Sugar icing fungus (1103/2618)
Sugar icing fungus (Beauvieria bassiana) on a chafer beetle (Stethaspis suturalis). The fungus infects the beetle while it is still alive, and when the insect finally succumbs it grows out through gaps in its exoskeleton.
- Scientific name
- Beauvieria bassiana
- Common names
- sugar icing fungus
- Location
- Te Urewera National Park, New Zealand
- Photo ID
- 6854
- Tags
- Beauvieria, Beauvieria bassiana, Coleoptera, fungi, scarab beetle, Scarabaeidae, Stethaspis, Stethaspis suturalis
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