Appreciation: Sequencing the Fungi of the Ecuadorian Andes

In 2014, myself and a fellow mycologist, Roo Vandegrift, collected some 350 samples of fungi from Reserva Los Cedros; one of the last unlogged watersheds on the western slope of the Andes.

Painstaking work. Also, that English Sheepdog Caterpillar (my nomenclature) at 0:52

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Thanks @allelopath both for the specific story and for telling me about TKSST - neat resource!

 

I do like TKSST. Many more fungus videos, for example:
Life in the soil revealed in claymation shorts by Maxwell Helmberger | The Kid Should See This