#cibarium

[zeejeythedoodler]

"could you tell me if the name 'Cantus Proctor' rings a bell?"

"not until you pay your tab."

Finally found a digital painting method that works for me! (That is to say, throwing everything at the canvas as fast as possible with little rhyme or reason)

[zeejeythedoodler]

I love this so much! Thank you 💕💕

bweirdOCtober 25: COMMUNITY

A return present to @zeejeythedoodler !

I love how silly Ara looks when she falls in love haha.

[mycoblogg]

Can you do a stinkhorn for FOTD? - 🩰

FOTD #010 : white basket! (ileodictyon cibarium)

the white basket fungus is a stinkhorn from the family phallaceae. it is native to australia & new zealand, & is known among the māori people by over 35 different names !! it grows alone or clustered together near woody debris, in lawns, gardens, & cultivated soil, along roads, in forest.

the big question : can i bite it?? eating this fungus is not recommended, due to its foul stench (often compared to rotting flesh).

i. cibrarium description :

"prior to the opening of the outer skin, the fruit body is egg-shaped & white to greyish. After opening, it is a whitish mesh-like ball measuring up to 25 cm in diameter."

[images : source & source] [fungus description : source]

"thank you anon !! i hope you like her :-) this is one of my favourite stinkhorns."

[agaricomycete]

Ileodictyon cibarium

[transgenderer]

Before departing on her mating flight, each Atta queen packs a small wad of mycelia of the symbiotic fungus into her infrabuccal pocket (cibarium), a cavity located beneath the opening of the esophagus. Following the nuptial flight, the queen casts off her wings and excavates a nest chamber in the soil. This incipient nest consists of a narrow entrance gallery that descends 20 to 30 centimeters to a single chamber about 6 centimeters in length. The queen now spits out the mycelial wad and feeds it with her first eggs, which then serves as an inoculum to start a new fungus garden. By the third day, fresh mycelia have begun to grow, and the queen has laid three to six eggs. 39 At the end of the first month, the brood, now consisting of eggs, larvae, and perhaps pupae, is embedded in the center of a mat of proliferating fungus. During this initial phase of colony foundation, the queen cultivates the fungus garden herself, mainly by fertilizing the garden with fecal liquid. The queen consumes 90 percent of the eggs she lays. When the first larvae hatch, they are also fed with eggs. Apparently, the queen does not feed on the initial fungus culture, which is very fragile. If the queen fails to build up a healthy fungus garden, the whole colony-founding process is doomed. Instead, the queen subsists entirely on her own fat-body reserves and by catabolizing her now useless wing muscles.

When the first workers eclose, they begin to feed on the fungus, and they take over the fungus culture activities. The egg-laying rate of the queen now increases. Not all her eggs are viable; some are large trophic eggs formed in the oviduct by the fusion of two or more distinct but malformed eggs. These are given by workers to developing larvae. After a week or so, the young workers open the clogged nest entrance and start foraging in the immediate vicinity. They collect bits of leaves, which they add to the substrate of the fungus culture. By this time, the queen has ceased attending to the brood and fungus garden and has become an "egg-laying machine,"  a role she will keep for the rest of her long life. The queen is constantly surrounded by workers who groom and feed her with worker-laid trophic eggs. Indeed, the queen is the most precious part of the colony (see Plate 15). She is the reproductive unit of the superorganism. If she dies, the colony is doomed. The workers have assumed all "somatic"  duties of the colony: foraging, caring for the fungus garden, raising the brood, extending the nest structures, and defending the colony against predators and competitors.

Civilization by Instinct, E. O. Wilson

this is crazy right. feeding her larva and her fungus with her own eggs. which i guess are essentially just her fat reserves (in more digestible fecal form for the fungus), cuz shes not eating anything else. and then THEY feed her THEIR eggs. acid trip material

[revretch]

It's a hell of a thing to find sources right now, so you're going to have to take my word for it that this is a cross-section of a cicada head, and that it also works this way for adults. You can see the cibarium (the inside of the mouth, or more properly a cavity in front of it) has this big chunk of muscle above it that works as a pump to draw fluid up through the beak, which is formed by the usual insect mouthparts!

OP made this post unrebloggable but me and my bf made this meme in a fit of obsession and it had to be shared

[life-around-me-yura15cbx]

Ileodictyon cibarium is a saprotrophic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. It is native to Australia and New Zealand, where it is commonly known as the basket fungus or the white basket fungus, alluding to its fruit bodies, shaped like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches, resembling polyhedra similar to closed fullerenes.

Илеодиктион съедобный (Клатрус белый), Семейство: Phallaceae (Весёлковые). сперва из земли появляются крупные, до 7 см, слизистые «яйца», одетые в белую сетку из крупных ячеек, которая со временем раскрывается, как детская игрушка, образуя полый «мяч». Запах у гриба отвратительно-гнилостный. Многие весёлки съедобны в стадии «яйца», и даже обладают лечебными свойствами, а неприятным запахом они обзаводятся только во взрослом состоянии, для привлечения мух. Так и корзиночник белый: вполне съедобен в стадии «яйца».

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Hericium coralloides

Weird and Wonderful Fungi Pictures

Photographer: Bernard Spragg

Earthstars Geastrum

Clavulina rugosa (coral fungi)

Ileodictyon cibarium (basket fungi)

[zeejeythedoodler]

Here's a closer look at Atom from that group pic because I am very happy with how they came out =:3

[thiswillnotdo]

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[sonohban]

Oh this is something I'm awfully excited to ask you but I keep on forgetting!! But anyway, if you'll create an alien race based on bugs in dragon ball how would you go about it? Like what would be the most important detail do you think they should have? (I want to ask you about specifics of that race too but I don't want to pressure you on answering since I'm sure that would be long. Just an idea of what an alien bug race can be would be awesome!)

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT QUESTION..... because it makes me think so hard i can't think of anything conclusively :') first up is- would this insect race be one species? one family? one order? or just a mix of all different kinds? there's literally around a million insect species and almost 30 orders that are INCREDIBLY diverse in form. i don't want to paste every single example here but here's just the silhouettes to give you an idea!!

(deep longing sigh, a graphic from one of my favorite papers by misof et al. 2014)

but also i could just. make up a new bug entirely?? 😳 like just smash together my favorite characteristics from across the insect world... what sounds good to me atm is cool wings (i like plain membranous more than the scaly wings of butterflies/moths, you can get cool patterns with them too), the general horse shape of a mantis/snakefly and sound producing organs (insects make noises in different ways! crickets stridulate by rubbing their wings together, cicadas expand/contract their tymbals, hissing roaches compress air through their spiracles). i like the idea of insects singing to communicate, it's pretty much only to attract mates or scare predators but i think it's a generally romantic idea :'3 i also think it's cool to consider aspects of physiology, like insects have an open circulatory system (their organs are bathed in hemolymph instead of supplied by vessels), they have a more decentralized nervous system (can still get around despite lots of their body missing), they can overwinter, among other things. oh i think i'd also like them to be holometabolous (larva>pupa>adult rather than a nymph that gradually sheds into its adult form) because i want to see proud parents holding their cute little worm babies :3c

in terms of dragon ball i can say what i won't do- toriyama i'm making a callout post on tumblr dot com- there are insects other than cicadas (although i LOVE cicadas) but i am tired of these things

it is a real structure found among the true bugs (order hemiptera, includes aphids, leafhoppers, cicadas, etc.) called a cibarium which basically houses the big muscles the herbivorous members use to suck up plant juices. SUCK, you say?? yeah these things don't have chewing mouthparts so shut your weird beak mouth, cell. you're supposed to be sucking up people with that instead. their mouths have been modified into straw things called a rostrum which you can barely see under the cibarium of that cicada. if i had to make an alien race based off these kinds of bugs, their mouths would remain rostra and i'd definitely have them communicate through sound production only. that would be hella cool.

(also while we're on the cell callout train, cell's wings are based off the shell of a beetle which are technically called elytra but THERE'S ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE MEMBRANOUS NORMAL WINGS UNDERNEATH! insects typically have two pairs of wings and the shell of a beetle is just the hardened first pair.)

hehe sorry that went on for a bit. take some bonus doodles that this inspired although i wouldn't consider these examples of a sentient alien race. i really like snakeflies and think they're adorable OTL

[wyldefungi]

Ileodictyon cibarium

Basket Fungus, NZ

[croakego]

Hello if my followers see this can you pretty please tell me what your fave fungi are, mine are Serpula lacrymans (dry rot) and Ileodictyon cibarium (basket fungus) please please pleaaase tell me i love mycelia

[formlab]

Ileodictyon cibarium

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[monanaism]

🔥shroom

As I am not into the shroom fandom, I do not know if it’s unpopular or not but the Clathrus Ruber is cooler and looks better than the ileodictyon cibarium. 

[zephyro-cloud]

some of my fav weird mushwooms:

devil's fingers (Clathrus archeri)

orange pore fungus (Favolaschia calocera)

alpine jelly cone (Guepiniopsis alpina)

orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia)

Gliophorus graminicolor

earthstars (Geastrum)

stinkhorn fungus (Phallaceae)

basket fungi (Ileodictyon cibarium)

campanella species

wine Glass Fungus (Podoscypha petalodes)

mushwoom check

HII WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME IRIDESCENT SLIME MOLDS

Lamproderma species. i love when stuff on earth looks like it belongs on some other made-up planet