New Zealand Fungi

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DSC_9014 West Coast giant forest weta (Hemideina broughi) dead female killed by the entomopathogenic Sugar icing fungus (Beauvaria bassiana) and discovered by Rod on Mount Rochfort in February 2012, during the Bioblitz organised by Forest and Bird to 'Save Denniston Plateau'. Beauveria bassiana is the anamorph (asexually reproducing form) of Cordyceps bassiana. The latter teleomorph (the sexually reproducing form of this fungus) has been collected only in eastern Asia.*

West coast forest weta DSC_9014 tree Hemideina entomopathogenic fungus White muscardine Cordyceps Beauvaria bassiana fungus Mount Rochfort broughi male taipo North West Nelson denniston plateau mount rockfort