“When James put his slides into the humidity chamber, he had no notion of what these nematodes would be facing, and so no expectation of what he would find. But when the slides came back out, what he observed was something he'd only seen once before, in a drawing done two years ago by one of his close friends, Katelyn Solbakk. In it, you can see a nematode whose body has been clinched into segments by some kind of bulbous... thing. What you're seeing is the fungus' most brutal design. But to get there, it must morph from decomposer to predator--no longer consuming what has already been dead, but actively killing..”
Journey to the Microcosmos- The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs
Nemotode 200x, A trapped nematode 200x, Nemaotde 630x, Nemotode (Untitled), Arthrobotrys growing towards the center of the slide 200x, A trapped nematode 200x
