozens of fungal species in their faeces, and some of them even begin to germinate within the moist digestive tracts

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