These compounds appear to play a role in defending sclerotia from attack by fungivorous insects.
The members of the tripunctata species group have diverse feeding habits; some are fungivorous and some are ground feeders associated with fallen flowers, small fruits, and decaying pulpy vegetation.
The goal of this study was to manage the soil food web to enhance population levels of microbivorous and fungivorous nematodes in the spring so that their feeding would release N immobilized in the primary decomposer biomass.
Hundreds of California species either feed directly upon the e decomposer fungi, or predate the fungivorous taxa.
The appearance of only a few predaceous snare building insects among the Mycetophilidae, of which about two thousand species are known to be mostly fungivorous, is in itself remarkable.
It possesses a central columella that is rich in lipids and is a choice food item for fungivorous mammals.
We are studying the ecology of two groups of obligately fungivorous insects, cecid flies, and ciid beetles.
Finding sporocarps may be time consuming, which would contribute to the assumed high degree of polyphagy in fungivorous insects in general.
Definition of fungivorous in US English:
fungivorous
adjectiveˌfənˈjivərəs
Feeding on fungi or mushrooms.
食真菌(或蘑菇)的
a fungivorous arthropod such as a millipede
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It possesses a central columella that is rich in lipids and is a choice food item for fungivorous mammals.
We are studying the ecology of two groups of obligately fungivorous insects, cecid flies, and ciid beetles.
The goal of this study was to manage the soil food web to enhance population levels of microbivorous and fungivorous nematodes in the spring so that their feeding would release N immobilized in the primary decomposer biomass.
The members of the tripunctata species group have diverse feeding habits; some are fungivorous and some are ground feeders associated with fallen flowers, small fruits, and decaying pulpy vegetation.
Finding sporocarps may be time consuming, which would contribute to the assumed high degree of polyphagy in fungivorous insects in general.
These compounds appear to play a role in defending sclerotia from attack by fungivorous insects.
The appearance of only a few predaceous snare building insects among the Mycetophilidae, of which about two thousand species are known to be mostly fungivorous, is in itself remarkable.
Hundreds of California species either feed directly upon the e decomposer fungi, or predate the fungivorous taxa.