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RE: The Amateur Mycologist - Random Finds - G.Applanatum Cross Section; A Sad H.erinacea; Tiny Scleroderma citrinum ; And... Leaf Galls
Hundred insects eating its guts is like some form of ancient Babylonia torture!
That is just too cruel! I guess it's fate of most edible mushrooms, if it's poisonous those bugs wouldn't dare. Just a guess though.
Unfortunately for even poisonous mushrooms many of the chemicals that would wreck a humab body are no problem at all for other animald and insects. Definitely can't use the presence of ingestion by other life forms as a sign of toxins in either direction