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Think of the movie “Alien,” where the reptile-like space creature pulsates and grows inside its victim, then explodes out of his chest in a terrifying climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monster might be fictional, but scientists are studying a fungus that’s horrifyingly real — at least for the flies it invades, turns into a zombie-like state and kills in order to reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, it’s a nightmare for the flies,” said entomologist \u003ca href=\"https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/bradley-mullens\">Brad Mullens\u003c/a>, who retired from UC Riverside after studying the fungus for 20 years. “If their little brains could comprehend it, they would live in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fungus is known by its scientific name, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em>, which means “fly destroyer.” It lives off houseflies and fruit flies, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crazy system,” said \u003ca href=\"https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/carolyn-elya\">Carolyn Elya\u003c/a>, a researcher at Harvard. While getting her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, she described what a fungus infection looks like in fruit flies and she continues to study their interaction. “The fungus only kills at dusk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White fungus emerges from a dead fruit fly’s abdomen. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a killer puppeteer, the fungus follows a precise clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few days after picking up a fungal spore, an infected fruit fly seems normal. But inside its body, the fungus is growing, taking over the fly’s brain and central nervous system and feeding on its fat body, the tissue where insects store nutrients and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dusk on the fourth or fifth day, the fruit fly stops flying and starts behaving erratically, for example climbing up and down the toothpicks that Elya puts into the vials where she keeps the infected insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the fly climbs to the top of the toothpick, a behavior Elya and other scientists refer to as “summiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly climbs to the top of a toothpick shortly before dying, a behavior scientists call “summiting.” \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the fungus is tapping into the flies’ gravitactic circuitry — neurons that make them climb,” Elya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual twist, the fly then extends its mouthpart down, and some liquid drips out and glues the fly to the surface it’s standing on. Researchers believe the droplets are made up of fungus, though Elya said it’s not clear whether the fungus is inherently adhesive or makes itself sticky so that the fly gets stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949569\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly extends its mouthpart towards the tip of a toothpick it climbed up. Liquid on their mouthparts glues infected flies to the surface they’re standing on. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the next 10 or so minutes, the fly’s wings ascend in small bursts until they’re pointing straight up. Sometimes this happens more quickly. And then it dies frozen in this lifelike pose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly’s wings shoot up shortly before it dies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, white spongy fungus oozes out of its abdomen. When the fungus has all come out, the fly looks as if a cotton ball had grown over its lower body. This white goo is made up of hundreds of tiny lollipop-shaped protrusions called conidiophores, which each launch a microscopic bell-shaped spore at high speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fungus pushes through the soft cuticle in between the fly’s exoskeleton to shoot out its reproductive spores. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These spores are the next generation of fungus. They need to get into another fly to grow. But why would a healthy fly hang out around a dead one? Mullens found that in dairy and poultry farms, infected houseflies died at dusk on the cool end of the barn — the fungus prefers lower temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, living flies would warm themselves in the first rays of sun, which fall right where the flies died the night before. The fungus had spent all night shooting out spores. Come morning, those spores started shooting out secondary spores that infected the living flies that had come to warm up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precision of the fungus’ clock was “very neat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These flies are in the wrong place at the wrong time: They could get infected with spores shooting out from the infected dead fly. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists believe that getting the fly to point its wings up helps the fungus spread its spores. If the fly climbed high enough, the spores might be dispersed by the wind. And there’s an added bonus for the fungus in keeping the fly’s wings up. In houseflies, scientists have observed males mating with infected female cadavers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fat females are especially attractive for the males,” said Mullens. Those males carry off some spores and spread them around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nature, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em> can be lethal to large groups of flies in the fall, when the cooler temperatures that the fungus prefers have started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry — the fungus doesn’t hurt humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unlikely that a similar fungus could zombify people,” said Elya. “Not only do we run much warmer than an average fly, we can control our bodily temperature to kill invaders. We also have an adaptive immune system, which is good at amplifying responses to specific invaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullens and other researchers tried to figure out how the fungus might be put to use as a biological control for flies in homes and farms. But the spores are short-lived, fragile and difficult to grow in the lab, which has made it impossible to bottle them up and use them as an insecticide. And a housefly lives about as long as it takes the fungus to incubate anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could this fungus kill the pesky flies in your kitchen? Researchers have tried to harness the fungus as a biological control, but its spores — which have coated this petri dish in a lab at Harvard — are short-lived and fragile. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more efficient ways to kill flies, and faster,” said Mullens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, researchers are imagining ways to put this fly-killer to work for humans. One possible scenario would be to plant the cadavers of fungus-covered flies in a farm while they’re still spewing spores and attracting living flies to them with foul-smelling bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that’s a horror-movie plot if there ever was one.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Something is growing inside that fly in your kitchen, and it kills only at dusk.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848214,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1129},"headData":{"title":"This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies | KQED","description":"Something is growing inside that fly in your kitchen, and it kills only at dusk.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/C2Jw5ib-s_I","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1949314/this-killer-fungus-turns-flies-into-zombies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some of the scariest monsters are the ones that grow inside another being and take over its body. Think of the movie “Alien,” where the reptile-like space creature pulsates and grows inside its victim, then explodes out of his chest in a terrifying climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monster might be fictional, but scientists are studying a fungus that’s horrifyingly real — at least for the flies it invades, turns into a zombie-like state and kills in order to reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, it’s a nightmare for the flies,” said entomologist \u003ca href=\"https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/bradley-mullens\">Brad Mullens\u003c/a>, who retired from UC Riverside after studying the fungus for 20 years. “If their little brains could comprehend it, they would live in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fungus is known by its scientific name, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em>, which means “fly destroyer.” It lives off houseflies and fruit flies, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crazy system,” said \u003ca href=\"https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/carolyn-elya\">Carolyn Elya\u003c/a>, a researcher at Harvard. While getting her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, she described what a fungus infection looks like in fruit flies and she continues to study their interaction. “The fungus only kills at dusk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White fungus emerges from a dead fruit fly’s abdomen. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a killer puppeteer, the fungus follows a precise clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few days after picking up a fungal spore, an infected fruit fly seems normal. But inside its body, the fungus is growing, taking over the fly’s brain and central nervous system and feeding on its fat body, the tissue where insects store nutrients and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dusk on the fourth or fifth day, the fruit fly stops flying and starts behaving erratically, for example climbing up and down the toothpicks that Elya puts into the vials where she keeps the infected insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the fly climbs to the top of the toothpick, a behavior Elya and other scientists refer to as “summiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly climbs to the top of a toothpick shortly before dying, a behavior scientists call “summiting.” \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the fungus is tapping into the flies’ gravitactic circuitry — neurons that make them climb,” Elya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual twist, the fly then extends its mouthpart down, and some liquid drips out and glues the fly to the surface it’s standing on. Researchers believe the droplets are made up of fungus, though Elya said it’s not clear whether the fungus is inherently adhesive or makes itself sticky so that the fly gets stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949569\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly extends its mouthpart towards the tip of a toothpick it climbed up. Liquid on their mouthparts glues infected flies to the surface they’re standing on. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the next 10 or so minutes, the fly’s wings ascend in small bursts until they’re pointing straight up. Sometimes this happens more quickly. And then it dies frozen in this lifelike pose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly’s wings shoot up shortly before it dies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, white spongy fungus oozes out of its abdomen. When the fungus has all come out, the fly looks as if a cotton ball had grown over its lower body. This white goo is made up of hundreds of tiny lollipop-shaped protrusions called conidiophores, which each launch a microscopic bell-shaped spore at high speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fungus pushes through the soft cuticle in between the fly’s exoskeleton to shoot out its reproductive spores. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These spores are the next generation of fungus. They need to get into another fly to grow. But why would a healthy fly hang out around a dead one? Mullens found that in dairy and poultry farms, infected houseflies died at dusk on the cool end of the barn — the fungus prefers lower temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, living flies would warm themselves in the first rays of sun, which fall right where the flies died the night before. The fungus had spent all night shooting out spores. Come morning, those spores started shooting out secondary spores that infected the living flies that had come to warm up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precision of the fungus’ clock was “very neat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These flies are in the wrong place at the wrong time: They could get infected with spores shooting out from the infected dead fly. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists believe that getting the fly to point its wings up helps the fungus spread its spores. If the fly climbed high enough, the spores might be dispersed by the wind. And there’s an added bonus for the fungus in keeping the fly’s wings up. In houseflies, scientists have observed males mating with infected female cadavers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fat females are especially attractive for the males,” said Mullens. Those males carry off some spores and spread them around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nature, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em> can be lethal to large groups of flies in the fall, when the cooler temperatures that the fungus prefers have started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry — the fungus doesn’t hurt humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unlikely that a similar fungus could zombify people,” said Elya. “Not only do we run much warmer than an average fly, we can control our bodily temperature to kill invaders. We also have an adaptive immune system, which is good at amplifying responses to specific invaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullens and other researchers tried to figure out how the fungus might be put to use as a biological control for flies in homes and farms. But the spores are short-lived, fragile and difficult to grow in the lab, which has made it impossible to bottle them up and use them as an insecticide. And a housefly lives about as long as it takes the fungus to incubate anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could this fungus kill the pesky flies in your kitchen? Researchers have tried to harness the fungus as a biological control, but its spores — which have coated this petri dish in a lab at Harvard — are short-lived and fragile. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more efficient ways to kill flies, and faster,” said Mullens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, researchers are imagining ways to put this fly-killer to work for humans. One possible scenario would be to plant the cadavers of fungus-covered flies in a farm while they’re still spewing spores and attracting living flies to them with foul-smelling bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that’s a horror-movie plot if there ever was one.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1949314/this-killer-fungus-turns-flies-into-zombies","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_2874","science_30","science_86"],"tags":["science_1970","science_3315","science_2544"],"featImg":"science_1949550","label":"science_1935"},"science_1949619":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1949619","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1949619","score":null,"sort":[1571683799000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"many-headed-slime-gets-its-own-exhibit-at-paris-zoo","title":"'Many-Headed Slime' Gets Its Own Exhibit at Paris Zoo","publishDate":1571683799,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Many-Headed Slime’ Gets Its Own Exhibit at Paris Zoo | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A brainless, bright-yellow organism that can solve mazes and heal itself is making its debut at a Paris zoo this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least so far, “the blob” is more benevolent than the ravenous star of its 1950s sci-fi film classic namesake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parczoologiquedeparis.fr/en/media-video/4092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time-lapsed videos\u003c/a> of the blob show a slimy organism rapidly multiplying in size. How fast exactly? The blob can sprint about \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zoodeparis/status/1182661446750167041?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four centimeters per hour\u003c/a>, according to the Paris Zoological Park\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blob is neither animal, nor plant. And although \u003cem>Physarum polycephalum\u003c/em> — Latin for “many-headed slime” — is classified as a type of slime mold, scientists now consider the creature unrelated to fungi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This species has been around for as many as 1 billion years, but its mysterious nature has attracted new fame thanks to the unveiling on Saturday of an exhibit dedicated to the single-cell organism at the Paris zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite having no mouth or stomach, the blob can detect and digest food. Oats, in particular, are a blob delicacy. It also boasts more than 700 different sexual types, a reproductive strategy to prevent the organisms from mating with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slime mold, which lacks a nervous system, is capable of advanced decision-making, learning and long-term memory storage, according to Audrey Dussutour, who studies unicellular organisms with the French National Center for Scientific Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can find its way through a maze, it can construct efficient transport networks, sometimes better than us, actually,” Dussutour said in an interview with NPR’s \u003cem>Weekend Edition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/ride-slime-mold-express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one remarkable experiment\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Science\u003c/em>, researchers in Japan found that a slime mold managed to configure itself into a near-replica of the meticulously designed Tokyo rail system when introduced with an oat-flake model of Tokyo and its surrounding metropolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut the blob into two, and it can regenerate itself within two minutes,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zoodeparis/status/1183667598472466432?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> according to the zoo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through fusion, two blobs with the same genetic makeup can merge into one organism, and share their respective knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its enemies include light, drought, salt and caffeine. But, Dussutour said, “If you train a slime mold to ignore caffeine for example, it can transfer this knowledge to another clone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Will Jarvis and Melissa Gray produced and edited the audio version of the story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Is it an animal? A type of fungi? No, it's \"the blob.\" The amorphous \"slime mold\" may not have a nervous system, but it's the star of a new exhibit at the Paris zoo.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848218,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":394},"headData":{"title":"'Many-Headed Slime' Gets Its Own Exhibit at Paris Zoo | KQED","description":"Is it an animal? A type of fungi? 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How fast exactly? The blob can sprint about \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zoodeparis/status/1182661446750167041?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four centimeters per hour\u003c/a>, according to the Paris Zoological Park\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blob is neither animal, nor plant. And although \u003cem>Physarum polycephalum\u003c/em> — Latin for “many-headed slime” — is classified as a type of slime mold, scientists now consider the creature unrelated to fungi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This species has been around for as many as 1 billion years, but its mysterious nature has attracted new fame thanks to the unveiling on Saturday of an exhibit dedicated to the single-cell organism at the Paris zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite having no mouth or stomach, the blob can detect and digest food. Oats, in particular, are a blob delicacy. It also boasts more than 700 different sexual types, a reproductive strategy to prevent the organisms from mating with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slime mold, which lacks a nervous system, is capable of advanced decision-making, learning and long-term memory storage, according to Audrey Dussutour, who studies unicellular organisms with the French National Center for Scientific Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can find its way through a maze, it can construct efficient transport networks, sometimes better than us, actually,” Dussutour said in an interview with NPR’s \u003cem>Weekend Edition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/ride-slime-mold-express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one remarkable experiment\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Science\u003c/em>, researchers in Japan found that a slime mold managed to configure itself into a near-replica of the meticulously designed Tokyo rail system when introduced with an oat-flake model of Tokyo and its surrounding metropolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut the blob into two, and it can regenerate itself within two minutes,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zoodeparis/status/1183667598472466432?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> according to the zoo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through fusion, two blobs with the same genetic makeup can merge into one organism, and share their respective knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its enemies include light, drought, salt and caffeine. But, Dussutour said, “If you train a slime mold to ignore caffeine for example, it can transfer this knowledge to another clone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Will Jarvis and Melissa Gray produced and edited the audio version of the story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1949619/many-headed-slime-gets-its-own-exhibit-at-paris-zoo","authors":["byline_science_1949619"],"categories":["science_2874","science_30","science_32","science_35","science_37","science_16","science_40"],"tags":["science_2544","science_3838"],"featImg":"science_1949620","label":"source_science_1949619"},"science_1944647":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1944647","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1944647","score":null,"sort":[1562376081000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fungus-thats-killed-millions-of-bats-detected-in-california","title":"Fungus That's Killed Millions of Bats Detected in California","publishDate":1562376081,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Fungus That’s Killed Millions of Bats Detected in California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first time, an invasive fungus that causes a deadly bat disease has been detected in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome, one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://msphere.asm.org/content/1/4/e00148-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consequential\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wildlife diseases of modern times, has killed more than 6 million bats in North America since it was first discovered in New York in 2006. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disease, which has devastated bat populations in Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere in the Northeast, is caused by the fungus \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pseudogymnoascus destructans\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It is not known to be harmful to people or common house pets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Environmental officials discovered low levels of the fungus in samples collected from little brown bats, a common hibernating species, in the Plumas County town of Chester, about 65 miles northeast of Chico. Four bats have been found with traces of the fungus, one in 2018 and three this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(W)e decided, two years in a row, even though they are low-level detection, we ought to call it. The fungus is here,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Osborn, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All-Body Athlete’s Foot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome is a fungal infection that grows on the skin of bats while they hibernate. Osborn describes it as an “all-body case of athlete’s foot.” The infection irritates the bats, waking them from what should be a deep slumber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They then use up their stored energy by grooming themselves. Because it’s winter, most of the bugs and insects that make up their food supply aren’t available, and the bats can’t replenish themselves. They die of starvation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It is not pleasant,” said Osborn. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The disease is extremely lethal where bats hibernate deeply for a long period in the winter.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the discovery of DNA evidence of the fungus is troubling, officials have yet to document a case of actual white-nose syndrome in California bats, or an indication that the fungus itself is affecting the animals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what we would expect to see in terms of how it starts to show up, at low levels with spring detections,” said Alice Chung-MacCoubrey, a bat biologist with the National Park Service. “It’s not surprising, it was just disappointing because everybody wants to keep getting negative results from their surveillance as long as possible.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Hibernation Patterns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How the fungus will impact California bats is unclear. In caves, mines and other hibernaculum in the Northeast, the disease has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/science/25bats.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped out \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearly the entire population of some colonies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But northeastern bats hibernate congregated together in large roosts of thousands or even tens of thousands. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The suspicion is that California bats hibernate in much smaller roosts dispersed across larger areas, but officials know much less about bat hibernation patterns in the state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The big question we’re asking,” said Bronwyn Hogan, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is “‘what does this mean for the fungus spreading and development of the disease? We don’t have a great idea about that yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Hogan said, officials are especially concerned about the fate of little brown bats, which are common in California, as well as about other hibernating species. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome has been confirmed in 33 states, and the fungus in an additional five including California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists and wildlife managers are searching for treatments and solutions that could be used to help infected bats, but Hogan said they have yet to find a workable solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Officials on the Lookout\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the fungus has been officially detected, wildlife officials are expanding their bat surveillance across Northern California. They will begin a baseline study of bat populations later this summer, using acoustic monitoring devices and a count of bats as they leave their roosts. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If the disease does start impacting the local bat populations in subsequent years, we should see a drop-off in numbers,” Osborn said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officials will also attach small radio transmitters to the backs of some bats in order to track their movements across the landscape, with the aim of learning their hibernation spots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is an old question in the bat research community here,” said Chung-MacCoubrey. “Those who study and manage bats are interested in knowing where our western bat species are hibernating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is leading a multiagency scientific research group called the California White-Nose Syndrome Steering Committee, which is studying how the disease affects the animals. The group also includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey, among other agencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Osborn said he hopes the news will raise people’s awareness of the disease, especially in colder parts of California like the higher elevations of the Sierra, where the fungus might thrive. He says people should watch for bats, either dead or active, in the winter. “That’s a sign that maybe the disease hit a local population,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A robust network of people looking for unusual bat behavior—\u003cbr>\nwhat Osborn calls a “passive surveillance network” — will increase the chances of detecting the first cases of white-nose syndrome if and when they occur.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The fungus causing a disease called white-nose syndrome, which has devastated bat populations in the Northeast, has been discovered in low levels in a handful of bats in Plumas County.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848532,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":914},"headData":{"title":"Fungus That's Killed Millions of Bats Detected in California | KQED","description":"The fungus causing a disease called white-nose syndrome, which has devastated bat populations in the Northeast, has been discovered in low levels in a handful of bats in Plumas County.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bat Fungus","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1944647/fungus-thats-killed-millions-of-bats-detected-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first time, an invasive fungus that causes a deadly bat disease has been detected in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome, one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://msphere.asm.org/content/1/4/e00148-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consequential\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wildlife diseases of modern times, has killed more than 6 million bats in North America since it was first discovered in New York in 2006. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disease, which has devastated bat populations in Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere in the Northeast, is caused by the fungus \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pseudogymnoascus destructans\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It is not known to be harmful to people or common house pets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Environmental officials discovered low levels of the fungus in samples collected from little brown bats, a common hibernating species, in the Plumas County town of Chester, about 65 miles northeast of Chico. Four bats have been found with traces of the fungus, one in 2018 and three this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(W)e decided, two years in a row, even though they are low-level detection, we ought to call it. The fungus is here,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Osborn, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All-Body Athlete’s Foot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome is a fungal infection that grows on the skin of bats while they hibernate. Osborn describes it as an “all-body case of athlete’s foot.” The infection irritates the bats, waking them from what should be a deep slumber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They then use up their stored energy by grooming themselves. Because it’s winter, most of the bugs and insects that make up their food supply aren’t available, and the bats can’t replenish themselves. They die of starvation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It is not pleasant,” said Osborn. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The disease is extremely lethal where bats hibernate deeply for a long period in the winter.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the discovery of DNA evidence of the fungus is troubling, officials have yet to document a case of actual white-nose syndrome in California bats, or an indication that the fungus itself is affecting the animals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what we would expect to see in terms of how it starts to show up, at low levels with spring detections,” said Alice Chung-MacCoubrey, a bat biologist with the National Park Service. “It’s not surprising, it was just disappointing because everybody wants to keep getting negative results from their surveillance as long as possible.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Hibernation Patterns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How the fungus will impact California bats is unclear. In caves, mines and other hibernaculum in the Northeast, the disease has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/science/25bats.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped out \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearly the entire population of some colonies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But northeastern bats hibernate congregated together in large roosts of thousands or even tens of thousands. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The suspicion is that California bats hibernate in much smaller roosts dispersed across larger areas, but officials know much less about bat hibernation patterns in the state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The big question we’re asking,” said Bronwyn Hogan, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is “‘what does this mean for the fungus spreading and development of the disease? We don’t have a great idea about that yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Hogan said, officials are especially concerned about the fate of little brown bats, which are common in California, as well as about other hibernating species. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">White-nose syndrome has been confirmed in 33 states, and the fungus in an additional five including California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists and wildlife managers are searching for treatments and solutions that could be used to help infected bats, but Hogan said they have yet to find a workable solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Officials on the Lookout\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the fungus has been officially detected, wildlife officials are expanding their bat surveillance across Northern California. They will begin a baseline study of bat populations later this summer, using acoustic monitoring devices and a count of bats as they leave their roosts. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If the disease does start impacting the local bat populations in subsequent years, we should see a drop-off in numbers,” Osborn said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officials will also attach small radio transmitters to the backs of some bats in order to track their movements across the landscape, with the aim of learning their hibernation spots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is an old question in the bat research community here,” said Chung-MacCoubrey. “Those who study and manage bats are interested in knowing where our western bat species are hibernating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is leading a multiagency scientific research group called the California White-Nose Syndrome Steering Committee, which is studying how the disease affects the animals. The group also includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey, among other agencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Osborn said he hopes the news will raise people’s awareness of the disease, especially in colder parts of California like the higher elevations of the Sierra, where the fungus might thrive. He says people should watch for bats, either dead or active, in the winter. “That’s a sign that maybe the disease hit a local population,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A robust network of people looking for unusual bat behavior—\u003cbr>\nwhat Osborn calls a “passive surveillance network” — will increase the chances of detecting the first cases of white-nose syndrome if and when they occur.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1944647/fungus-thats-killed-millions-of-bats-detected-in-california","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_3840","science_3370","science_2544","science_3830"],"featImg":"science_1944828","label":"source_science_1944647"},"science_523936":{"type":"posts","id":"science_523936","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"523936","score":null,"sort":[1456236044000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it","title":"This Mushroom Starts Killing You Before You Even Realize It","publishDate":1456236044,"format":"video","headTitle":"This Mushroom Starts Killing You Before You Even Realize It | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1935,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]Donna Davis thought she had hit the jackpot with the two bags of mushrooms she collected in the woods of Sonoma County’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a>. Instead, she ended up in the hospital, facing the possibility of a liver transplant, after mistakenly eating a poisonous mushroom known as the death cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2015, five people died in California and 57 became sick after eating the unassuming greenish mushrooms, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpoison.org/\">California Poison Control System\u003c/a>. One mushroom cap is enough to kill a human being, and they’re also poisonous to dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dogs die in droves,” said Debbie Viess, of the \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/amanita_phalloides.html\">Bay Area Mycological Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this year’s mushroom foraging season well underway, health workers and experts are warning aficionados to be careful of death caps, which are abundant in California and can easily be confused for other edible mushrooms, growing mainly under coast live oaks. And it’s not just amateurs who mistake death caps for edible mushrooms like \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/coccora.html\">coccora\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://nrcmushroom.org/mushroomprofile/Paddy_Straw_Mushroom/paddy_straw_mushroom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paddy straws\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524117\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mature death caps in West Marin’s Point Reyes National Seashore in December.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mature death caps in West Marin’s Point Reyes National Seashore in December. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen expert mycologists arguing good-naturedly about whether a mushroom they were looking at was the deadly one,” said Dr. Kent Olson, co-medical director of the San Francisco Division of the California Poison Control System. “At certain stages of development the mushrooms can be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Donna Davis, a 55-year-old life coach from San Francisco. On a misty December day in 2014, she and her boyfriend, Kent Anderson, headed into Salt Point State Park to collect mushrooms they could cook and eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forest was just damp and perfect,” said Davis. “You could smell the dirt, you could smell the mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524114\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Davis, of San Francisco, was poisoned in 2014 after eating a death cap mushroom by mistake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Davis, of San Francisco, was poisoned in 2014 after eating a death cap mushroom by mistake. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis filled two cloth bags with chanterelles, matsutakes and hedgehog mushrooms, all sought-after edible species. Later, she and Anderson, a more experienced mushroom forager than Davis, spread the mushrooms out on newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went through all of the mushrooms. And Kent found a couple of pieces that didn’t look right and he threw them out,” said Davis. “But I felt confident that the rest were all fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hindsight, Davis thinks that she picked some young death cap mushrooms, which have a rounded yellowish-green cap, instead of picking hedgehog mushrooms, which are yellow and rounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believe that my mistake was picking the mushroom before it was fully formed,” said Davis. “It’s much more difficult to identify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524111\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Young death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hedgehog and death cap mushrooms are fairly different-looking. While hedgehogs don’t have any gills—ribs under the mushroom cap—death caps do have gills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is easy for folks to make ID mistakes,” said Viess, “which is why I encourage strong caution for beginners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mature \u003ca href=\"http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita%20phalloides\">death cap mushrooms\u003c/a> are “big, smooth and an olive green color,” said Cat Adams, a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley who studies the mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you pull the adult mushroom out of the ground, it has “a cute little cup that holds it up,” said Adams. “And it definitely smells like food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524110\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death caps and mushrooms related to them have a piece of cup-shaped tissue at the bottom called a volva. This sac only becomes visible after the mushroom is completely pulled out of the soil. The volva can be wrapped tightly around the bottom of the mushroom, as in this photo, or hang more loosely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death caps and mushrooms related to them have a piece of cup-shaped tissue at the bottom called a volva. This sac only becomes visible after the mushroom is completely pulled out of the soil. The volva can be wrapped tightly around the bottom of the mushroom, as in this photo, or hang more loosely. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524109\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of tissue called the annulus helps identify the death cap mushroom. The annulus can be shaped like a little skirt, or like a ring, as in this photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piece of tissue called the annulus helps identify the death cap mushroom. The annulus can be shaped like a little skirt, or like a ring, as in this photo. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524116\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death cap mushrooms have gills from which they launch spores in order to reproduce.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death cap mushrooms have gills from which they launch spores in order to reproduce. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her foraging trip in Sonoma, Davis made two pots of mushroom soup for herself, her boyfriend and a group of their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was amazingly delicious,” Davis said. So good, in fact, that she had two bowls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olson, of California Poison Control, said that for the first six to 12 hours after they eat the mushroom, victims of the death cap feel fine. During that time, a toxin in the mushroom is quietly injuring their liver cells. Patients then develop severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can become very rapidly dehydrated from the fluid losses,” said Olson. Dehydration can cause kidney failure, which compounds the damage to the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The afternoon after she ate the mushroom soup contaminated with death caps, Davis felt exhausted and started throwing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept for three days,” said Davis. “I was kind of in and out of it, just drinking water and not being able to really hold anything down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she dragged herself to a mirror and saw she had turned yellow. That’s when she decided she should go to the hospital right away. Doctors put her on intravenous fluids. They also pumped her stomach full of activated charcoal to help absorb the poison out of her body, although some doctors question the usefulness of this treatment when many hours have elapsed since the poisoning occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most severe cases, the only way to save the patient is a liver transplant, said Olson. Davis didn’t end up needing one and went home before Christmas. But two people died from death cap poisoning in California in 2014. Last year, nine poisonings were reported to the California Poison Control System and all the victims survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Todd Mitchell, at Dominican Hospital, in Santa Cruz, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00915681\">conducting tests of the drug silibinin\u003c/a> to treat death cap poisoning. The drug, which is made out of common milk thistle and delivered intravenously, can protect a patient’s liver and make a transplant unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said he has treated 78 patients since 2007 and hopes to receive approval for silibinin from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/\">Food and Drug Administration\u003c/a> by 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After temporarily losing her taste for mushrooms, Davis is looking forward to foraging again. But she said she’ll be much more cautious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to collect all that I see,” she said. “I’m good with just, you know, a handful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524115\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"University of Wisconsin, Madison, biologist Anne Pringle took samples of death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California, in December. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Wisconsin, Madison, biologist Anne Pringle took samples of death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California, in December. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Biologist Anne Pringle, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, put slices of death cap mushrooms into a test tube at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biologist Anne Pringle, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, put slices of death cap mushrooms into a test tube at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts advise that even experienced mushroom foragers proceed with caution. Death caps are spreading in California, but not on the East Coast, said biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.botany.wisc.edu/pringlelab/\">Anne Pringle\u003c/a>, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This could spell trouble for visitors to California who aren’t familiar with the deadly mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assume nothing, and learn for several seasons before you eat any wild mushrooms,” said Viess, of the Bay Area Mycological Society. “Use good, regional books, find a mentor, and have your initial IDs checked by more knowledgeable and trusted identifiers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2015, German authorities reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/germany-attributes-mushroom-poisonings-foraging-refugees\">the death of a 16-year-old refugee\u003c/a>, one of 40 to become sick after eating death cap mushrooms they had foraged in Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, scientists have found that the death cap has been spreading throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pringle discovered that the mushroom arrived in California from Europe by genetically testing death cap samples collected in the 1930s and 40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first Californian collections that we confirmed as \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em>,” said Pringle, using the mushroom’s scientific name, “were made from the Del Monte Hotel—now the Naval Postgraduate School—in Monterey, and on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938 and in 1945.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pringle said that death caps likely snuck into California from Europe attached to the roots of imported plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524113\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Under the microscope, white filaments of death cap fungus are seen wrapped around a tree’s thin, pink root tips. In California, death cap fungi feed on the sugars of coast live oaks and pines and give them nutrients in exchange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the microscope, white filaments of death cap fungus are seen wrapped around a tree’s thin, pink root tips. In California, death cap fungi feed on the sugars of coast live oaks and pines and give them nutrients in exchange. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As many fungi do, death caps live off of trees, in what’s called a mycorrhizal relationship. They send filaments deep down to the trees’ roots, where they attach to the very thin root tips. The fungi absorb sugars from the trees and give them nutrients in exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re mutually dependent,” said Viess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, death caps have established a very successful relationship with coast live oaks, said Pringle. Death caps have also been found under pines, and in Yosemite Valley under black oaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through genetic testing, Pringle is trying to determine how long death caps live. If she finds that they’re short-lived, then it might be enough to pluck the mushrooms to prevent them from spreading their spores through the air and reproducing. This would eventually kill off the fungus filaments underground as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d have to do it intensively and do it when they’re young,” said Pringle. “It could be easy for someone’s backyard or a daycare center.” In fact, death caps can be found year-round in gardens that are regularly irrigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524112\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death caps under a tree at the University of California Botanical Garden, in Berkeley, California. Death caps are popping up in California year-round in irrigated areas like gardens. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death caps under a tree at the University of California Botanical Garden, in Berkeley, California. Death caps are popping up in California year-round in irrigated areas like gardens. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing scientists don’t know much about is why death caps have evolved to be so poisonous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are they trying to poison?” asked biologist Tom Bruns, from the University of California, Berkeley. “We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Adams, who is studying for her PhD in Bruns’ lab, is testing out a hypothesis. She thinks that the death cap’s toxins might help it stay free of tiny deadly fungi that would destroy its cap before it had a chance to release spores and reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fungi protecting itself from other fungi,” said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A deadly mushroom is spreading in California. Can scientists find a way to stop it?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704930590,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1795},"headData":{"title":"This Mushroom Starts Killing You Before You Even Realize It | KQED","description":"A deadly mushroom is spreading in California. Can scientists find a way to stop it?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/bl9aCH2QaQY","sticky":false,"path":"/science/523936/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Donna Davis thought she had hit the jackpot with the two bags of mushrooms she collected in the woods of Sonoma County’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a>. Instead, she ended up in the hospital, facing the possibility of a liver transplant, after mistakenly eating a poisonous mushroom known as the death cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2015, five people died in California and 57 became sick after eating the unassuming greenish mushrooms, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpoison.org/\">California Poison Control System\u003c/a>. One mushroom cap is enough to kill a human being, and they’re also poisonous to dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dogs die in droves,” said Debbie Viess, of the \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/amanita_phalloides.html\">Bay Area Mycological Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this year’s mushroom foraging season well underway, health workers and experts are warning aficionados to be careful of death caps, which are abundant in California and can easily be confused for other edible mushrooms, growing mainly under coast live oaks. And it’s not just amateurs who mistake death caps for edible mushrooms like \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/coccora.html\">coccora\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://nrcmushroom.org/mushroomprofile/Paddy_Straw_Mushroom/paddy_straw_mushroom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paddy straws\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524117\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mature death caps in West Marin’s Point Reyes National Seashore in December.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_mushrooms_mature-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mature death caps in West Marin’s Point Reyes National Seashore in December. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen expert mycologists arguing good-naturedly about whether a mushroom they were looking at was the deadly one,” said Dr. Kent Olson, co-medical director of the San Francisco Division of the California Poison Control System. “At certain stages of development the mushrooms can be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Donna Davis, a 55-year-old life coach from San Francisco. On a misty December day in 2014, she and her boyfriend, Kent Anderson, headed into Salt Point State Park to collect mushrooms they could cook and eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forest was just damp and perfect,” said Davis. “You could smell the dirt, you could smell the mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524114\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Davis, of San Francisco, was poisoned in 2014 after eating a death cap mushroom by mistake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Donna_Davis-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Davis, of San Francisco, was poisoned in 2014 after eating a death cap mushroom by mistake. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis filled two cloth bags with chanterelles, matsutakes and hedgehog mushrooms, all sought-after edible species. Later, she and Anderson, a more experienced mushroom forager than Davis, spread the mushrooms out on newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went through all of the mushrooms. And Kent found a couple of pieces that didn’t look right and he threw them out,” said Davis. “But I felt confident that the rest were all fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hindsight, Davis thinks that she picked some young death cap mushrooms, which have a rounded yellowish-green cap, instead of picking hedgehog mushrooms, which are yellow and rounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believe that my mistake was picking the mushroom before it was fully formed,” said Davis. “It’s much more difficult to identify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524111\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Young death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAPS_YOUNG-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hedgehog and death cap mushrooms are fairly different-looking. While hedgehogs don’t have any gills—ribs under the mushroom cap—death caps do have gills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is easy for folks to make ID mistakes,” said Viess, “which is why I encourage strong caution for beginners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mature \u003ca href=\"http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita%20phalloides\">death cap mushrooms\u003c/a> are “big, smooth and an olive green color,” said Cat Adams, a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley who studies the mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you pull the adult mushroom out of the ground, it has “a cute little cup that holds it up,” said Adams. “And it definitely smells like food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524110\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death caps and mushrooms related to them have a piece of cup-shaped tissue at the bottom called a volva. This sac only becomes visible after the mushroom is completely pulled out of the soil. The volva can be wrapped tightly around the bottom of the mushroom, as in this photo, or hang more loosely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_VOLVA-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death caps and mushrooms related to them have a piece of cup-shaped tissue at the bottom called a volva. This sac only becomes visible after the mushroom is completely pulled out of the soil. The volva can be wrapped tightly around the bottom of the mushroom, as in this photo, or hang more loosely. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524109\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of tissue called the annulus helps identify the death cap mushroom. The annulus can be shaped like a little skirt, or like a ring, as in this photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_DEATH_CAP_ANNULUS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piece of tissue called the annulus helps identify the death cap mushroom. The annulus can be shaped like a little skirt, or like a ring, as in this photo. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524116\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death cap mushrooms have gills from which they launch spores in order to reproduce.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_cap_gills-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death cap mushrooms have gills from which they launch spores in order to reproduce. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her foraging trip in Sonoma, Davis made two pots of mushroom soup for herself, her boyfriend and a group of their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was amazingly delicious,” Davis said. So good, in fact, that she had two bowls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olson, of California Poison Control, said that for the first six to 12 hours after they eat the mushroom, victims of the death cap feel fine. During that time, a toxin in the mushroom is quietly injuring their liver cells. Patients then develop severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can become very rapidly dehydrated from the fluid losses,” said Olson. Dehydration can cause kidney failure, which compounds the damage to the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The afternoon after she ate the mushroom soup contaminated with death caps, Davis felt exhausted and started throwing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept for three days,” said Davis. “I was kind of in and out of it, just drinking water and not being able to really hold anything down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she dragged herself to a mirror and saw she had turned yellow. That’s when she decided she should go to the hospital right away. Doctors put her on intravenous fluids. They also pumped her stomach full of activated charcoal to help absorb the poison out of her body, although some doctors question the usefulness of this treatment when many hours have elapsed since the poisoning occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most severe cases, the only way to save the patient is a liver transplant, said Olson. Davis didn’t end up needing one and went home before Christmas. But two people died from death cap poisoning in California in 2014. Last year, nine poisonings were reported to the California Poison Control System and all the victims survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Todd Mitchell, at Dominican Hospital, in Santa Cruz, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00915681\">conducting tests of the drug silibinin\u003c/a> to treat death cap poisoning. The drug, which is made out of common milk thistle and delivered intravenously, can protect a patient’s liver and make a transplant unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said he has treated 78 patients since 2007 and hopes to receive approval for silibinin from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/\">Food and Drug Administration\u003c/a> by 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After temporarily losing her taste for mushrooms, Davis is looking forward to foraging again. But she said she’ll be much more cautious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to collect all that I see,” she said. “I’m good with just, you know, a handful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524115\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"University of Wisconsin, Madison, biologist Anne Pringle took samples of death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California, in December. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Anne_Pringle_02-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Wisconsin, Madison, biologist Anne Pringle took samples of death cap mushrooms at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California, in December. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Biologist Anne Pringle, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, put slices of death cap mushrooms into a test tube at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/Death_caps_in_test_tube-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biologist Anne Pringle, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, put slices of death cap mushrooms into a test tube at Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts advise that even experienced mushroom foragers proceed with caution. Death caps are spreading in California, but not on the East Coast, said biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.botany.wisc.edu/pringlelab/\">Anne Pringle\u003c/a>, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This could spell trouble for visitors to California who aren’t familiar with the deadly mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assume nothing, and learn for several seasons before you eat any wild mushrooms,” said Viess, of the Bay Area Mycological Society. “Use good, regional books, find a mentor, and have your initial IDs checked by more knowledgeable and trusted identifiers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2015, German authorities reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/germany-attributes-mushroom-poisonings-foraging-refugees\">the death of a 16-year-old refugee\u003c/a>, one of 40 to become sick after eating death cap mushrooms they had foraged in Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, scientists have found that the death cap has been spreading throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pringle discovered that the mushroom arrived in California from Europe by genetically testing death cap samples collected in the 1930s and 40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first Californian collections that we confirmed as \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em>,” said Pringle, using the mushroom’s scientific name, “were made from the Del Monte Hotel—now the Naval Postgraduate School—in Monterey, and on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938 and in 1945.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pringle said that death caps likely snuck into California from Europe attached to the roots of imported plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524113\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Under the microscope, white filaments of death cap fungus are seen wrapped around a tree’s thin, pink root tips. In California, death cap fungi feed on the sugars of coast live oaks and pines and give them nutrients in exchange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_WHITE_FUNGUS_ENVELOPS_PINK_ROOT_TIPS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the microscope, white filaments of death cap fungus are seen wrapped around a tree’s thin, pink root tips. In California, death cap fungi feed on the sugars of coast live oaks and pines and give them nutrients in exchange. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As many fungi do, death caps live off of trees, in what’s called a mycorrhizal relationship. They send filaments deep down to the trees’ roots, where they attach to the very thin root tips. The fungi absorb sugars from the trees and give them nutrients in exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re mutually dependent,” said Viess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, death caps have established a very successful relationship with coast live oaks, said Pringle. Death caps have also been found under pines, and in Yosemite Valley under black oaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through genetic testing, Pringle is trying to determine how long death caps live. If she finds that they’re short-lived, then it might be enough to pluck the mushrooms to prevent them from spreading their spores through the air and reproducing. This would eventually kill off the fungus filaments underground as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d have to do it intensively and do it when they’re young,” said Pringle. “It could be easy for someone’s backyard or a daycare center.” In fact, death caps can be found year-round in gardens that are regularly irrigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_524112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524112\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Death caps under a tree at the University of California Botanical Garden, in Berkeley, California. Death caps are popping up in California year-round in irrigated areas like gardens. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/02/DL304Deadly_Mushroom_TWO_DEATH_CAPS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death caps under a tree at the University of California Botanical Garden, in Berkeley, California. Death caps are popping up in California year-round in irrigated areas like gardens. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing scientists don’t know much about is why death caps have evolved to be so poisonous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are they trying to poison?” asked biologist Tom Bruns, from the University of California, Berkeley. “We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Adams, who is studying for her PhD in Bruns’ lab, is testing out a hypothesis. She thinks that the death cap’s toxins might help it stay free of tiny deadly fungi that would destroy its cap before it had a chance to release spores and reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fungi protecting itself from other fungi,” said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/523936/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_30","science_39","science_86"],"tags":["science_1970","science_2544"],"featImg":"science_524293","label":"science_1935"},"science_154060":{"type":"posts","id":"science_154060","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"154060","score":null,"sort":[1438696821000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"killer-fungus-could-devour-californias-salamanders","title":"Killer Fungus Could ‘Devour’ California’s Salamanders","publishDate":1438696821,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Killer Fungus Could ‘Devour’ California’s Salamanders | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>If salamanders could worry, they would already have a long list of woes, including losing their homes to deforestation, or becoming an avian snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a newly discovered pathogen could easily trump anything on that list. It’s a fungus whose scientific name, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://amphibiaweb.org:8000/chytrid/Bsal.html\">Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, literally means “salamander-devouring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the fungus, which scientists call Bsal, has only been found in Europe and Asia. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aab1052\">a study\u003c/a> published last week in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/\">Science\u003c/a> suggests that the international pet trade will most likely spread it to North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very new pathogen, so we don’t know much about it,” says Tiffany Yap, a graduate student at UCLA who led the study in collaboration with amphibian experts from San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley. “What we do know is that it could be incredibly devastating to the salamanders here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, the United States imports hundreds of thousands of salamanders as pets. And the vast majority of these animals could potentially be carrying Bsal. The scientists warn that an immediate ban on salamander trade is necessary to prevent the fungus from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until we can tell that salamanders coming in from other places are free of Bsal, it seems like a logical and important step to prevent them from entering,” says Yap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong class=\"size-full wp-image-154064\">Something Wicked This Way Comes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new disease is closely related to the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/08/23/captive-breeding-program-may-ensure-survival-for-african-frogs/\">chytrid fungus\u003c/a> that has already driven more than 200 species of frogs to extinction. But instead of frogs, Bsal seems to prefer \u003ca href=\"http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/salamander-newt\">salamanders and newts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an animal gets infected, the fungus invades its skin and starts eroding the cells away. And if salamanders lose skin, they’re toast. That’s because they take in water, salts and oxygen through their skin. In fact, half of salamander species \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/indiana/journeywithnature/lungless-salamanders.xml\">don’t even have lungs\u003c/a> – they breathe through their skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_154062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154062\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR.jpg\" alt=\"The red-bellied newt, common along the coast in northern California, migrates from upland areas to breed in streams in the spring. It is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by an emerging infectious pathogen.\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR.jpg 3300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red-bellied newt, common along the coast in northern California, migrates from upland areas to breed in streams in the spring. It is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by a fast-spreading pathogen. \u003ccite>(Emanuele Biggi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An outbreak of Bsal could be especially dangerous in North America because this is where over half of the world’s salamander species live, including almost all of the lungless species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"size-full wp-image-154062\">But Yap wanted to see just how dangerous the pathogen might be here. So she mapped out where salamanders live and where the climate would be suitable for Bsal to transmit itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found that salamanders in southern Appalachia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Sierra Nevada will be especially vulnerable to Bsal. And alarmingly, more than 98 percent of potentially infected salamanders enter the country through five ports that are in or near these vulnerable regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A World Without Salamanders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If salamanders have a low public profile, it may be because they’re hard to spot in the wild. “It’s really easy to think that they don’t do anything because a lot of times you don’t even know they’re around,” says Yap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many ecosystems in North America rely on salamanders to keep insect populations in check. They’re also an important food for birds and mammals. Yap says that losing salamanders could cripple the food chain in some places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_154064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163.png\" alt=\"The eastern spotted newt has the most expansive range of any salamander in eastern North America, but its range could contract significantly if there was a Bsal outbreak.\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1234\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163.png 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-400x250.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1440x900.png 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1920x1200.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1180x738.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-960x600.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eastern spotted newt has the most expansive range of any salamander in eastern North America, but its range could contract significantly from a Bsal outbreak. \u003ccite>(Todd Pierson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is absolutely a real threat,” says Brian Todd, an amphibian expert at UC Davis who was not involved with the research. “With any pathogen like this, it only takes one animal getting out to have potentially catastrophic consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd is optimistic that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could enact an immediate ban on salamander imports and that would help stop the spread of Bsal. “We already have policies and institutions in place here in the U.S. that we just have to activate or put to use to try to avert this problem,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks it’s going to be more challenging to regulate salamander trade on a global scale. “It’s unclear who has the mandate at the global level to deal with these issues,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Yap says that people can help stop the spread of the fungus by not buying Asian salamanders, which are the most likely to be infected. She cautions \u003ca href=\"http://www.amphibians.org/salamanderheros/\">current salamander owners \u003c/a>to not release pets into the wild. She also recommends proper disposal of wastewater and testing animals for the fungus.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Scientists say an immediate import ban on pet salamanders is needed to prevent a biodiversity crisis.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704931479,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":795},"headData":{"title":"Killer Fungus Could ‘Devour’ California’s Salamanders | KQED","description":"Scientists say an immediate import ban on pet salamanders is needed to prevent a biodiversity crisis.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/154060/killer-fungus-could-devour-californias-salamanders","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If salamanders could worry, they would already have a long list of woes, including losing their homes to deforestation, or becoming an avian snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a newly discovered pathogen could easily trump anything on that list. It’s a fungus whose scientific name, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://amphibiaweb.org:8000/chytrid/Bsal.html\">Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, literally means “salamander-devouring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the fungus, which scientists call Bsal, has only been found in Europe and Asia. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aab1052\">a study\u003c/a> published last week in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/\">Science\u003c/a> suggests that the international pet trade will most likely spread it to North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very new pathogen, so we don’t know much about it,” says Tiffany Yap, a graduate student at UCLA who led the study in collaboration with amphibian experts from San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley. “What we do know is that it could be incredibly devastating to the salamanders here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, the United States imports hundreds of thousands of salamanders as pets. And the vast majority of these animals could potentially be carrying Bsal. The scientists warn that an immediate ban on salamander trade is necessary to prevent the fungus from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until we can tell that salamanders coming in from other places are free of Bsal, it seems like a logical and important step to prevent them from entering,” says Yap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong class=\"size-full wp-image-154064\">Something Wicked This Way Comes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new disease is closely related to the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/08/23/captive-breeding-program-may-ensure-survival-for-african-frogs/\">chytrid fungus\u003c/a> that has already driven more than 200 species of frogs to extinction. But instead of frogs, Bsal seems to prefer \u003ca href=\"http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/salamander-newt\">salamanders and newts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an animal gets infected, the fungus invades its skin and starts eroding the cells away. And if salamanders lose skin, they’re toast. That’s because they take in water, salts and oxygen through their skin. In fact, half of salamander species \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/indiana/journeywithnature/lungless-salamanders.xml\">don’t even have lungs\u003c/a> – they breathe through their skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_154062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154062\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR.jpg\" alt=\"The red-bellied newt, common along the coast in northern California, migrates from upland areas to breed in streams in the spring. It is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by an emerging infectious pathogen.\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR.jpg 3300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/yap3HR-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red-bellied newt, common along the coast in northern California, migrates from upland areas to breed in streams in the spring. It is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by a fast-spreading pathogen. \u003ccite>(Emanuele Biggi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An outbreak of Bsal could be especially dangerous in North America because this is where over half of the world’s salamander species live, including almost all of the lungless species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"size-full wp-image-154062\">But Yap wanted to see just how dangerous the pathogen might be here. So she mapped out where salamanders live and where the climate would be suitable for Bsal to transmit itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found that salamanders in southern Appalachia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Sierra Nevada will be especially vulnerable to Bsal. And alarmingly, more than 98 percent of potentially infected salamanders enter the country through five ports that are in or near these vulnerable regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A World Without Salamanders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If salamanders have a low public profile, it may be because they’re hard to spot in the wild. “It’s really easy to think that they don’t do anything because a lot of times you don’t even know they’re around,” says Yap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many ecosystems in North America rely on salamanders to keep insect populations in check. They’re also an important food for birds and mammals. Yap says that losing salamanders could cripple the food chain in some places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_154064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163.png\" alt=\"The eastern spotted newt has the most expansive range of any salamander in eastern North America, but its range could contract significantly if there was a Bsal outbreak.\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1234\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163.png 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-400x250.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1440x900.png 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1920x1200.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-1180x738.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/07/96163-960x600.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eastern spotted newt has the most expansive range of any salamander in eastern North America, but its range could contract significantly from a Bsal outbreak. \u003ccite>(Todd Pierson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is absolutely a real threat,” says Brian Todd, an amphibian expert at UC Davis who was not involved with the research. “With any pathogen like this, it only takes one animal getting out to have potentially catastrophic consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd is optimistic that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could enact an immediate ban on salamander imports and that would help stop the spread of Bsal. “We already have policies and institutions in place here in the U.S. that we just have to activate or put to use to try to avert this problem,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks it’s going to be more challenging to regulate salamander trade on a global scale. “It’s unclear who has the mandate at the global level to deal with these issues,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Yap says that people can help stop the spread of the fungus by not buying Asian salamanders, which are the most likely to be infected. She cautions \u003ca href=\"http://www.amphibians.org/salamanderheros/\">current salamander owners \u003c/a>to not release pets into the wild. She also recommends proper disposal of wastewater and testing animals for the fungus.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/154060/killer-fungus-could-devour-californias-salamanders","authors":["8639"],"categories":["science_30","science_35"],"tags":["science_2544"],"featImg":"science_154061","label":"science"},"science_41112":{"type":"posts","id":"science_41112","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"41112","score":null,"sort":[1434049248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"where-are-the-ants-carrying-all-those-leaves","title":"Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?","publishDate":1434049248,"format":"video","headTitle":"Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1935,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]If you’ve ever visited the rainforest exhibit at the \u003ca href=\"http://calacademy.org/?utm_expid=12551229-31.Z5QmE7CSRWmG4C8fP4hc2Q.0\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> in San Francisco, or walked in a real rainforest in Central or South America, you might have wondered what the ants do with all those leaf pieces they’re carrying like little parasols in a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that they’re eating the leaves,” said Cal Academy assistant curator Kristen Natoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants use their mandibles to quickly cut leaf pieces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants use their mandibles to quickly cut leaf pieces. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That assumption would be wrong. Though the ants drink the sap in the leaves for energy, they don’t eat them. Instead, they use the leaves to grow something else. These ants, known as leafcutters, are some of the world’s earliest and most competent farmers. They use those leaf pieces to feed a fungus that grows in white tufts in their nests. The fungus provides sustenance to the ants and their brood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Academy is planning to boost its leafcutter ants’ exhibit so that visitors have an easier time watching the tiny farmers at work. The ant colony is of the species \u003cem>Atta cephalotes\u003c/em> – one of 50 leafcutter species in the Americas, the only region in the world where they’re found. It was brought to the Bay Area from Trinidad by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/brian-fisher\">Brian Fisher\u003c/a>, chair of the Academy’s Department of Entomology. The ants currently carry leaf pieces inside a plastic tube about 8 feet long. The expanded exhibit will give visitors a better view and also make things more exciting for the ants. As it turns out, even ants need some excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The California Academy of Sciences plans to revamp its leafcutter ant exhibit to make it more exciting for visitors and ants alike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Academy of Sciences plans to revamp its leafcutter ant exhibit to make it more exciting for visitors and ants alike. \u003ccite>(Kristen Natoli/California Academy of Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the open they’d be exploring the forest for new sources of leaf material, new spaces to open nest chambers,” said Natoli, who cares for the Cal Academy colony. “So if they have more length to carry the leaves, and the path goes up and down, it makes for a more enriching environment for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you bundled together all the ants in the world, there would be more of them than people – they’re the dominant biomass, said Fisher. This is because all 30,000 species of ants are social.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ant nests, made of leaf pieces and fungus, can be as large as a room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ant nests, made of leaf pieces and fungus, can be as large as a room. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They have many ways of making a living,” said Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For humans, farming was the origin of civilization. And it’s the same for ants. They’re fungus tycoons. Their colonies are true underground cities, some the size of a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a reliable source of food has given them the ability to specialize. Leafcutters have the most complex division of labor of any ants. Colonies, which are all female, include tiny worker ants, large worker ants and half-inch-long soldiers with huge heads that protect the colony from other ant species that survive by stealing leafcutters’ larvae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Soldier ants protect leafcutter colonies from ants that try to steal their larvae.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldier ants protect leafcutter colonies from ants that try to steal their larvae. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farming has made leafcutters especially good at making a living. When it comes to agriculture, the ants make humans look like newbies. While humans started farming about 12,000 years ago, ants have been doing it for 60 million years. Humans have plows and shovels, while leafcutters use their mandibles to cut through leaves with incredible speed, leaving telltale crescent shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the ants haul the leaf pieces through fields or forests to their underground nests. For a human, this feat would be the equivalent of carrying more than 600 pounds between our teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they’re back in their nests, ants clean the leaves, crush them, cut them into little pieces and arrange them carefully in stacks. They even compost the leaves by squirting them with a few drops of fecal liquid. Enzymes from the fungus they eat pass through the ants’ digestive system and into their feces, which then help break down the leaf pieces to make them easier for the fungus to feed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants clean their fungus to keep it free of other fungi that could hurt it. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants clean their fungus to keep it free of other fungi that could hurt it. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next step in the farming process is for the ants to spread fungus spores around, much like a human farmer would sow seeds. Once the fungus starts to grow, ants preen it to keep it free from bacteria and other fungi. They also protect the fungus by covering it with bacteria they carry on their own bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ants produce bacteria on little patches on their body,” said Fisher. “They produce the chemical that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to keep their fungus farms going, leafcutters need a steady supply of leaves and petals. This is why from Texas to South America leafcutters are considered agricultural pests. Working stealthily at night, they can strip an entire tree of its best leaves in just hours. While they’re pests to farmers, they also perform an essential environmental function in the tropics, by building up the soil in the rainforest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants need so many leaves to keep their fungus farms going that they're considered agricultural pests. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants need so many leaves to keep their fungus farms going that they’re considered agricultural pests. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the Cal Academy will likely be able to appreciate leafcutters’ farming abilities a little better when the exhibit has been improved. The timeline for the changes hasn’t been decided yet, said Natoli. But one thing is sure not to change: Visitors won’t be able to see the queen. She lives in a box in the back area of the Academy, cared for by Natoli herself, who refers to her with the respect one might develop for a three-quarter-inch-long ant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call her \u003cem>The\u003c/em> queen,” said Natoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Trinidad, the queen started up the colony. She brought with her a bit of fungus from her parent colony, stored in a pouch, as well as sperm that she collected during a frenzied mating fly-out. She continues to reproduce during the life of her colony, and when she dies, after 10 to 20 years, the hard-working colony starts to die out too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To see leafcutter ants in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can also visit the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandzoo.org/\">Oakland Zoo\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ants don’t eat leaves. They use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704931694,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1090},"headData":{"title":"Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves? | KQED","description":"Ants don’t eat leaves. They use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oKJ5FGk24","sticky":false,"path":"/science/41112/where-are-the-ants-carrying-all-those-leaves","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you’ve ever visited the rainforest exhibit at the \u003ca href=\"http://calacademy.org/?utm_expid=12551229-31.Z5QmE7CSRWmG4C8fP4hc2Q.0\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> in San Francisco, or walked in a real rainforest in Central or South America, you might have wondered what the ants do with all those leaf pieces they’re carrying like little parasols in a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that they’re eating the leaves,” said Cal Academy assistant curator Kristen Natoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants use their mandibles to quickly cut leaf pieces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_at_work.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants use their mandibles to quickly cut leaf pieces. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That assumption would be wrong. Though the ants drink the sap in the leaves for energy, they don’t eat them. Instead, they use the leaves to grow something else. These ants, known as leafcutters, are some of the world’s earliest and most competent farmers. They use those leaf pieces to feed a fungus that grows in white tufts in their nests. The fungus provides sustenance to the ants and their brood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Academy is planning to boost its leafcutter ants’ exhibit so that visitors have an easier time watching the tiny farmers at work. The ant colony is of the species \u003cem>Atta cephalotes\u003c/em> – one of 50 leafcutter species in the Americas, the only region in the world where they’re found. It was brought to the Bay Area from Trinidad by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/brian-fisher\">Brian Fisher\u003c/a>, chair of the Academy’s Department of Entomology. The ants currently carry leaf pieces inside a plastic tube about 8 feet long. The expanded exhibit will give visitors a better view and also make things more exciting for the ants. As it turns out, even ants need some excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The California Academy of Sciences plans to revamp its leafcutter ant exhibit to make it more exciting for visitors and ants alike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Natoli_Cal_Academy_leafcutter_ant_exhibit_01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Academy of Sciences plans to revamp its leafcutter ant exhibit to make it more exciting for visitors and ants alike. \u003ccite>(Kristen Natoli/California Academy of Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the open they’d be exploring the forest for new sources of leaf material, new spaces to open nest chambers,” said Natoli, who cares for the Cal Academy colony. “So if they have more length to carry the leaves, and the path goes up and down, it makes for a more enriching environment for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you bundled together all the ants in the world, there would be more of them than people – they’re the dominant biomass, said Fisher. This is because all 30,000 species of ants are social.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ant nests, made of leaf pieces and fungus, can be as large as a room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_nest.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ant nests, made of leaf pieces and fungus, can be as large as a room. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They have many ways of making a living,” said Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For humans, farming was the origin of civilization. And it’s the same for ants. They’re fungus tycoons. Their colonies are true underground cities, some the size of a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a reliable source of food has given them the ability to specialize. Leafcutters have the most complex division of labor of any ants. Colonies, which are all female, include tiny worker ants, large worker ants and half-inch-long soldiers with huge heads that protect the colony from other ant species that survive by stealing leafcutters’ larvae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Soldier ants protect leafcutter colonies from ants that try to steal their larvae.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Soldier_ant.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldier ants protect leafcutter colonies from ants that try to steal their larvae. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farming has made leafcutters especially good at making a living. When it comes to agriculture, the ants make humans look like newbies. While humans started farming about 12,000 years ago, ants have been doing it for 60 million years. Humans have plows and shovels, while leafcutters use their mandibles to cut through leaves with incredible speed, leaving telltale crescent shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the ants haul the leaf pieces through fields or forests to their underground nests. For a human, this feat would be the equivalent of carrying more than 600 pounds between our teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they’re back in their nests, ants clean the leaves, crush them, cut them into little pieces and arrange them carefully in stacks. They even compost the leaves by squirting them with a few drops of fecal liquid. Enzymes from the fungus they eat pass through the ants’ digestive system and into their feces, which then help break down the leaf pieces to make them easier for the fungus to feed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants clean their fungus to keep it free of other fungi that could hurt it. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ant_tends_fungus.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants clean their fungus to keep it free of other fungi that could hurt it. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next step in the farming process is for the ants to spread fungus spores around, much like a human farmer would sow seeds. Once the fungus starts to grow, ants preen it to keep it free from bacteria and other fungi. They also protect the fungus by covering it with bacteria they carry on their own bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ants produce bacteria on little patches on their body,” said Fisher. “They produce the chemical that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to keep their fungus farms going, leafcutters need a steady supply of leaves and petals. This is why from Texas to South America leafcutters are considered agricultural pests. Working stealthily at night, they can strip an entire tree of its best leaves in just hours. While they’re pests to farmers, they also perform an essential environmental function in the tropics, by building up the soil in the rainforest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leafcutter ants need so many leaves to keep their fungus farms going that they're considered agricultural pests. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ants_at_work.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leafcutter ants need so many leaves to keep their fungus farms going that they’re considered agricultural pests. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the Cal Academy will likely be able to appreciate leafcutters’ farming abilities a little better when the exhibit has been improved. The timeline for the changes hasn’t been decided yet, said Natoli. But one thing is sure not to change: Visitors won’t be able to see the queen. She lives in a box in the back area of the Academy, cared for by Natoli herself, who refers to her with the respect one might develop for a three-quarter-inch-long ant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call her \u003cem>The\u003c/em> queen,” said Natoli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Trinidad, the queen started up the colony. She brought with her a bit of fungus from her parent colony, stored in a pouch, as well as sperm that she collected during a frenzied mating fly-out. She continues to reproduce during the life of her colony, and when she dies, after 10 to 20 years, the hard-working colony starts to die out too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To see leafcutter ants in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can also visit the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandzoo.org/\">Oakland Zoo\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/41112/where-are-the-ants-carrying-all-those-leaves","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_30","science_86"],"tags":["science_986","science_1970","science_64","science_2544","science_5192"],"featImg":"science_43857","label":"science_1935"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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