A scatter of toadstools across the grass on a damp late-summer morning looks alarming, but it almost never means your lawn is sick. The caps you can see are the fruiting bodies of a fungus that has ...

According to the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, there are more than 6 million species of fungi worldwide, many of which are mushrooms. People tend to confuse them with ...

The soil in a garden is teeming with fungi and their spores. However, gardeners can’t see them and most of the time the spores are dormant just waiting until all the conditions are right for them to ...

Toadstools appear on lawns due to the soil environment like organic debris under the lawn or active spores waiting for the correct conditions. Some people find toadstools attractive on their lawns ...

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. You may be familiar with the red ...