If the fungus can trap them with a loop of its body, or with a sticky bump on its thread like flypaper, it can then eat the nematode. Keddy writes in his 2017 book Plant Ecology: “A short ...

These fungi, which actively target and neutralise parasitic nematodes, operate through mechanisms that include mechanical trapping, enzymatic degradation, and the production of secondary metabolites.

Eighteen bat houses in southern Alberta have been sprayed with a probiotic cocktail, aimed at preventing white-nose syndrome ...

The plots were then infested with fungi and nematodes alone or in combination. Starting at the onset of disease, disease severity was monitored in the differently treated plots.

Nematodes are invisible to the naked eye, but work a treat in getting rid of the pests Credit: amazon Namely the tiny black flies that you find buzzing around or on your house plants - the amount ...

Tiny soil worms called nematodes usually feast on bacteria or algae, and have tiny mouths to suit their diet. But give a baby nematode some fungus and its mouth can as much as double in size ...

Another meat eating fungi named Pleurotus ostreatus or the oyster mushroom even uses a nerve gas as its method of trapping down nematodes. A. oligospora has a different approach.

Unlike us humans, the soil fungus Mortierella alpina has long known a natural trick against nematodes: it produces special molecules that make life difficult for its predators. These surface ...